In keeping with their penchant for innovation and drama, the Neil Cowley Trio have a little something special planned to mark the end of their marathon Radio Silence tour.
Celebrity career-rescuing exercises in the name of Saturday night TV entertainment and the misty-eyed, black and white nostalgia of yesteryear may have done much to stereotype public perceptions of jazz dancing.
Walking along the banks of the river Lee yesterday on a moonlit night, you could see a bustling city full of light and life as the Cork Jazz Festival, which comes to a conclusion this evening, moved into full swing.
Blues People, written by Leroi Jones, is one of the most important books written about jazz in the 1960s.
With an extraordinary line-up this year, the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival stands tall in the company of the big city European jazz festivals running this autumn with the main Barcelona jazz fest concerts on the horizon and preceding Jazz Fest Berlin and the London Jazz Festival next month.
Liverpool’s Echo Arena hosted last night’s MOBOs and while the atmosphere there was hotting up and certain members of the audience seemed fit to burst, such was the excitement, presenter Reggie Yates had more things on his mind apart from chatting to Alesha Dixon and preening himself for the cameras.
Located on the fringes of the labyrinth of High Fidelity-style record shops, cult boutiques and vegan-friendly juice bars that embody Brighton’s trendy Lanes district, the Brighton Dome’s programme for the coming month includes a generous selection of jazz gigs.
The best jazz act category at tomorrow’s MOBOs taking place in Liverpool is a tough one to call.
A very gallant jazz club audience member was quick off the mark when in a flash he rescued a sprawling Mina Agossi, not long into her opening set, from the floor of the Pizza Express Jazz Club bandstand on Sunday night.
Jazz fans in Scotland can look forward to a star-studded autumn programme of concerts and club dates promoted by Jazz Scotland.