Jazz breaking news: It’s Witchcraft As Leon Parker Returns
- Monday, October 18, 2010
Some jazz guys just disappear.
Some jazz guys just disappear.
Whoever said Indian ragas and The Beach Boys can’t mix? Sceptical listeners should head to Rich Mix in Shoreditch tomorrow night as Amit Chaudhuri performs material from his latest album Found Music ahead of its release next week.
As In The City continues, Band On The Wall, fast becoming the leading jazz club in the north west with a growing national reputation as well, ramps up for a high profile November with some key jazz bookings.
Home to the world’s oldest football and Braveheart’s sword, Stirling in Scotland plays host this weekend to some of the world’s most inventive avant-garde jazz musicians at the Le Weekend festival which begins tomorrow.
How close is close enough for jazz? It’s a thought even Herbie Hancock has mused on, when he told Jazzwise earlier in the summer that the singer Kristina Train he has been touring with is “in her own way as much a jazz singer as Norah Jones is, kind of hybrid with her own material and her own record.
After a decade of all-out sonic warfare on the London jazz scene, Acoustic Ladyland are to deliver a ferocious parting shot with their upcoming nationwide tour in just under a month’s time before undergoing a self-imposed musical makeover.
A bungee jumper has a lot in common with a jazz musician who forms a group without a piano or guitar as harmony instrument.
Picture the scene: a busy jam session after hours last year during the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
The piano trio might well be one of the key improvising units in jazz.
The fashionably hip Roof Gardens Club in Kensington plays host to a new programme of exclusive Saturday night gigs over the coming weeks, presented by Jazz FM.