There has been Gypsy fusion jazz as long as there has been jazz, so unlike some of the newer jazz hybrids, hearing modern gypsy jazz is a re-acquaintance rather than a discovery.
Names from across the jazz and rock music worlds are set to celebrate revered British pianist Stan Tracey’s 70 years as a professional musician at a special musical tribute concert at London’s iconic 100 Club on Monday 18 November.
Jazz vocal enthusiasts are in for their annual treat when the fourth edition of Georgia Mancio’s acclaimed 10-day ReVoice! vocal festival returns this weekend and runs from 10 to 19 October.
The Gateshead International Jazz Festival, which runs from 4-6 April 2014, has just announced it’s set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style with big name headliners as part of a striking American-led programme.
Two floors below street level in London’s Camden Market lurks a bewildering venue that’s as bizarrely exotic as it is undeniably compelling to gaze at its ostentatiously ornate walls, ceilings and huge African statues.
The 22nd Marsden Jazz Festival, which runs from 11-13 October in the Pennine village of Marsden in West Yorkshire, mixes up smooth crossover swing and wild synth madness with headline performances from Pasadena Roof Orchestra and a new suite ‘The Bourne Synthesiser Show’ written for jazz synthesiser created specially for the festival by wildly virtuosic keyboardist Matthew Bourne (pictured).
If evidence were needed that Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat, has made the art of Stanley Clarke-style electric bass shredding fashionable again then surely the 600 or so fans who turned up to greet him at Hoxton’s hip warehouse venue Village Underground last Sunday provided it in abundance.
The retina scorching, psychedelic sights, if not quite the sounds, of New York’s legendary Fillmore East venue circa 1969 came to the Barbican on Friday night when the Joshua Light Show made its UK debut accompanying two interpretations of Terry Riley’s iconic 1964 minimalist piece, ‘In C’, performed by Matthew Herbert and Berlin-based Pantha du Prince.
Troyk-estra – the expanded big band version of Kit Downes, Chris Montague and Joshua Blackmore’s acclaimed prog-jazz band Troyka – are set to release a live album taken from their barnstorming performance at this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival in May (pictured above).
Fans of iconic pianist Keith Jarrett are in for an early Christmas present in the form of two extended and previously unreleased 1980s albums that are to be issued in the same week in mid-November on ECM.
