Necks drummer and percussionist Tony Buck is on the road again in November with the up-for-it free blowing saxophone player Tony Bevan, the raw unbridled talent of pianist Matthew Bourne, and rare sightings by the bassist Barre Phillips, remembered for his unaccompanied solo bass records and The Trio.
Since 1992, a few years before the Internet began to dominate our lives – when the first edition of what is now known as the Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook and Brian Morton was first published – the book has been eagerly awaited every two years for each updated edition.
Directed by Tommy Smith with special guest Arild Andersen the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra celebrate the music of ECM later this month with a raft of dates.
Birthday gigs take all shapes and forms.
This was a tale of deeply seated relationships, contrasting characters and powerful narratives, otherwise known as Peter Brötzmann's Full Blast Trio plus Ken Vandermark on the closing night of their Cafe Oto residency in east London.
Later this autumn the animated film Chico and Rita mainly set in the Havana and New York of the 1940s opens in cinemas.
A major new 10-part documentary series Jazz Junctions, presented by renowned UK trumpeter Guy Barker, will be aired early next month on BBC Radio 2.
The leading jazz singer of her generation Cassandra Wilson who last year won the Grammy for best female vocals for her album Loverly, returns this autumn.
Brad Mehldau returns with the release of a new collaboration, for the first time on a recording, with the famed Swedish mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter who has recently been playing the role of Brangäne in Peter Sellars’ production of Tristan and Isolde.
The Royal Academy of Music has appointed Django Bates visiting professor of jazz.