Saxophonist Tommy Smith’s new band Karma debuts at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival in the city’s venue The Hub in Castlehill this evening.
With the Brecon Jazz Festival now just three days away, the organisers have announced a series of musician workshops and a concert by students of the Royal Welsh College jazz summer school together with news about this year’s festival fringe, which begins a day earlier this Thursday.
The 19th Marsden Jazz Festival line-up has just been confirmed.
Martin Drew, the world-class British drummer who worked for Ronnie Scott for two decades and Oscar Peterson for three, died yesterday.
The Ronnie Scott’s Brit Jazz Fest, supported by Jazzwise, gets underway tomorrow and runs until 14 August, celebrating many of the very best sounds coming out of the British jazz scene at the moment.
Charles Lloyd has a new studio album, Mirror, released by ECM on 27 September featuring his current “New Quartet”, pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland.
The shocking death of drummer Chris Dagley at 38 has robbed British jazz of one of its most respected and best-liked performers.
It was third time lucky for Courtney Pine last night at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in London as he completed the second night of a short residency having played the club for the first time in 2007 during the Jazzwise To The Power of Ten festival.
Edinburgh celebrates 60 years of jazz in the city with the 2010 Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, which begins on Friday and runs until Sunday 8 August.
Renowned Edinburgh venue The Jazz Bar will be putting on an experimental piece called ‘Five Beats In A Bar’ during the annual Fringe Festival from 9-15 August.
