It’s Juan-Les-Pins jazz festival’s half century celebration and it was the Keith Jarrett classic trio’s eleventh in a row here on Wednesday.
The Manchester Jazz Festival gets underway today with its biggest ever line-up to celebrate the event’s 15th anniversary, running through to Saturday 31 July with big names, international flavours and young talent drawing the crowds in, as well as a surprise appearance from latin soul revue Kid Creole and the Coconuts, who will play two successive nights – 27 and 28 July – at the famous Band on the Wall venue.
Trumpeter Harry Beckett has died, reportedly of a stroke, on 22 July.
Tickets go on sale tomorrow for two exclusive Herbie Hancock Royal Festival Hall concerts scheduled for 13 and 14 November, part of this year’s London Jazz Festival held in association with BBC Radio 3.
'Identity By Subtraction', the title track of Denys Baptiste's new album to be scheduled for release later in the year, was played live for the first time last night along with other songs from the new album.
WOMAD opens for three full days of world music, arts and dance at the weekend (after some initial concerts tomorrow) running through from Friday to Sunday with two new names added to the bill now including Angélique Kidjo and Sierra Maestra.
Golden, the debut album by the Kit Downes Trio has been nominated for this year’s Mercury prize.
This year’s Malta Jazz Festival wrapped on a high on Saturday night with an intriguingly diverse triple bill that contrasted the mellow chamber jazz of local hero Charles ‘City’ Gatt with the quirky high-wire improvisation of the Ari Hoenig Trio and the turbo-charged Afro-Latin electric jazz wallop of Cameroonian bassmeister, Richard Bona (left).
Just six years old when he picked up the trumpet Matthew Halsall has his parents to thank for taking him to his first jazz gig.
The doors are opening to the Bath Jazz 'n' Blues Festival, which gets underway on Sunday 18 July for one day only, beginning at noon and ending at 10pm with interesting acts on the two stages at the Green Park Station in Bath.
