Alto saxophone legend Peter King played two sets in a quartet setting of mostly hard bop tunes at the 606 club in London last Saturday night.
Now in its third year the Hop Farm Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent, showed that festivals don’t have to sell their soul to corporate branding and sponsorship to pull off one of the musical delights of the summer.
Alto saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch ends his four-year hiatus from the studio this September with the release of bold new album entitled The New Emancipation.
A dazzling smorgasbord of scat, vocalese, poetry and stream of consciousness, Kurt Elling’s first ever residency at Ronnie Scott’s achieved immediate lift-off last night.
The Trevor Watkis quintet played a rare gig at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in London the night before last, the pianist's introduction establishing what turned out to be an easy-going, friendly atmosphere, continued by the band’s stage presence.
With music by Julian Joseph and a libretto by Mike Phillips, last night at the Mermaid in Blackfriars saw the première of the jazz opera Shadowball, the second such collaboration following their work together on Bridgetower three years ago.
Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith's new band Tommy Smith Karma is set to debut at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival in the city’s venue The Hub in Castlehill on 4 August.
The biggest jazz festival in Europe, the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam annually pulls in most of the major jazz talent in the world, crammed in over three days.
Among a number of high-ranking pianists in New York this week — McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarrett, Junior Mance, Cyrus Chestnut, Eric Reed, Gerald Clayton, Hiromi — Herbie Hancock commanded the biggest ticket prices.
Saxophonist Fred Anderson died yesterday aged 81.
