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NEWS: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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FEATURES: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Keith Jarrett Trio, with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette is to be celebrated by the German record label ECM on 28 January 2008 when it releases Setting Standards (a reissue of Standards Vols 1 & 2), and Changes, the first issue in a new series called ECM: 24. 26.11.07 
The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival kicked off on 27 July and runs through until 5 August with a substantial programme. Highlights of the festival include US drum master Jeff Tain Watts, ex-Miles Davis drummer Al Foster, New Orleans great Dr John, genre bending jazz trio The Bad Plus, Scottish award winning trumpeter Colin Steele, British R&B legend Georgie Fame, saxophonists Courtney Pine and Tommy Smith in a special Coltrane-themed concert, guitarist Martin Taylor, pianist Brian Kellock and trombonist Chris Barber. 30.07.07 
The Leeds International Jazz Conference, with its theme this year of "Jazz: Inside & Outside" takes place next week from 22-24 March. The annual event focuses on jazz research, education and performance and is the only conference of its kind in the UK. 14.03.07 
Pianist Elan Mehler (pictured) made quite an impact last year in the UK with his startlingly contemplative drummerless debut album Scheme For Thought. He's due to come back for a club date later this month in London with a quartet plus guest singer Jose James, who builds on the sound of Andy Bey channelled through the spirit of Gil Scott-Heron for a new jazz generation.
02.01.08 
BBC4 is to screen a documentary celebrating the life and work of Ella Fitzgerald tomorrow. It's part of the Legends series which has previously featured Charlie Parker, Nat King Cole, Maria Callas and Edith Piaf among others. 15.11.07 
Empirical is one of the UK’s hottest new jazz groups, enthusiastically supported by Courtney Pine, whose Destin-E record label releases their debut album this month. The band consists of Jay Phelps on trumpet, Nathaniel Facey on alto sax, Kit Downes on piano, Tom Farmer on double bass and Shane Forbes on drums and their unique blend of jazz tradition with a high-energy contemporary edge garnered an impressive response when they appeared supporting Courtney Pine at the Jazzwise to the Power of Ten festival. 24.04.07 
Hot on the heels of winning the Jazzwise Album Of The Year accolade with its eponymous debut, London band Empirical has won another award. This time it’s the Peter Whittingham Jazz Award, worth £4,000, which will be used to cover the costs of recording and promoting a further album of original music. Previous recent winners have included pianist David O’Brien of the group Porpoise Corpus, post Prime Time-pioneers Led Bib and Soweto Kinch who used his prize to record the ingenious rap ‘Jazz Planet’.
12.12.07 
Hotly tipped UK group Empirical won the EBU European Jazz Competition in Rotterdam at the weekend. Held during the North Sea Jazz Festival the group was pitted against several leading young groups from all over Europe. The group's eponymous debut album is only released today, but already the group has received critical plaudits for its live club and festival performances and has been helped immeasurably by the support of Courtney Pine who signed the group to his own label, Destin-e records. 16.07.07 This year’s Swanage Jazz Festival, which is to take place from 11-13 July, continues to cover a wide spectrum of UK jazz from the very traditional through to contemporary. Returning for its nineteenth year, highlights include Empirical (pictured), Dave Stapleton’s Quartet and the Paul Towndrow Quartet.
One of the festival’s special features this year is tribute bands: Alan Barnes’ new Johnny Hodges tribute Woodville All Stars, Arnie Somogyi’s new Mingus-inspired Scenes in the City featuring Tony Kofi and a Benny Goodman tribute by the tastefully named Liquorice Stick All-Sorts featuring a cross generational trio of Alan Barnes, vibraphonist Jim Hart and percussionist Paul Clarvis.
01.05.08 
Enrolments are already pouring in for the Jazzwise Summer School 2008,
Europe’s biggest annual short jazz course that runs from 27 July to 1
August 2008 at Richmond Adult Community College, Parkshot Centre in
Richmond, Surrey. Directed by acclaimed jazz educator Jamey Aebersold,
the Jazzwise course is the only jazz summer school in the world that
employs an all-star faculty of experienced college-level educators
drawn from both sides of the Atlantic. 24.01.08 
The March issue of Jazzwise will come with an exciting covernount free CD, the first in a series of covermounts planned for this year. Courtesy of the ACT label, which celebrates its fifteenth birthday this year, the disc will feature 16 tracks from the label's back catalogue including tracks by John Lee Hooker, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson, Nils Landgren, David Binney and EST. 26.01.07 
This year’s Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork runs from 26-28 October with a high class line-up including Phil Woods Quintet, Miroslav Vitous Quartet, EST, The Leaders (Chico Freeman, Bobby Watson et al), Gary Burton/Richard Galliano Quartet, Blind Boys of Alabama, Eliane Elias Trio, Mose Allison Trio, Geoff Gascoyne Project featuring Jamie Cullum and Trudy Kerr, Zoe Rahman Trio, Greg Abate Quartet, Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio, Avishai Cohen Trio, Empirical, Jesse Davis/Ulf Wakenius Quintet, Jeanie Bryson Sextet, Amp Fiddler, Melissa Stott, Diane Delin, The Campbell Brothers Sacred Steel and the Sound of Seventeen Big Band and many more. 01.10.07 
Jazzwise celebrated its tenth birthday yesterday at the Pizza Express Jazz Club with a special lunchtime reception which gathered together large sections of the UK jazz industry. After speeches by Jazzwise MD Charles Alexander and editor/publisher Jon Newey, the Esbjorn Svensson Trio took to the stage for a very rare club performance and just hours before their evening gig at the Barbican. Jazzwise has championed EST's music over the years with three front covers awarded to the band and everyone at the magazine was delighted that the band agreed to play at this special event.
Photo: Tim Dickeson
22.03.07 
Next month sees the return of one of the most remarkable jazz trios of recent times, the Swedish EST, for a major UK and Ireland tour. Esbjorn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Magnus Ostrom have reimagined the format of the trio in recent years with a string of very sucessful albums, the most recent of which was Tuesday Wonderland, released last year. Combining the sensibility of the traditional jazz trio with a nod to rock and contemporary music, the group has become a concert hall favourite in the UK and recently sold out the London Jazz Festival.
18.01.07 EST, the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, is back for some more British and Irish dates in October, its first since the spring. The Swedish group has become one of the most popular touring European groups of the last decade and has also started to make an impact in the States with regular visits. EST's latest album, out last autumn was Tuesday Wonderland. 04.09.07 Following its sell out appearance at the London Jazz Festival it has been announced that Swedish supergroup EST will return to the UK for a major tour in March. Sponsored by Jazzwise, the tour is to form part of the magazine’s tenth anniversary celebrations. EST featured strongly in the recent Jazzwise Album Of The Year critics’ poll, finishing third for their most recent album Tuesday Wonderland.
13.12.06 Swedish trio EST is set to tour their as yet unreleased new album Tuesday Wonderland now confirmed for the London Jazz Festival in November and a UK tour in March 2007. 31.05.06 The ACT record label, in a surprise move, has announced the upcoming release of a new live double CD by the feted Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Live in Hamburg, recorded in Germany last year, follows on from the Swedish group's last studio album Tuesday Wonderland released in 2006. 11.10.07 EST are set to release the follow-up to Live In Hamburg in the autumn. The new album, a studio album to be titled Leucocyte (which is a white blood cell tasked with defending the body from infectious disease), and recorded in Sydney, Australia in January 2007, less than three months after the Hamburg concert, it is set for a release in Germany on 26 September with a UK release to follow swiftly on. During the two day recording session the band laid down some nine hours of material from which the 10 tracks were selected. 03.06.08 
This year’s HSBC Brecon Jazz Festival, which runs from 7-10 August and is also sponsored by Jazzwise, celebrates its 25th year with over 90 performances, including many festival favourites returning for this special anniversary event. Esbjörn Svensson Trio will headline on the Saturday night playing their only UK date this year, while a strong UK jazz programme features Courtney Pine, Empirical, Neil Cowley Trio, Don Weller Big Band, Jason Rebello, The Blessing, Clare Teal, a new Tommy Smith Trio with Arild Anderson and Paulo Vinnacia and representing the vibrant Welsh scene there’s, Huw Warren, Burum and the Jones O’Connor Quartet. From America a number of old Brecon friends return including Lee Konitz, Mark Murphy, Louis Hayes and Joe Temperley plus Maceo Parker and Roy Hargrove (pictured). 05.06.08 The Belfast festival at Queen’s has announced its jazz programme for the festival this year which runs from 19 October-3 November. The Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Mose Allison, the Blind Boys of Alabama, The Necks, Billy Jenkins and Sherman Robertson are all on the bill.
31.07.07 
September at the Vortex Jazz Club is a month of musical contrasts with challenging big name veterans such as Evan Parker and Ray Russell contrasting with the acclaimed vocal talents of Ian Shaw and the exuberance of new up and coming young artists. 21.08.06 
Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra together? Say that again. Ray Charles and Count Basie together. 11.08.06 
A new film, set to be completed in the autumn, with a screenplay by writer Nick Hornby and featuring Carey Mulligan, Emma Thompson and Peter Sarsgaard as part of the cast, is understood to be partly set in the London jazz club scene of the early 1960s, not long after Ronnie Scott's opened its doors on Gerrard St in 1959. 30.01.08 
Basquiat Strings, the Humphrey Lyttelton band, Ska Cubano and Pama International are among the names announced so far for next month's Vibraphonic Festival that takes place in Exeter from 29 February and runs until 16 March at a number of the city’s key music venues, clubs, pubs and galleries. Basquiat Strings (pictured), led by cellist Ben Davis, are known for their contemporary classical and jazz improv reworkings of material such as Ornette Coleman's 'Lonely Woman', Wayne Shorter's 'Infant Eyes' as well as their own material including Davis' 'Jaci, Jo and Joseph', the last track on last year's Mercury nominated album Basquiat Strings With Seb Rochford. 22.01.08
REVIEWS: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
FEATURES: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Early Diana Krall tracks turn up on Swiss label
Array 28.02.03
ECM Unveils Schedule For Early 2008
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Keith Jarrett Trio, with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette is to be celebrated by the German record label ECM on 28 January 2008 when it releases Setting Standards (a reissue of Standards Vols 1 & 2), and Changes, the first issue in a new series called ECM: 24. 26.11.07Edinburgh Jazz Festival underway
The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival kicked off on 27 July and runs through until 5 August with a substantial programme. Highlights of the festival include US drum master Jeff Tain Watts, ex-Miles Davis drummer Al Foster, New Orleans great Dr John, genre bending jazz trio The Bad Plus, Scottish award winning trumpeter Colin Steele, British R&B legend Georgie Fame, saxophonists Courtney Pine and Tommy Smith in a special Coltrane-themed concert, guitarist Martin Taylor, pianist Brian Kellock and trombonist Chris Barber. 30.07.07Educators Flock To Leeds Jazz Conference
The Leeds International Jazz Conference, with its theme this year of "Jazz: Inside & Outside" takes place next week from 22-24 March. The annual event focuses on jazz research, education and performance and is the only conference of its kind in the UK. 14.03.07Elan Mehler Set For London Club Show
Pianist Elan Mehler (pictured) made quite an impact last year in the UK with his startlingly contemplative drummerless debut album Scheme For Thought. He's due to come back for a club date later this month in London with a quartet plus guest singer Jose James, who builds on the sound of Andy Bey channelled through the spirit of Gil Scott-Heron for a new jazz generation. 02.01.08
Ella Fitzgerald Documentary On TV Tomorrow
BBC4 is to screen a documentary celebrating the life and work of Ella Fitzgerald tomorrow. It's part of the Legends series which has previously featured Charlie Parker, Nat King Cole, Maria Callas and Edith Piaf among others. 15.11.07Empirical competes for European award
Empirical is one of the UK’s hottest new jazz groups, enthusiastically supported by Courtney Pine, whose Destin-E record label releases their debut album this month. The band consists of Jay Phelps on trumpet, Nathaniel Facey on alto sax, Kit Downes on piano, Tom Farmer on double bass and Shane Forbes on drums and their unique blend of jazz tradition with a high-energy contemporary edge garnered an impressive response when they appeared supporting Courtney Pine at the Jazzwise to the Power of Ten festival. 24.04.07Empirical End Extraordinary Year With Another Win
Hot on the heels of winning the Jazzwise Album Of The Year accolade with its eponymous debut, London band Empirical has won another award. This time it’s the Peter Whittingham Jazz Award, worth £4,000, which will be used to cover the costs of recording and promoting a further album of original music. Previous recent winners have included pianist David O’Brien of the group Porpoise Corpus, post Prime Time-pioneers Led Bib and Soweto Kinch who used his prize to record the ingenious rap ‘Jazz Planet’. 12.12.07
Empirical Wins Euro Jazz Contest
Hotly tipped UK group Empirical won the EBU European Jazz Competition in Rotterdam at the weekend. Held during the North Sea Jazz Festival the group was pitted against several leading young groups from all over Europe. The group's eponymous debut album is only released today, but already the group has received critical plaudits for its live club and festival performances and has been helped immeasurably by the support of Courtney Pine who signed the group to his own label, Destin-e records. 16.07.07Empirical, Arnie Somogyi, Dave Stapleton and Alan Barnes set for Swanage
This year’s Swanage Jazz Festival, taking place between 11 and 13 July, continues to cover a wide spectrum of UK jazz from the very traditional through to contemporary. Returning for its nineteenth year, highlights include Empirical, Dave Stapleton’s quartet and the Paul Towndrow Quartet. One of the festival’s special features this year is tribute bands: Alan Barnes’ new Johnny Hodges tribute Woodville All Stars, Arnie Somogyi’s new Mingus-inspired Scenes in the City featuring Tony Kofi and a Benny Goodman tribute by the tastefully named Liquorice Stick All-Sorts featuring a cross generational trio of Alan Barnes, vibraphonist Jim Hart and percussionist Paul Clarvis.
17.06.08Empirical, Dave Stapleton’s Quartet and the Paul Towndrow Quartet For Swanage
This year’s Swanage Jazz Festival, which is to take place from 11-13 July, continues to cover a wide spectrum of UK jazz from the very traditional through to contemporary. Returning for its nineteenth year, highlights include Empirical (pictured), Dave Stapleton’s Quartet and the Paul Towndrow Quartet. One of the festival’s special features this year is tribute bands: Alan Barnes’ new Johnny Hodges tribute Woodville All Stars, Arnie Somogyi’s new Mingus-inspired Scenes in the City featuring Tony Kofi and a Benny Goodman tribute by the tastefully named Liquorice Stick All-Sorts featuring a cross generational trio of Alan Barnes, vibraphonist Jim Hart and percussionist Paul Clarvis.
01.05.08
Enrol early for the Jazzwise Summer School 2008 and save up to £300
Enrolments are already pouring in for the Jazzwise Summer School 2008,
Europe’s biggest annual short jazz course that runs from 27 July to 1
August 2008 at Richmond Adult Community College, Parkshot Centre in
Richmond, Surrey. Directed by acclaimed jazz educator Jamey Aebersold,
the Jazzwise course is the only jazz summer school in the world that
employs an all-star faculty of experienced college-level educators
drawn from both sides of the Atlantic. 24.01.08Esbjörn Svensson Dies In Tragic Accident
The jazz world was stunned to learn of the death of pianist and composer Esbjörn Svensson at the age of just 44 who died suddenly as a result of a scuba diving accident in Sweden on Saturday. Born in Västeras in Sweden of music-loving parents he studied at the University in Stockholm and in 1993 founded EST with his childhood friend drummer Magnus Öström and bassist Dan Berglund. Their work together was to eventually make them global jazz stars, becoming the first European jazz group to appear on the cover of Downbeat magazine and winning numerous awards including a BBC jazz award and Jazzwise album of the year for their album Good Morning Susie Soho. Last year at Jazzwise’s 10th anniversary celebration at the Pizza Express Jazz Club, the band made a surprise appearance at the venue that saw them make their name in the early days here in the UK. The trio had just finished their impressive twelfth album Leucocyte due for an autumn release which was recorded in Sydney in Australia and included some of their more audacious and challenging material to date.
16.06.08EST And David Binney for Jazzwise Covermount
The March issue of Jazzwise will come with an exciting covernount free CD, the first in a series of covermounts planned for this year. Courtesy of the ACT label, which celebrates its fifteenth birthday this year, the disc will feature 16 tracks from the label's back catalogue including tracks by John Lee Hooker, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson, Nils Landgren, David Binney and EST. 26.01.07EST and Empirical For Cork
This year’s Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork runs from 26-28 October with a high class line-up including Phil Woods Quintet, Miroslav Vitous Quartet, EST, The Leaders (Chico Freeman, Bobby Watson et al), Gary Burton/Richard Galliano Quartet, Blind Boys of Alabama, Eliane Elias Trio, Mose Allison Trio, Geoff Gascoyne Project featuring Jamie Cullum and Trudy Kerr, Zoe Rahman Trio, Greg Abate Quartet, Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio, Avishai Cohen Trio, Empirical, Jesse Davis/Ulf Wakenius Quintet, Jeanie Bryson Sextet, Amp Fiddler, Melissa Stott, Diane Delin, The Campbell Brothers Sacred Steel and the Sound of Seventeen Big Band and many more. 01.10.07EST Perform At Jazzwise Tenth Birthday Party
Jazzwise celebrated its tenth birthday yesterday at the Pizza Express Jazz Club with a special lunchtime reception which gathered together large sections of the UK jazz industry. After speeches by Jazzwise MD Charles Alexander and editor/publisher Jon Newey, the Esbjorn Svensson Trio took to the stage for a very rare club performance and just hours before their evening gig at the Barbican. Jazzwise has championed EST's music over the years with three front covers awarded to the band and everyone at the magazine was delighted that the band agreed to play at this special event.Photo: Tim Dickeson
22.03.07
EST Prepare For Big Tour
Next month sees the return of one of the most remarkable jazz trios of recent times, the Swedish EST, for a major UK and Ireland tour. Esbjorn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Magnus Ostrom have reimagined the format of the trio in recent years with a string of very sucessful albums, the most recent of which was Tuesday Wonderland, released last year. Combining the sensibility of the traditional jazz trio with a nod to rock and contemporary music, the group has become a concert hall favourite in the UK and recently sold out the London Jazz Festival. 18.01.07
EST Return For Short Tour
EST, the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, is back for some more British and Irish dates in October, its first since the spring. The Swedish group has become one of the most popular touring European groups of the last decade and has also started to make an impact in the States with regular visits. EST's latest album, out last autumn was Tuesday Wonderland. 04.09.07EST Returns To UK For Tour
Following its sell out appearance at the London Jazz Festival it has been announced that Swedish supergroup EST will return to the UK for a major tour in March. Sponsored by Jazzwise, the tour is to form part of the magazine’s tenth anniversary celebrations. EST featured strongly in the recent Jazzwise Album Of The Year critics’ poll, finishing third for their most recent album Tuesday Wonderland. 13.12.06
EST Set For Tuesday Wonderland
Swedish trio EST is set to tour their as yet unreleased new album Tuesday Wonderland now confirmed for the London Jazz Festival in November and a UK tour in March 2007. 31.05.06EST To Release Live Double Album
The ACT record label, in a surprise move, has announced the upcoming release of a new live double CD by the feted Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Live in Hamburg, recorded in Germany last year, follows on from the Swedish group's last studio album Tuesday Wonderland released in 2006. 11.10.07EST To Release New Sydney-Recorded Album In Late-September
EST are set to release the follow-up to Live In Hamburg in the autumn. The new album, a studio album to be titled Leucocyte (which is a white blood cell tasked with defending the body from infectious disease), and recorded in Sydney, Australia in January 2007, less than three months after the Hamburg concert, it is set for a release in Germany on 26 September with a UK release to follow swiftly on. During the two day recording session the band laid down some nine hours of material from which the 10 tracks were selected. 03.06.08EST, Courtney Pine and Roy Hargrove top Brecon Festival
This year’s HSBC Brecon Jazz Festival, which runs from 7-10 August and is also sponsored by Jazzwise, celebrates its 25th year with over 90 performances, including many festival favourites returning for this special anniversary event. Esbjörn Svensson Trio will headline on the Saturday night playing their only UK date this year, while a strong UK jazz programme features Courtney Pine, Empirical, Neil Cowley Trio, Don Weller Big Band, Jason Rebello, The Blessing, Clare Teal, a new Tommy Smith Trio with Arild Anderson and Paulo Vinnacia and representing the vibrant Welsh scene there’s, Huw Warren, Burum and the Jones O’Connor Quartet. From America a number of old Brecon friends return including Lee Konitz, Mark Murphy, Louis Hayes and Joe Temperley plus Maceo Parker and Roy Hargrove (pictured). 05.06.08EST, Phil Woods and Empirical for Cork
This year’s Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork runs from 26-28 October with a high class line-up including Phil Woods Quintet, Miroslav Vitous Quartet, EST, The Leaders (Chico Freeman, Bobby Watson et al), Gary Burton/Richard Galliano Quartet, Blind Boys of Alabama, Eliane Elias Trio, Mose Allison Trio, Geoff Gascoyne Project featuring Jamie Cullum and Trudy Kerr, Zoe Rahman Trio, Greg Abate Quartet, Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio, Avishai Cohen Trio, Empirical, Jesse Davis/Ulf Wakenius Quintet, Jeanie Bryson Sextet, Amp Fiddler, Melissa Stott, Diane Delin, The Campbell Brothers Sacred Steel and the Sound of Seventeen Big Band and many more.
29.08.07EST, The Necks and Billy Jenkins for Belfast
The Belfast festival at Queen’s has announced its jazz programme for the festival this year which runs from 19 October-3 November. The Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Mose Allison, the Blind Boys of Alabama, The Necks, Billy Jenkins and Sherman Robertson are all on the bill. 31.07.07
Evan Parker, Ray Russell, and Ian Shaw top Vortex September programme
September at the Vortex Jazz Club is a month of musical contrasts with challenging big name veterans such as Evan Parker and Ray Russell contrasting with the acclaimed vocal talents of Ian Shaw and the exuberance of new up and coming young artists. 21.08.06Exclusive: Ray Charles and Count Basie At Last
Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra together? Say that again. Ray Charles and Count Basie together. 11.08.06Exclusive: Sixties London Jazz Club Scene To Be Captured In New Film
A new film, set to be completed in the autumn, with a screenplay by writer Nick Hornby and featuring Carey Mulligan, Emma Thompson and Peter Sarsgaard as part of the cast, is understood to be partly set in the London jazz club scene of the early 1960s, not long after Ronnie Scott's opened its doors on Gerrard St in 1959. 30.01.08Exeter’s Good Vibrations: From Basquiat Strings to Humphrey Lyttelton
Basquiat Strings, the Humphrey Lyttelton band, Ska Cubano and Pama International are among the names announced so far for next month's Vibraphonic Festival that takes place in Exeter from 29 February and runs until 16 March at a number of the city’s key music venues, clubs, pubs and galleries. Basquiat Strings (pictured), led by cellist Ben Davis, are known for their contemporary classical and jazz improv reworkings of material such as Ornette Coleman's 'Lonely Woman', Wayne Shorter's 'Infant Eyes' as well as their own material including Davis' 'Jaci, Jo and Joseph', the last track on last year's Mercury nominated album Basquiat Strings With Seb Rochford. 22.01.08Newsletter
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