The Octave Bar in Covent Garden now hosts live jazz six nights of the week and after three years of presenting jazz in London, is this year proud to be part of the London Jazz Festival in November. The Octave offers modern European food and an extensive cocktail menu in a relaxed, atmospheric environment. With a maximum capacity of 100 in the restaurant and 150 in the bar the club presents both established and up and coming local jazz talent and a weekly jam session.
03.10.07

Ahead of the Rolling Stones shows this week in London members of the Stones travelling band, saxophonist Tim Ries, trombonist Michael Davis and singer Bernard Fowler, took their own jazzed-up versions of the Jagger/Richards songbook to the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston last night. 21.08.07

There may be over 100 categories, in widely ranging genres including best polka album and best surround sound,  but among these the jazz category nominations for next year’s Grammys have been announced. There are several categories for jazz, the most notable of which is the best jazz instrumental album category. 08.12.06

Due to re-open in June, the Royal Festival Hall, closed for two years for a major refurbishment, has booked a dream brace of gigs with some of the most innovative avant garde jazz musicians. On Sunday 8 July the Cecil Taylor Quartet takes to the Festival Hall’s stage with a quartet featuring saxophonist Anthony Braxton, bassist William Parker and drummer Tony Oxley.
03.04.07

Saxophone great Ornette Coleman is to release a new album Sound Grammar on his own label on 25 September, his first since Sound Museum, Three Women and Colors 10 years ago. Like Colors, Sound Grammar was recorded in Germany, but in this case at Ludwigshafen last October. 15.09.06

Ornette Coleman is thought to be on the verge of releasing his first album since Sound Museum in 1996 although he appeared on Joe Henry's Scar with Brad Mehldau and Marc Ribot released in 2001.
17.07.06

Ornette Coleman won four awards at the Jazz Journalists Awards held last week in New York's Jazz Standard Club. This continues a momentous year for the 77-year-old who is due in London next week for a Royal Festival Hall concert, as he has already won a Pulitzer and an honorary Grammy. 03.07.07