There’s a certain style, swagger and above all sassiness about Claire Martin that has endeared her to jazz fans for many years now. Her ability to interpret lyrics while swinging hard has secured her position at the top of the tree among jazz singers in the UK. For her latest album, He Never M...29.05.07

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and Claire Martin are to take part in a special charity event next month at the actors’ church St Paul’s in London’s Covent Garden on 18 November....02.10.06

John Dankworth and Cleo Laine’s Stables venue in Wavendon, Milton Keynes plays host to a variety of jazz, classical and rock concerts this summer. Jazz highlights in May and June include appearances by Soweto Kinch, Steve Howe’s trio and Claire Martin. The jazz dates are: Dankworth Big B...10.04.07

Sample Features In This Month's Issue-----------------------------------------Claire Martin - Slowly but surely - For her latest album, He Never Mentioned Love, she pays tribute to one of her singing idols, Shirley Horn, for a sincere tribute that features Martin at her very best. Jane Cornwell talk...29.05.07

Snape Proms runs from 1-31 August with a programme that ranges from classical, jazz and folk music as well as poetry recitals, exhibitions and salsa dance classes.
This year’s line up includes Jazz Jamaica, Claire Martin, Antonio Forcione, Alex Wilson and the Jacques Loussier Trio....09.07.07

Cool Yule at the Purcell Room in London and The Front Room at the QEH on the South Bank Centre from 13-29 December has become an annual alternative to the more traditional Christmas musical activities. ...16.11.06

Travel to the outermost northern suburbs of London and you'll come across a gleaming new tower block, part of which houses the Artsdepot arts complex with two theatres within, an art gallery and much more in the otherwise unlikely surroundings of North Finchley. The venue has just announced its prog...22.08.07

1 Empirical Empirical Destin-e2 Knut Rössler-Johannes Vogt Between The Times ACT3 Tim Buckley Blue Afternoon Rhino4 Claire Martin He Never Mentioned Love Linn5 Gabor Szabo Bacchanal Blue Moon...29.05.07

Veteran pianist, composer and educator Dave Brubeck is to be this year's recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Jazz Awards to be held next month. A full list of the nominations and some winners for this year's awards was made at a special concert last night when some of the nominees...08.06.07

Pianist Geoff Eales and singers Claire Martin and Ian Shaw are to perform a one-off concert in aid of Welsh learning disability charity Mencap Cymru. The jazz event is to be held on Wednesday 26 September 2007 at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff just days before the well-known venue closes its
doors fo...10.09.07

Guitarist Martin Taylor, one of the greatest ever UK jazz guitarists, talks to Jack Massarik about coming to terms with the death of his son Stewart, calling on the help of some of his oldest musical associates to form a new band Freternity which has managed to draw out some of Martin’s most e...20.03.07

Indirecto/EmArcy 0602517204393    ****Martin Medeski (ky), John Scofield (g), Chris Wood (b) and Billy Martin (d). Rec. November and January 2006....20.03.07

Guitarist Martin Simpson, known primarily for his work with folk
legends The Albion Band and Richard Thompson, is an awesome
steel-string player10.10.06

In Birmingham this Saturday saxophonist Martin Speake, sitarist Dharambir Singh and tabla player Sarvar Sabri are performing music based on Indian raags at the Midland Arts Centre. For more info go to www.macarts.co.uk...18.04.06

John Medeski (keys, p), Billy Martin (b) and Chris Wood (d). Rec. 1998-200510.08.06

The eleventh Cheltenham Jazz Festival will take place from 27 April-1 May 2006 and follows on from a very successful tenth birthday edition which headlined with Herbie Hancock and Ornette Coleman. Sponsored again this year by Jazzwise the programme is now deep in the planning stage and a full list o...02.12.05

Northampton School for Boys is to host two workshop concert days, the first this month with guitarist Martin Taylor and next month with vocal group The Swingle Singers. Each day will feature an afternoon workshop for students and teachers followed by an evening concert, open to the general public.
...02.02.06

Medeski Martin and Wood, the trio that virtually invented the whole notion of the jam band, have teamed up once again with John Scofield for a joyous open ended Meters-inspired jam Out Louder. Is it a reworking of past glories or a fresh new outing together? Andy Robson finds out....20.03.07

With the ECM release of his new album, Change of Heart, altoist Martin Speake jumps categories from “man most likely” to “ascending star”. It’s one of those records that has the capacity to define a career. With a dream band of Paul Motian on drums, Bobo Stenson on pian...20.04.06

Michael Garrick (p, comp), Norma Winstone (v), Martin Shaw, Steve Waterman, Mark Armstrong, Gabriel Garrick (t), Mark da Silva, Alistair White, Dave Eaglestone (tb), Martin Hathaway (as, cl), Matt Wates (as, ss), Bob McKay (bs, bcl), Jamie Anderson (ts), Mick Foster (ts, cl), Dominic Ashworth (g), P...02.02.06

We have scoured the Jazzwise vaults and found a few copies of PREVIOUSLY SOLD-OUT Jazzwise Back Issues - these are RARE, hard-to-find issues and represent the LAST OPPORTUNITY for you to complete your collection.
In this issue: Claire Martin; Dianne Reeves; Nnenna Freelon; Monday Michiru.
These i...

We have scoured the Jazzwise vaults and found a few copies of PREVIOUSLY SOLD-OUT Jazzwise Back Issues - these are RARE, hard-to-find issues and represent the LAST OPPORTUNITY for you to complete your collection.
In this issue: David Sanchez; John Taylor; Uri Caine; Claire Martin; Stan Tracey.
Th...

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Andrew Hill; Dreyfus Jazz; Claire Martin; Keith Tippett; Robert Glasper; Kurt Elling.
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We have scoured the Jazzwise vaults and found a few copies of PREVIOUSLY SOLD-OUT Jazzwise Back Issues - these are RARE, hard-to-find issues and represent the LAST OPPORTUNITY for you to complete your collection.
In this issue: Tommy Smith; Gary Crosby's Nu Troop; Project 33; Juan D'Marcos; Eddie ...

World class jazz guitarist Martin Taylor’s playing has been greatly influenced by the master Jazz pianist. In this challenging DVD lesson, Martin applies his fingerstyle jazz genius to the music of the great American composer Duke Ellington. Five of Ellington’s magnificent compositions are prese...

Martin Taylor shares the secrets of his style here for the first time. Learn how he creates solo guitar arrangements of jazz standards via a series of progressive studies aimed at introducing guitarists of intermediate level and beyond to the world of arranging and solo performance. All music exampl...

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Miles Davis, Martin Taylor, Cassandra Wilson, Toumani Diabate, Nguyen Le, Martin Speake, Paul Towndrow.
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Ten Years of Jazzwise, Richard Fairhurst & Tom Arthurs, Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood, Martin Taylor, Rabih Abou-Khalil.
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A companion volume to the author’s book The Jazz Tradition, this book has four sections:

(1) Reviews and critiques of Fats Waller, Count Basie, Bud Powell, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, the World Saxophone Quartet, and others;

(2) Musicians at work during rehearsals, recording dates, and nig...

* 15 tunes that reflect the breadth and diversity of jazz, from the great African-American tradition to the vibrant and multicultural sounds of jazz today
* arrangements by jazz arrangers, carefully researched and designed to accommodate teacher and pupil alike
* an approach that encourage...