Not content with being one of the UK's most in-demand live jazz performers Soweto Kinch, is also involved with the grassroots Nu Century Arts organisation in his hometown Birmingham which has a dynamic series of events due to take place in the autumn. The Live Box, the name Kinch gives to this vent...06.08.07

David Gallant talks to alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch about how he got started, the instruments he has played over the years and his all time favourite choice."I guess our house was like a creative hub,” says Kinch. “I grew up being surrounded by lots of musicians, poets and visual a...12.02.07

Saxophonist Soweto Kinch is to play a full part in a new government initiative, My Music, developed with the intention of forging links between schools and industry to help teenagers broaden their musical horizons....12.10.06

Next month alto saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch presents Where Musical Worlds Collide a set of two programmes where Kinch discusses spoken word in the context of both hip hop and jazz and investigates the spoken word in jazz, scat and jive talk, improvisation with language, protest and beat poet...07.09.05

The City of Derry Jazz And Big Band Festival starts tomorrow with a final programme that includes Jools Holland, Soweto Kinch, Curtis Stigers and Jacqui Dankworth. ...26.04.06

To mark its 30th anniversary Birmingham Jazz will host an awards ceremony at The Jam House on Wednesday 1 November. The event, which will be compered by Soweto Kinch and Jacqui Dankworth, celebrates the escalation of Birmingham Jazz from small independent organisation to major national and internati...20.10.06

Alto saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch won the best jazz act award at last night's MOBO awards after the category's reinstatement this year. This was his second award in a matter of days following his success at the British Jazz Awards the night before....20.09.07

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

Dune records have announced details of award winning alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch's new album.13.06.06

There's a heady mix of jazz and politics as a backdrop to the Cultures of Resistance gig to be held on 9 July at the Mean Fiddler on London's Charing Cross Rd. Soweto Kinch, Jerry Dammers, Gilad Atzmon, Nizar Al-Issa and Jean Binta Breeze are all scheduled to take part in what's billed as "a ce...20.06.07

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When trumpeter Abram Wilson made the move from his native New Orleans to London he had no idea about what was in store. From jamming in London jazz clubs, to working on Soweto Kinch’s Conversations With The Unseen, to developing his own albums Jazz Warrior and now Ride! the New Orleansian has ...17.01.07

Multi-award wining alto saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch burst on to the jazz scene in 2003 when his album Conversations With The Unseen was released. It marked an updated twenty first century consciousness for a new generation of young black British jazz musicians who were in the process of identify...31.08.06

After preview events by Abram Wilson in June and Monica Vasconcelos on 15 July the main programme of this year’s Hull Jazz Festival gets underway on 28 July with an African and Caribbean celebration courtesy of Sankofa Sunsplash. Changing tack, there’s a New Orelans programme outdoors in...11.06.07

The City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival, which takes place in Northern Ireland from 27-30 April, has announced its line-up.10.02.06

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

1 Finn Peters Su-ling Babel2 Keith Jarrett The Carnegie Hall Concert ECM3 Branford Marsalis Braggtown Marsalis Music4 Soft Machine Middle Earth Masters Cuneiform5 Soweto Kinch A Life In The Day of B19 Tales Of The Tower Block Dune...26.01.07

A protest will take place tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in London where the MOBO Awards are being held. Organised to show the jazz community’s dismay at the award organisers’ decision to drop the jazz category from this year’s ceremony trumpeter Abram Wilson will front a 10-piec...20.09.06

Following the protests and criticism that followed the decision by the MOBO award organisers to drop the jazz category at last year's event, jazz has been reinstated for this year's affair. In a neat twist, two of the most vocal protesters, Soweto Kinch, a past winner, and Abram Wilson have been nom...23.08.07

The nominations have been announced for this year’s BBC Jazz Awards, to be held in London on 12 July. Organised by BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3, you can now vote online on the BBC website. The nominations so far are as follows for: Best Album: Tom Cawley’s Curios, Hidden; Neil Cowley Trio, Di...16.04.07

Four leading up-and-coming saxophonists battle it out in front of a jury of notable pros, including David Sanborn, Kirk Whalum, Lee Konitz and Jean Toussaint. Saxophonists include Walter Smith, Jamie Oehlers and Mark Small (ts), and Soweto Kinch (as).
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Your LAST CHANCE to secure a limited back issue copy of Jazzwise magazine.
EST, Julian Joseph, Soweto Kinch, Diana Krall, Patricia Barber.
These issues will NEVER-BE-REPRINTED and will quickly become valuable collectors' items. Similar back issues of music magazines have sold for 2 to 3 times the...

Your LAST CHANCE to secure a limited back issue copy of Jazzwise magazine.
Barb Jungr, Nigel Kennedy, Abram Wilson & Soweto Kinch, Dave Holland, Gilad Atzmon, Marc Ribot, LJF Talk-in.
These issues will NEVER-BE-REPRINTED and will quickly become valuable collectors' items. Similar back issues of m...