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Soweto Kinch Collaborates With His Father For New Stage Production
Category : Breaking News
18/11/08
London’s Bethnal Green Rd venue Rich Mix is to host a play entitled Coming Up For Air written by Don Kinch, the father of jazz saxophonist/MC Soweto Kinch. Directed by Olusola Oyeleye the play has music written by Soweto. The play is the story of a young black man, Denzil Nurse (played by James Hamilton), who shoots dead three community leaders and is based on a true story told to Don Kinch by a man who, after an angry exchange with his sister, was arrested, taken to a mental hospital and held for three weeks under section 22 of the Mental Health Act. Don Kinch has a long history of involvement with theatre in the Birmingham area and together with son Soweto runs the pan-arts organisation Nu Century Arts which has produced this play. Coming Up For Air takes place at Rich Mix on 10-13 December. Tickets are £12. For more go to www.richmix.org.uk
Last Updated ( 18/11/08 )
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Parker scoops Hamlyn Award
Category : Breaking News
17/11/08
Saxophonist Evan Parker has been named as one of the recipients of this year’s Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards For Artists. Five visual artists and three composers in all were presented with cheques for £15,000 each, the first of three annual payments totalling £45,000. The Awards support artists at critical moments in their careers, enabling them to focus on their work and develop creatively. The other winners were: Duncan Campbell, Marcus Coates, Simon Martin, Terry Smith and Alison Wilding, Emily Howard, and Janek Schaefer.
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Countdown to London Jazz Festival
Category : Breaking News
13/11/08
The London Jazz Festival gets under way tomorrow and there’s no messing about from the get-go, with a wealth of gigs on the opening day of the festival which runs through until Sunday week. Tomorrow’s offerings include the big Jazz Voice gala at the Barbican, Britten Sinfonia with Dhafer Youssef and Joanna MacGregor at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Vincent Herring at Ronnie’s, Keith Tippett at the Purcell Room, Ken Vandermark at the Vortex, Femi Kuti at the Festival Hall and the London Sinfonietta with Arve Henriksen and Iain Ballamy at King’s Place. For all the festival details and how to book go to www.londonjazzfestival.org.uk
Last Updated ( 19/11/08 )
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Blue Note turns 70
Category : Breaking News
12/11/08
The Blue Note record label turns 70 in 2009 and as well as a batch of new reissues and some 20 RVGs, a deluxe box-set is expected, plus a two volume best of which will accompany a new history of the label by noted US writer Ashley Kahn. A new group, the Blue Note 7 (featuring Nicolas Payton, Steve Wilson, Ravi Coltrane, Peter Bernstein, Bill Charlap, Peter Washington and Lewis Nash) will also tour extensively during the year, also paying tribute to the label with a debut album.
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Keith Tippett To Team Up With Nostalgia 77
Category : Breaking News
11/11/08
Tru Thoughts records have revealed details of an unusual collaboration between retro producer Ben Lamdin, better known as Nostalgia 77, with Brit free jazz pioneer pianist Keith Tippett and his wife singer Julie Tipetts. The project also features bassist Riaan Vosloo. The album Nostalgia 77 Sessions featuring Keith and Julie Tippetts will be released in February 2009, with a 7” single released on 1 December. Tippett’s monumental 70s big band Centipede is one of the most influential collectives from the period and Tippett since then has followed an idiosyncratic direction with smaller groups and projects.
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Miriam Makeba dies
Category : Breaking News
10/11/08
South African singing legend Miriam Makeba, known to her fans around the world as Mama Africa, has died aged 76, after being taken ill in Italy after she had performed in the southern Italian town of Caserta at an anti-mafia concert. Makeba was a leading anti-apartheid figure in South Africa and continued the struggle when she lived abroad and toured the world. She first came to prominence in the US in the late-1950s with the Manhattan Brothers and then formed her own group, The Skylarks.
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On the edge
Category : Breaking News
06/11/08
Fringe festival Edge08 – running parallel to the London Jazz Festival which begins next week – includes a run of gigs, exhibitions and jam sessions focusing on new currents and music lapping around the edges of jazz. Based in Shoreditch, and curated by Paul Bradshaw, Orphy Robinson and Jason Jules, Edge includes an exhibition of photography by Peter Williams, Futurizm, Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez, Robert Glasper Trio and Steve Williamson.
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Joshua Redman and Guy Barker for Gateshead
Category : Breaking News
04/11/08
The first major jazz festival in the UK of 2009, the Gateshead Jazz Festival, is to take place on 20-22 March at the Sage with a line-up including early bookings Guy Barker’s Jazz Orchestra, Courtney Pine, Ian Shaw, Sheila Jordan, Cleveland Watkiss, Joshua Redman Trio, John Warren’s Splinter Group, Marcin Wasilewski, Alan Barnes and Jambone, plus The Jazz Lounge, Jam Sessions, DJ sets, free Concourse performances, workshops and masterclasses.
Last Updated ( 04/11/08 )
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Mentoring Scheme Take Five Announces New Intake
Category : Breaking News
03/11/08
Take Five – the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the PRS Foundation for New Music-backed scheme – has just announced the line-up of participants for the next edition of the scheme. The artist development scheme for emerging jazz musicians is designed to give some of the UK’s most talented young jazz musicians the unique opportunity to take ‘time out’ to develop their craft. The musicians selected are John Burton (Leafcutter John) (electronics); Neil Charles (double bass), Nathaniel Facey (alto saxophone), Robin Fincker (clarinets and saxophones), Jim Hart (vibraphone and drums), Jasper Høiby (double bass), Chris Mapp (double bass) and Natalie Williams (vocals).
Last Updated ( 03/11/08 )
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Portico Quartet Set For UK Tour And Remix Single Release
Category : Breaking News
31/10/08
Having enjoyed a 700% increase in album sales of their Mercury-nominated debut album 'Knee Deep In The North Sea', London-based Portico Quartet capitalise on their new found household name status with their first ever national tour of the UK. Launching this with their now sold-out gig at the Purcell Room as part of this year's London Jazz Festival on November 19th, they visit venues across the UK.
Last Updated ( 31/10/08 )
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Destin-e Records Showcase At The Stables This Weekend
Category : Breaking News
29/10/08
Courtney Pine’s Destin-e records is holding a special series of gigs at the Stables venue in Wavendon this weekend. Featuring pianist Nikki Yeoh tomorrow with her band Infinitum, the weekend also includes Cuban violinist and Courtney Pine Band member Omar Puente on Friday night followed by Empirical, the band that won Jazzwise’s album of the year award in 2007, on Saturday.
Last Updated ( 29/10/08 )
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