Watch: Michael Blake’s ‘Malagasy’ from new album Combobulate
- Friday, September 30, 2022
The Canadian-born American saxophonist, composer, arranger, and bandleader shares his uplifting new single ‘Malagasy’ that has a brass-heavy 12/8 groove
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Robert Mitchell’s True Think, Gary Crosby and Arun Ghosh line up for Marsden Jazz Festival
- Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Showing true grit and determination the 30th Marsden Jazz Festival will take place from 6 to 9 October despite losing its key funder for the first time since 2008, following Arts Council England’s decision in June not to support the festival due to “pressure on ACE resources”.
Pharoah Sanders: 13/10/40-24/09/2022
- Monday, September 26, 2022
Kevin Le Gendre pays tribute to the spiritual jazz saxophone colossus, and Coltrane protégé, who has died aged 81
Jazz Promotion Network Announce Conference Bursaries
- Friday, September 23, 2022
The Jazz Promotion Network have announced the launch of a bursary scheme to attend the JPN conference in Belfast this November.
US trumpeter Keyon Harrold and saxophonist Binker Golding complete Brighton Jazz Festival line-up
- Friday, September 23, 2022
The burgeoning south-coast jazz weekender has announced the final names for its 2022 event that runs from 29 September to 2 October
Watch: Makaya McCraven premieres visualiser for track 'So Ubuji' from new album In These Times
- Friday, September 23, 2022
The influential Chicago drummer/producer shares a hypnotic track from his powerful new album, In These Times, that's released today on International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL Recordings - video premieres at 3pm BST
Complete EFG London Jazz Festival 30th anniversary line-up announced
- Wednesday, September 21, 2022
The capital’s biggest live music event returns to full strength with a 30th anniversary programme packed with homegrown talent and international names
Introducing the October 2022 issue of Jazzwise, featuring Alina Bzhezhinska
- Thursday, September 15, 2022
Alina Bzhezhinska: from Coltrane and Ashby to HipHarp heroine | Andrew McCormack: the power of three | Donald Fagen: the jazz smuggler
Applications now open for Help Musicians’ Peter Whittingham Jazz Award
- Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Help Musicians open applications for its prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Award, offering financial support towards a musical activity and business advice to a jazz musician or band at a tipping point in their career.
Blue Note to issue legendary 1967 Elvin Jones Quartet concerts
- Wednesday, September 14, 2022
On 18 November, Blue Note Records will be releasing Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub, a previously- unissued live recording of Elvin Jones’ quartet that captures the legendary drummer’s emergence as a bandleader at a little-known club in New York City where he had a weekly residency after leaving John Coltrane's band in 1966.