Exclusive video interview: Don Was talks about Blue Note Records
- Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Jazzwise sat down with the President of Blue Note Records, Don Was, to look back at the label's history and to talk about the label's 80th birthday
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Thundercat, KOKOROKO and Alpha Mist pounce on Nile Rodgers’s Meltdown
- Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Fiery funk-soul-fusion bassist and singer Thundercat, aka Stephen Bruner, will headline the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 4 August as part of Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers’ edition of Meltdown.
Ashley Henry releases new single and video ‘Between The Lines’
- Thursday, July 25, 2019
‘Between The Lines’ features his longstanding friend/collaborator MC Sparkz and Grammy-nominated US trumpeter Keyon Harrold.
Dave O’Higgins and Rob Luft take the music of Monk and Trane on epic UK tour
- Wednesday, July 24, 2019
All of the details for the UK tour by Dave O'Higgins and Rob Luft of their new album, Plays Monk & Trane, released later this year
Chick Corea, Snarky Puppy, SEED Ensemble and Lauryn Hill uplift at Love Supreme
- Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Love Supreme’s seventh year continues its unique strengths, as an up-to-the-minute bulletin on the state of (mostly) UK and US jazz, an icon or two and a crowd-drawing Main Stage of soul, reggae and funk interweave beneath the largely sun-drenched South Downs.
Zorn blasts through 50 Bagatelles and Snarky Puppy roar in the rain at storming 60th Ljubljana Jazz Festival
- Wednesday, July 24, 2019
John Zorn presented his Bagatelles Marathon in which 14 artists, including Craig Taborn, Mary Halvorson, Ikue Mori, Kris Davis, Erik Friedlander and Michael Nicholas, and the composer-alto saxophonist himself leading Masada, appeared in 15 minute slots to play 50 of his pieces
Mark Lockheart busts out new jazz-rock Quartet for Bristol premiere
- Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Given the cresting wave of electronic dance derived jazz right now this was a determinedly retro-facing project, referencing the music’s rock-informed heyday (albeit the later, more sophisticated No Wave style of John Zorn, inspiration for the tune ‘Jay Zee’)
Gary Bartz with We Out Here, Rob Luft, Elaine Mitchener and Blue Note Refreshed added to EFG London Jazz Festival line-up
- Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Exciting new names for this year's EFG London Jazz Festival have just been revealed
Introducing the August 2019 issue of Jazzwise
- Monday, July 22, 2019
Featuring interviews with Abdullah Ibrahim, Brad Mehldau, award-winning singer Emilia Mårtensson, keyboardist Ashley Henry and Mercury-nominated trumpeter Laura Jurd, plus reviews of the best new jazz albums