The organisers of the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, which runs from 5 to 7 July 2019, have confirmed that iconic jazz pianist Chick Corea will be performing at next year’s festival.
The press obituaries for Peter Boizot, who has died aged 89 after a lengthy illness, have largely concentrated on his role as founder of the Pizza Express restaurant chain.
Ahead of starting the Vortex in 1988, there is nothing in the early life of David Mossman, who died on Saturday at the age of 76, that would naturally make us think that he was ‘destined’ to run a jazz club in a relatively unrecognised part of London.
The second phase of Poland’s Jazz Jantar festival involved five nights of mostly twinned bills.
Jazz Jantar has been running in the northern Polish port of Gdańsk for the last two decades, and is housed in Klub Zak, an arts centre that has roots stretching back 60 years.
The Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival will return for its seventh edition, running from 21-24 March 2019, but due to the Colston Hall being closed for renovation, the festival will move into a multi-venue format along the stretch of Park Street with several concerts in St George’s concert hall, as well as in Anson Rooms, O2 and Folk House.
In this centenary year of the end of the First World War, a project addressing the horrors of the conflict as well as literary responses to it is welcome.
The Barbican's foyer is still resounding to the tumultuous multi-horned attack of the Don-qui Five, part of the Nordic Jazz Comets take-over, but in the main hall an atmosphere of calm prevails.
Scrolling down the posts on Facebook, from people pleading for spare tickets, you get a sense of just how in-demand tonight’s headliners really are.
Legendary jazz-rock guitarist John McLaughlin has just announced a return to the live arena for a show at London’s Barbican Hall on 23 April 2019.
