The winners of the 14th annual Parliamentary Jazz Awards took place on Tuesday 16 October, at PizzaExpress Live's Holborn venue, with the wide-range recipients reflecting the depth and diversity of the British jazz scene.
South London's longstanding music and arts venue, The Albany, has a varied line-up of jazz within its autumn programme.
Long regarded as among the most notable and, in recent decades, most collectable albums in British jazz history, the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet EMI/Columbia recordings are to be reissued on vinyl for the first time since they were released in the 1960s.
The second edition of the Mondriaan Jazz Festival takes place this weekend on Saturday 13 October, and features stellar line-up of cutting edge jazz from artists from the UK, US and Europe.
This exciting initiative taken by London-based vocalist Filomena Campus is the best possible advert for cross-cultural exchange at a time of internal strife in Europe.
Jazz In The Round promoters Chris Phillips and Jez Nelson must have scoured the South in their search for suitably-shaped venues to accommodate their expanding vision; St Mary's In The Rock, a semi-circular Regency church hollowed out of the Hastings cliffs, fits the bill perfectly as a setting for this festival celebrating emerging UK jazz.
This year's festival was perhaps short on surprises, compared to previous editions, but was high in quality.
The bouncer outside is busy checking ID and handing out wristbands to those lucky enough and old enough to buy booze legally; inside the system is playing trap to entertain the packed out crowd.
Most jazz cruises skim through moist Caribbean parts, proffering smooth American sedatives, but Finland can offer a somewhat contrasting adventure.
Fast emerging New York group SUM bring together jazz, soul and funk on their eponymous debut album, SUM (pronounced "soom", a latin word meaning "to be").
