The September issue of Jazzwise is out now with an in-depth interview with pioneering trumpeter Cuong Vu talking about his new album, Change in the Air, his second collaboration with guitar guru Bill Frisell.
Expect a bagful of bedlam when the free-wheeling Manchester/London-based quartet of David Birchall (guitar), Andrew Cheetham (drums), Colin Webster (alto and baritone saxophone) and Otto Willberg (double-bass) hit London's Vortex on Thursday 6 September.
The first Splash Point Jazz Festival will take place in Eastbourne on 30 September, with 12 bands appearing across three venues in the south east coast resort town.
Jazz FM, which is broadcast nationally on DAB and recently achieved some of its highest ever audience ratings with the latest RAJAR listening figures, has been sold to Bauer Media Group for an undisclosed amount.
Three of the key figures on London's improv scene – tenor saxophonist Rachel Musson, alto saxophonist Julie Kjær and cellist Hannah Marshall – assemble their free jazz meets mutant chamber-music trio at Waterloo's Iklectik this weekend (Sunday 19 November).
As far as monikers go, 'Lady Soul' may well have proved a heavy load to bear for many artists.
Photographer Art Kane's legendary jazz photograph 'Harlem – 1958', commonly known as 'A Great Day in Harlem', celebrates its 60th anniversary on 12 August and is the subject of new book, Art Kane: Harlem 1968, to be published in November.
Soweto Kinch's free one-day arts festival, The Flyover Show, returns on Saturday 18 August, 12.
In a week of outstanding musical offerings in Sligo, perhaps the apogee was Malcolm Edmonstone's arrangement of Donald Fagan's solo album The Nightfly, with a cracking big band rocking the audience.
Molde might be a small coastal town in western Norway, but it has multi-storey cruise ships arriving each day, preparing for fjord explorations.
