This year's Love Supreme Jazz Festival opens its gates tomorrow, Friday 29 June and runs until Sunday 1 July, and looks set to beat last year's record attendance of 40,000 across the weekend.
Chelsea music venue, Under the Bridge, will play host to several essential dates as part of next month's 10-day Innervisions festival.
Connoisseurs of craft ales and well-crafted extemporisation, rejoice! Another series of South London's premier beer shop blowouts have been scheduled.
The line-up for this year's EFG London Jazz Festival, which runs from 16 to 25 November, is taking shape with some major names and specially curated shows added to the programme.
Wynton Marsalis is more forward-thinking than he gets credit for – some of the sense of the trumpeter's traditionalism regarding jazz, and aspects of his 'controversial' image, are surely overplayed to sell tickets.
Joe Lovano remarked that "it was the end of an era" as he and the Sound Prints quintet he co-leads with Dave Douglas launched into a week at the Village Vanguard in NYC on 12 June.
Southend-on-Sea's Jazz Centre UK presents a major exhibition, Jazz Women, from 30 June to 18 August, in celebration of the 'heritage, culture and future of Jazz Women'.
The UK equivalent to the Brussels Jazz Weekend would be to hold a jazz festival in Trafalgar Square, something that's not too likely a prospect.
British vibes virtuoso Orphy Robinson is artist-in-residence at the year's Gibraltar World Music Festival, which runs 19-21 June, and will be using the opportunity to lead a large all-star 17-piece ensemble, which will form The Voicestra Polyphonic Collective.
Having reopened its doors in January 2016, following a multi-million-pound refit by new owners The Columbo Group, Camden's Jazz Cafe marks its second anniversary year by continuing its strong jazz programming with a bumper crop of names throughout the summer and into autumn.
