The new monthly concert series, Studio Jazz Thursdays, continues its monthly run at the Other Palace, the salubrious basement music venue beneath the Palace Theatre that's a stone's throw from Victoria Station in London.
On the last day of Bristol Jazz and Blues Festival, the snow fell.
A new weekly jazz show, J to Z, is to replace Jazz Line-Up, with the first edition set to air on Saturday 7 April from 5-6.
Annual Lisbon jazz adventure, Jazz em Agosto, celebrates its 35th edition this year with a special programme, running between 27 July to 5 August, dedicated to the wonderfully esoteric soundworlds of New York composer, saxophonist and Tzadik label boss John Zorn.
Harpist Alina Bzhezhinska was one of the stars of last year's A Concert for John and Alice Coltrane at the EFG London Jazz Festival, and is set to release her new album Inspiration on 1 June on Ubuntu Music.
This year's EFG London Jazz Festival, which runs from 16 to 25 November at venues across the capital, is starting to shape up with many newly confirmed headliners announced.
The last weekend of the 15th Portland Jazz Festival was a feast of jazz-rock/funk fusion, outstanding trumpets, guitars and piano jazz.
Concert venue Turner Sims Southampton, which is part of the University of Southampton, will receive over £315,000 from Arts Council England to launch Jazz South, a three-year talent development programme.
Returning to the place of their 2012 debut performance and live recording, Rocket Science took the audience on a wild and captivating journey at the Vortex on Friday.
Multi-award winning saxophonist and composer Phil Meadows hits the road for a string of UK dates in March and April in the run up to recording his next studio album.
