US saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts, arguably best known for her confrontational series of Coin Coin releases, teams up with British sound artist/improviser Kelly Jayne Jones for a new live collaboration and tour, the first in an ongoing series organised by Outlands, a new national experimental music touring network.
Ella, Nina, Billie, Dee Dee – figures so distinguished that we can often get away with using first names only.
The twin tenors tradition has a long history, stretching back to the cutting contests of Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray and frequently revived by promoters with an eye to cashing in on the swaggering, macho appeal of the format.
Jazzwise received this statement from Trudy Lister of Tomorrow's Warriors this morning regarding award-winning bassist Gary Crosby: "Gary Crosby OBE, Artistic Director of Tomorrow's Warriors and Jazz Jamaica suffered a stroke on Monday 29 January just a few days after celebrating his birthday with family and friends.
Last week saw the highly successful South Coast Jazz Festival at Ropetackle, Shoreham-on-Sea and full credit must go to the team of director Phil Jackson, Claire Martin, Elaine Crouch and Julian Nicholas for organising such a wide range of jazz events and performances throughout the week.
One of the Brussels Jazz Festival's best gigs came three days before the end of its 10-day run.
Like all the best creative scenes, London's emergent and youthful jazz-based soundscape is characterised by tight relations between those that perform within it.
There were three dominant artist groupings during the Brussels Jazz Festival.
Check out Martin Malm’s psychotropic Brakhage-influenced flicks for ‘The Hands’, the boisterously cranky title-track from the forthcoming incendiary Fire! long-player, which drops tomorrow on the formidable Rune Grammofon imprint.
The organisers of this year's sixth edition of the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, which runs from 29 June to 1 July, have confirmed the first big name appearing will be jazz-funk-soul supergroup Earth, Wind and Fire who will headline the closing night.
