Grooving in Glynde – Ciro Romano talks about five years of Love Supreme Jazz Festival
- Tuesday, June 27, 2017
The Love Supreme jazz festival enters its fifth year as a unique, fixed point in the UK jazz calendar.
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Oli Rockberger video exclusive ahead of album and live dates
- Monday, June 26, 2017
British soul-jazz singer/pianist Oli Rockberger is set to release his new album, Sovereign, on 20 October on the Whirlwind Recordings label.
Brigitte Beraha and John Turville create live jazz score for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg screening
- Monday, June 26, 2017
An unmissable special screening of the 1964 French New Wave jazz musical classic Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) with an exclusive 'live' jazz performance will take place next Sunday 2 July at the Cine Lumiere in Kensington.
Campaign builds to rename Williamsburg Bridge in Sonny Rollins’ honour
- Friday, June 23, 2017
It's been four years since Sonny Rollins, 86, last took to the stage, but the Newk remains as newsworthy as ever.
Boogie at the Bandstand – the Love Supreme low-down
- Thursday, June 22, 2017
Ahead of the start next week of the fifth edition of the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Bandstand programmer Eddie Myer previews the exciting emerging artists who'll be performing across the weekend This year's Love Supreme line-up is the festival's most exciting and eclectic yet, with the trademark mix of big name headliners, led this year by the mighty George Benson and soul-jazz vocal star Gregory Porter, and more esoteric jazz acts, augmented for the first time this year by a new Jazz In The...
Tin Men and the Telephone and Tord Gustavsen for Ronnie’s Piano Trio Fest
- Wednesday, June 21, 2017
The fourth edition of the Ronnie Scott's International Piano Trio Festival 2017 runs from 21 to 26 August with a plethora of pianistic talent from home and abroad, across opening, main and late show sets each night.
Marcus Miller, Chick Corea and Charles Lloyd top Blue Note at Sea cruise 2018
- Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Following the success of the inaugural Blue Note at Sea cruise which took place earlier this year, dates have just been announced for the 2018 cruise which will sail from Fort Lauderdale, Florida from 27 January to 3 February featuring a world class roster of jazz names, including headliners Marcus Miller (above), Chick Corea, Charles Lloyd and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
Alice and John Coltrane Celebration, Nik Bärtsch and Eliane Elias added to EFG London Jazz Festival
- Monday, June 19, 2017
A raft of new concert hall additions have been announced for this year's 25th anniversary EFG London Jazz Festival, which runs from 10 to 19 November.
Laila Biali and Idang Rasjidi Syndicate shine at Borneo Jazz Festival
- Monday, June 19, 2017
Set against the lush tropical gardens that stretch down from the Borneo Jazz Festival stage to a palm-fringed white sand beach where the delicate oud-sounding curlicues of Chung YuFeng's Chinese lute-like pipa spin fleetingly around Michael Simon's plangent flugelhorn, it's hard not to concur with the knowing words of keyboard player and bandleader Idang Rasjidi, the erstwhile godfather of Indonesian jazz: "America does not own jazz anymore, the world now owns it.
Doom Crooners Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones: Torch Song Cult
- Friday, June 16, 2017
Britanny-based brigands Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones have forged a distinctly noir amalgam of Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Scott Walker, David Sylvian, Frank Sinatra and Fennesz on their latest showpiece, Astrild Astrild, released by the Denovali label.