This year's 10th edition of the Made in the UK series at New York's Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, will be the first since its founder, John Ellson, passed away last year.
Jazzwise can exclusively announce that Django Bates, cover star of the June issue of Jazzwise (on-sale 25 May), is set to release Saluting Sgt.
Brit-jazz sax great John Surman has won the Ivors Jazz Award this year – in only the second time the award has ever been presented since the composing honours were first created by British Academy Of Songwriters Composers & Authors (BASCA) in 1956.
Having been a fan of Polly Gibbons' vocal and songwriting artistry ever since a review copy of her debut What's The Real Reason popped through my letterbox back in 2006, this UK launch of her latest album on Resonance Records, Is It Me.
Sax powerhouse Colin Stetson plays a one-off solo show in support of his latest long-player All This I Do For Glory at Brighton's historic Duke Of York's Picture House.
Those genre-bending bastions of the UK's new jazz wave LUME are back for a second iteration of their annual fest, which again takes place at London's IKLECTIK space, this time on the weekend of 24-25 June.
Some exciting international jazz names are among the latest additions to this year's 25th anniversary edition of the EFG London Jazz Festival, which takes over the capital's major concert halls, jazz clubs and free-stage spaces from 10 to 19 November.
The line-up has been announced for this year's Manchester Jazz Festival, which takes place over 10 days and nights from 28 July to 6 August at concert halls, clubs and public spaces around the city.
One of the capital's lesser known jazz venues, Toulouse Lautrec, within walking distance of both Elephant & Castle and Kennington tubes, has nonetheless steadily burnished its credentials over a number of years.
When a top vocalist is in such high demand and performing in various places with local musicians, it must be frustrating not to have sufficient opportunity to rehearse, especially unfamiliar material.
