Nels Cline contributes the one and only outtake from his Lovers suite – a version of that beautiful ballad ‘In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning’ – to a special limited seven-inch issued by Blue Note for Record Store Day (April 22).
Sax-bass-drums trio Partikel return with a new album, Counteraction, set for release on 24 March on Whirlwind Recordings, supporting the release with several UK and European live dates.
Now in its fifth year the Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival has matured well, and this year's programme managed to balance crowd-pleasing headliners and popular mainstream jazz and blues acts with a weekend's worth of well-chosen contemporary jazz action that was gratifyingly well-attended.
Dynamic jazz singer Lauren Dalrymple has hosted her SoFF Music Jam for nearly two decades at The Effra Hall Tavern (aka The Effra), a cosy Victorian pub in Brixton, South London.
Thelonious Monk's only ever soundtrack recording, for the provocative 1959 French feature film Les Liaisons Dangereuses, is set to be released in its entirety on a double LP for the first time, specially for the 10th anniversary of Record Store Day on 22 April.
Port-au-Prince is one of the most intoxicating places I've ever been.
After a stellar performance for a sold-out audience John McLaughlin had more than earned the right to an early night, but his presence at the side of the stage is a notable endorsement for the group that follows him.
The Elgar Room, the Royal Albert Hall's highly accommodating 200-capacity concert space within the main concert hall building, has an exciting and diversely programmed weekly Late Night Jazz series with concerts happening every Thursday.
The weeklong Jazzwise 20th anniversary celebrations kicked off in spectacular style last night.
Evan Parker draws back the veil on the challenges of improvisation during Awkward, a charming and revealing short film produced in 2014 capturing the iconic British saxophonist in intimate conversation and performance at The Vortex Jazz Club alongside John Russell (guitar), John Edwards (double-bass), Adam Linson (double-bass) and Matt Wright (turntables).
