Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club are set to get the new year fired up with several key January bookings including a three-day 'Weekender' from acclaimed jazz-soul singer Natalie Williams and her Soul Family 10-piece, who celebrate the decade milestone of their monthly residency at the club on 6 to 8 January with special guest vocalists soon to be announced.
Drummer, composer and bandleader Ollie Howell, a rising star in the UK, is taking a step on the path to international prominence with a three-month engagement at Quincy Jones's intimate new venue, Q's Bar and Lounge, in the unlikely setting of the über-luxurious Palazzo Versace hotel in Dubai.
The South Coast Jazz Festival, which runs from 16 to 29 January 2017 and is co-curated by acclaimed singer Claire Martin (above centre) and saxophonist Julian Nichols, shakes off the January blues in no uncertain terms with a vibrant expanded third edition now including a busy six-nights at Brighton's burgeoning dedicated jazz venue, The Verdict.
Black Star, the BFI's high-profile celebration of African-American and Black British cinema that has been running for the past few months, is given a major shot in the arm tonight.
Hot ticket US guitarist, composer and producer Jeff Parker follows a blistering run of record form in 2016 – check out both his bewitching solo set The New Breed and The Catastrophist, which saw him again take his place beside influential post-rock troupers Tortoise – with news of a highly-anticipated appearance at Ronnie Scott's on Sunday 2 April 2017.
A special screening celebrating the 30th anniversary of French director Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight will take place at the Lumiere at the French Institute in Kensington on Sunday 11th December 4.
The headliners for the 2017 Gateshead International Jazz Festival have been announced for the festival's 13th edition, which runs from 31 March to 2 April, with a hugely diverse genre-hopping line-up.
Southport's Jazz on a Winter's Weekend returns for an impressive 13th edition between 2-5 February 2017.
Jazzwise magazine marks its 20th anniversary in 2017 with a colossal celebration of contemporary UK jazz from the past two decades at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club from 13-18 March.
Confront Recordings maintain their recent run of form by issuing the debut album from American cellist Seth Parker Woods.
