Phronesis, one of Europe’s most exciting and dynamic piano trios, are set to make a very rare London club appearance on Saturday 17 September as part of the weeklong Sounds of Denmark mini-festival that runs from 16 to 22 September at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho.
Thomas Rees reflects on a festival made in the image of its eccentric and uncompromising founder and on sets from Avishai Cohen, Chico Freeman and Herbie Hancock, with Kendrick Lamar-collaborator Terrace Martin I never met Claude Nobs, the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Emerging jazz guitar talent Rob Luft has been awarded this year’s Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize, the winner of which is selected from graduating musicians from the Royal Academy of Music.
When Bill Evans got the phone call from Mike Stern’s wife Leni the night before this supergroup’s whizz around Europe, he would have been expecting a last-minute logistical check; not the news that Mike had fallen in the street while hailing a taxi and broken several bones in both shoulders.
Music is a resilient force in times of adversity, having a habit of kicking against the trend of contraction, opening things up to offer an alternative perspective.
Jazzwise went for another midweek hit at the behemoth Montreal Jazz Festival this year, Monday 4 July (escaping Stateside anti-colonial explosions) thru 7 Thursday.
A very special screening of a new release Born to Be Blue, based on the life of the troubled iconic trumpeter Chet Baker will take place this Sunday 31 July at the Rio Cinema in Dalston.
This barnstorming festival was celebrating its 15th edition, taking over the downtown entertainment district of this comparatively small city that’s so far north it’s almost on the Canadian border.
The 21st edition of the Manchester Jazz Festival kicks off today with the news that the city-wide event has won the Europe Jazz Network’s Award for Adventurous Programming, making it the first UK promoter to win this prestigious prize.
This year’s Dartington International Summer School & Festival takes place from 30 July to 26 August with four weeks of intensive daytime music workshops and high-calibre evening concerts across classical, jazz, folk, poetry and creative writing disciplines.
