An extra date has been added to multi-Grammy Award-winning keyboard kingpin Robert Glasper’s autumn tour with his highly-charged Experiment Band, on 14 November at KOKO in Camden, which is in addition to their almost sold-out KOKO show on 15 November.
A tightly-packed bar area and the audible noise of the air conditioning says that this is a summer gig in east London that has drawn a crowd.
The Sud Tirol area of Italy is unlike any other area of that country I’ve visited.
The TW12 Jazz Festival returns for its fourth edition from 21 to 24 July – kicking off with its traditional free-entry opening night jam session led by up-and-coming guitarist Leo Appleyard at the Hampton Pub, and closing on Sunday 24 July with acclaimed guitarist/composer Femi Temowo’s Trio accompanied by three brass and four string players from the Engines Orchestra on material from his new album, The Music Is The Feeling.
“The real people come out early,” says a smiling Kamasi Washington, “we’re going to take you on a little journey.
Multi-award winning saxophonist and broadcaster Soweto Kinch is set to present the sixth edition of his Flyover Show, the renowned one-day music, art and dance event, on 20 August which according to Kinch transforms ‘the grey space beneath the Hockley Flyover into an oasis of cultural expression’ – with the last show in 2012 attracting 6,000 people.
Living legends are precariously placed, the march of years conspiring to mutilate memories of achievements past.
Multi Grammy award-winning bass icon, band leader and producer Marcus Miller heads up the programme for the fifth edition of the Saint-Émilion Jazz Festival, an essential destination for jazz and wine lovers that runs in the historic French town from 22-24 July.
As the Tour de France departs and the Icelanders lick their Gallic wounds, a surreal event celebrating Billy Jenkins’ 60th birthday occurs at The Vortex in North London – in the absence of Mr Jenkins himself.
In the packed-out, pumped-up Big Top tent, the four sacred notes of the Coltrane tune which gave this festival its name and ethos are being picked out.
