Further bookings have been announced for this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival, which takes place from 11 to 20 November, with concert hall and club names hotting up.
Some of the jazz world’s biggest names headline the Love Supreme Jazz Festival this weekend from 1 to 3 July in the idyllic location of Glynde Place in the South Downs, East Sussex.
The London jazz scene was shocked by the news that much respected photographer Benjamin Amure died on the morning of Friday 24 June.
Alto saxophonist and composer Zhenya Strigalev takes out his Never Group Trio for a UK tour in July.
This year's Love Supreme Jazz Festival will host an outstanding line-up of jazz artists, including Kamasi Washington (pictured), Jacob Collier, St Germain, Esperanza Spalding, GoGo Penguin and Cécile McLorin Salvant.
The Canary Wharf Jazz Festival marks its tenth year as one of the capital’s biggest free-entry jazz events on 20 and 21 August with an eclectic line-up of rising stars and established names from the current British jazz scene.
The sixth edition of the Herts Jazz Festival, which takes place from 16-18 September at the Hawthorne Theatre at Campus West, Welwyn Garden City, features a strong line-up of mainstream and contemporary jazz.
The Bard of Bromley, Billy Jenkins, is the subject of a musical celebration taking place at The Vortex on a fittingly independent 4 July.
The 15th edition of Rochester Jazz Festival, which runs over nine days and nights from 24 June to 2 July, once again features a strong Made in the UK series with a wide range of British artists performing each night at the city’s Christ Church, located at East Avenue, New York.
John Martin takes his decidedly contemporary-sounding quintet out on the road in support of new release The Hidden Notes – Spirit Of Adventure, an album carrying a titular tribute to the saxophonist and composer’s self-discovered technique of multiphonics and overtones.
