Multi-award winning German jazz pianist Michael Wollny, the heavy-grooving SFJAZZ Collective and renowned New York saxophonist Donny McCaslin have all been confirmed for this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival, which runs from 11 to 20 November.
On the last night of Serious’ week-long festival at Rich Mix, electronic artist Daedelus and instrumental quintet Kneebody came together to perform their album Kneedelus,released last year on Brainfeeder.
Leading British saxophonist Courtney Pine is taking time out of UK his tour this weekend on Saturday 21 May, to play a special gig at the Harrow Arts Centre, in support of the Harrow-based Cultura London foundation, for which he is a patron.
Renowned Scottish jazz guitarist Jim Mullen is set to discuss his career, early influences and his distinctive musical approach at a free Q&A session, hosted by saxophonist Martin Speake, as part of Trinity Laban’s Inside Out Jazz Festival 2016.
With BBC Radio 3 set to celebrate its 70th anniversary this September, its latest quarterly RAJAR figures have recorded its highest audience reach in three years, just a year on since Alan Davey become controller of the station.
Details have been divulged regarding the who’s-who at the first ever full-blown LUME summit, which takes place at London’s I’klectik Artlab on Sunday 26 June.
LA sax titan Kamasi Washington is set to shake things up in the leafy suburban surroundings of Herne Hill, when he plays an intimate set at the Off the Cuff bar on the evening of his appearance at the Sunfall Festival, Brockwell Park, south London on 9 July.
Few musicians could have experienced a 70th birthday party quite like Duke Ellington.
Often described as ‘chanted drama’, Noh is a Japanese performance art in which music and theatre create something entirely different to western conventions of musical theatre.
