Twenty years in and the Cheltenham Jazz Festival shows no sign of flagging as one of its most eclectic line-ups to date painted a picture of jazz’s increasingly broad reach and the fervently adventurous, envelope-pushing approach of many of its practitioners today.
As part of its weekly series of Jazz Shapers interviews on JazzFM, Director of Business Development at Mischon de Reya, Elliot Moss, spoke to chairman and owner of Jazzwise magazine, Mark Allen.
Congratulations to composer/saxophonist Anthony Braxton (pictured) and Parliament/Funkadelic key crew member Bernie Worrell, who are among New England Conservatory's 2016 Honorary Degree recipients.
Ahead of a forthcoming tour focused on his much-praised 2013 album Places of Worship, Jazzwise put some questions to prodigious Norwegian trumpeter and sonic explorer extraordinaire Arve Henriksen: Already this year you’ve played in many different contexts and format; as a soloist, with Supersilent and while recording with Trio Mediaeval and various small improv groupings, while even finding the time to toot the ice trumpet at the Ice Music Festival.
Presenting pioneering international guitarists alongside their Irish contemporaries, Bottlenote, in association with Improvised Music Company and Note Productions, have gathered a summit of imperious axe-angled individuality for the inaugural String Theory Festival, hosted at the enigmatic Georgian residence 13 North Great George Street, Dublin between Friday 20 May and Saturday 21 May.
The third edition of the Jazz FM Awards took place tonight at the Bloomsbury Ballroom, Victoria House, London, highlighting a diverse mix of UK and US jazz, soul and blues talent.
Swiss surveyors of superior jazz sides Intakt are set for a series of colossal happenings in London next year.
This year’s EFG London Jazz Festival, which runs between 11 to 20 November, is starting to shape up as the next wave of names are confirmed with some exciting new additions.
Oscar-nominated actor and director Don Cheadle’s recent cinematic release Miles Ahead is an unusual, impressionistic collage of biopic and fictitious action movie.
First lady of jazz Liane Carroll leads the legendary Human Revolution Orchestra in their delivery of an ‘Ode To The Human Spirit’ at London’s Shaw Theatre on 30 April.
