Six-time Grammy Award-winning sax supremo David Sanborn is among several new additions joining the stellar line-up for the Contemporary Jazz Cruise, which sails from 4 to 11 February 2017 with some some of the biggest names from the US jazz scene also on board and performing concerts each day.
Held in one building across one weekend, Gateshead International Jazz Festival is small by UK standards, but it’s always so impressively comprehensive.
A new exhibition of original Miles Davis art work is being held at the Dundas Street Gallery in Edinburgh from 25-30 April to coincide with the premiere of the new film Miles Ahead, which runs in Glasgow during the same period.
If you were to sum up Shift, the Blue Note debut from Logan Richardson, in a single word it would have to be ‘energy’.
The 12th Gateshead International Jazz Festival, takes place this weekend from 15-17 April at the Sage Gateshead venue, with a vibrant mix of marquee names and cutting edge collaborations.
In anticipation of its official opening in UK cinemas next Friday, Don Cheadle's new impressionistic Miles Davis film, Miles Ahead, has an exclusive preview screening at the Rio Cinema in Dalston this Sunday 17 April at 3pm.
A cracking unreleased live session, originally recorded in 1974 for the BBC Radio 2 show Jazz Club, by late great Brit-jazz trumpeter Harry Beckett is to be issued on vinyl for the first time.
West Coast sax colossus Kamasi Washington is set to build on his emphatic arrival in 2015, which saw his debut spiritual jazz triple-album The Epic winning Jazzwise Album of the Year and achieving huge crossover success to rock and dance audiences worldwide, when he returns to the UK in June for a series of festival appearances across the summer.
Madcap conjurors of kinetic chaos WorldService Project embark on a UK tour, which kicks off tomorrow in York, in support of their new album on RareNoiseRecords, For King And Country.
Madcap conjurors of kinetic chaos World Service Project embark on a UK tour, which kicks off tomorrow in York, in support of their new album on RareNoiseRecords, For King And Country.
