Courtney Pine’s House of Legends band brought the curtain down on the fourth edition of Bristol’s Jazz and Blues Festival on Sunday night.
Anniversaries abound tonight in Oslo with both the Rockefeller Music Hall celebrating its 30th year as a much cherished live venue in the heart of this most urbane of capital cities, and the native Jazzland Records marking its 20th birthday with a stellar line-up of emerging and established talents for a varicoloured showcase that played to a packed and typically diverse home crowd.
The grand walrus of Wuppertal, saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, is set to shred synapses at this year’s FurtureEverything Festival where he’ll be joined by pedal steel pioneer Heather Leigh.
Zhenya Strigalev launches his new album for Whirlwind Recordings at Ronnie Scott’s on Sunday 3 April.
The first names have been announced for this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival, which takes place over 10 days from 11 to 20 November, and includes a rare UK appearance from sax giant Wayne Shorter with his celebrated Quartet on the closing night at the Barbican on 20 November.
Alexandra Ridout looked as if she didn’t quite believe what she had just heard as Julian Joseph, the chair of the judging panel, declared her the winner of the second BBC Young Musician Jazz Award.
The details of the new BBC Radio 3 Monday night jazz programme, Jazz Now, which replaces Jazz On 3, have been confirmed, with its first edition set to air on 4 April at 11pm.
Great news for avant-enthusiasts comes with the announcement that legendary label P.
Choir Eclectic Voices (EV, pictured left) will perform some of the ‘most important music’ Duke Ellington ever wrote as part of a free Good Friday celebration at the American Church.
Australian architects of the slow reveal The Necks and venturesome ecclesiastically-inclined organist James McVinnie come together for The Secret Life Of Organs, a series of performances taking in some of the UK’s most impressive instruments.
