With the eagerly-anticipated Miles Ahead movie set for UK release on 22 April, Columbia/Legacy are releasing a brace of reverently-related boons celebrating the great innovator, which also serve to mark the trumpet titan’s 90th birthday on 26 May.
Bristol’s Fringe Jazz moved in January, back round the corner to the bar in Clifton Village from which it takes its name.
The eighth annual Steinway Festival at Pizza Express Jazz Club opened with a two piano performance from Robert Mitchell and Jason Moran.
Stellar names for this year’s Steinway Festival, which kicks of next week at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho between 7-13 March, include Keith Tippett, Howard Riley, Liane Carroll, Joe Stilgoe and, jeepers, Rick Wakeman, in attendance with piano-playing offspring Adam.
Former EST drummer and solo artist Magnus Öström is set to return with Parachute, his third album, which is released on 1 April on Diesel Music, the same label that released EST’s album EST Plays Monk some 20 years ago.
The winning pieces of the 2016 Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition were premièred at a gala concert in the Laban Theatre, attended by no less than three Dankworths (Jacqui, Alec and Emily), in what was a great showcase for emerging UK jazz talent.
Architects of absurdist improv Alterations are back following last year’s inspiring adventures in the company of Max Eastley at Cafe OTO and IKLECTIK.
You can’t twirl a drumstick tonight without thwacking a musician, promoter, journalist or other notable from the London jazz scene.
Two especially juicy contemporary jazz jousts hit the north this month via the not-for-profit joint Band on the Wall.
Walk down the slope of subway 4 to reach the belly of one of east central London’s busiest thoroughfares and the noise of late night traffic gives way to the sound of a horn.
