Jo Harrop in Gateshead (see below). Photo Ken Drew courtesy of Lance Liddle Wednesday 2 October – Pete Bernstein / Jim Mullen are at the 606 Wednesday 2 October – Alexander Hawkins / Marco Colonna are ...

“It was probably the high point of my musical life”, says American pianist and composer Richie Beirach of his experience performing in Japan with Wayne Shorter in 1987. Beirach writes a personal ...

“A hot favourite for album of the year 2024.” An incredible fifteen-minute eulogy (in German) to Norma Winstone and Kit Downes and their new ECM album “Outpost of Dreams” from all three completely ...

Thursday 10 August – Elaine Delmar, John Pearce, Simon Thorpe, Bobby Worth are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR Thursday 10 August – Tara Minton is ...

READ ELSEWHERE The full line-up for the Cheltenham Jazz Festival is announced (above L-R: Sophie Ellis Bextor, Jordan Rakei, Gregory Porter, Dionne Warwick…) and tickets go on general sale on… ...

Iver Cardas (Norway) has just won First Prize in the 4th International Jarek Śmietana Jazz Guitar Competition in Kraków. Born in a small town north of Oslo, music is in Cardas’s blood: […] Iver Cardas ...

Wednesday 23 August – Harpist & singer Tara Minton joins up with saxophonist/composer Nick Willsher with their latest project, “Where the Ocean meets the Sky” are at the 606 Wednesday 23 August – The ...

Wednesday 10 April – Italian jazz & neo soul vocalist Francesca Confortini is at the 606 Wednesday 10 April – Loz Speyer is at the Vortex Wednesday 10 April – Footprints Jazz Quartet at MAP NW5 3DU ...

Posts about clement regert written by londonjazzThe GAB Trio – The GAB Album (Top End Records TGT01CD. Album review by Bruce Lindsay) The GAB Album, recorded in one day at the Cowshed studio, is the ...

Posts about Ananda Brandao written by londonjazzPolish jazz writer Krzysztof Komorek came from Łódź to London to attend and review the Emma Rawicz residency at Pizza Express Jazz Club for the site ...

Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves in — his main focus being ...

John Fordham’s album of the month in the Guardian is Grégoire Maret & Romain Collin’s Ennio (ACT) – read more …also mentioned in his selection are Rachel Z (Dot Time), Lucien Johnson’s Ancient Relics ...