RIP Pete Saberton and Tony Marsh.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Ian Mann pays tribute to two respected senior figures of British jazz.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Ian Mann pays tribute to two respected senior figures of British jazz.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
On April 24th, 2012, Smithsonian Folkways will release ?Satchmo at the National Press Club: Red Beans and Rice-ly Yours,? a recording of one of jazz legend Louis Armstrong?s last concerts.
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Rachel Shimell has contacted us with the result of this competition to select a British blues act to perform at the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada in September.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Kairos 4tet have been forced to cancel their UK spring tour due to an injury sustained by their leader,saxophonist and composer Adam Waldmann. Adam's statement regarding the cancellation is attached.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
US resident Tom Rabone is trying to contact his former school teacher Eddie Matthews who taught Tom in Birmingham in the 1960's.Tom believes that Eddie may still be playing jazz in the West Midlands.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Live jazz at The Queens Head in Monmouth is under threat. We have received the attached email which I feel also epitomises the economic problems facing the British jazz scene as a whole.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
A fund raising event featuring Groove Armada held at Ronnie Scott's in London raised ?22k thereby staving off the closure of the acclaimed Doncaster Youth Jazz Association.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Improvising saxophonist John Butcher is seeking photographs of him together with Mark Sanders from their duo set at the 2010 Freedom of the City Festival to be used on the cover of a planned album.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Allan Dickie of the Shrewsbury Jazz Network has informed us of the passing of Midlands based jazz pianist Archie Cotterrell.
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Ian Mann on the passing of a jazz great.
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A Yuletide celebration championing the work of Back Mountain Jazz's youth jazz ensemble the BMJazz Katz and their tutors, the BMJ Collective.
Ian Mann on the final day of the Festival and performances by the Royal Academy Jazz Orchestra, Billy Marrows / Max Kahn Duo, Terje Isungset's Ice Quartet and Seb Rochford's Finding Ways.
Ian Mann on the avant rock of Tortoise at the Barbican followed by three very different big band performances forming part of the Guildhall Jazz Festival at Milton Court.