The Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble’s bandleader and arranger Sean Khan spoke to UK Jazz News about the ensemble’s unique mix of folk music and jazz, the involvement of folk legends Dave Pegg and Jacqui McShee, and the programme he’s [...]
The Tom Smith Big Band will release its debut album, A Year in the Life, on 21 February 2025. Saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader Tom Smith spoke with UK Jazz News about the performance, the album, and his own strategy [...]
The Down for the Count Swing Orchestra will be touring with Swing Into Christmas! until 28 December, bringing its own brand of festive musical cheer to audiences across the UK. Mike Paul-Smith, its musical director, spoke to UK Jazz News [...]
The seventeen-piece Big Colors Big Band, led by trumpeter David Shires, makes a rare live appearance when it plays Jazz Café POSK in November with a programme drawn from some of the jazz greats of the mid-twentieth century. David spoke [...]
Seven years. It doesn’t seem likely, but it is, indeed, seven years since the Neil Cowley Trio decided to take a break, a short while after releasing Spacebound Apes. Now the trio has returned, with Entity, and it’s extremely good [...]
Jazz Café POSK opens its autumn season with the inaugural POSK Festival of Jazz Voice on 4 and 5 October. It will feature a unique performance of an “Inspirations” programme by Norma Winstone “with songs that she seldom performs on [...]
Saxophonist, composer and arranger Asha Parkinson draws on influences from many musical styles and cultures to create her own distinctive body of work. Ahead of the release of Possession, her debut album, Parkinson spoke about her musical development, the creation [...]
BOP Jazz Theatre Company will present Jazz Conversations, “a double bill of soulful jazz dance and live jazz music,” at The Place, London, on 20 and 21 September. The programme combines two of BOP Jazz Theatre Company’s best-loved jazz dance [...]
It was a lovely summer’s evening, the skies above the river and reed beds outside Snape Maltings were empty and silent, but inside the concert hall the audience was filling the seats in expectation of a great night of music, [...]
Joni Mitchell has been famous for almost sixty years. Her early albums such as Blue, Court & Spark and Hejira soundtracked the lives of many who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. Even though only one single, “Big Yellow [...]
