This year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival has now been rescheduled for July. However, in happier times, the Saturday morning of the festival would always feature a student exchange project which was one of my favourite events. Each year students from Birmingham [...]
Matthew Halpin is a saxophonist, composer and a powerful and imaginative improviser, born in Dublin and now based in Ireland and Germany. Like many creative musicians he spent some time at Berklee and at the Banff centre with Dave Douglas [...]
If you have listened to any amount of music from Norway, there’s a good chance you’ll have heard the bass of Ellen Brekken before. You may have heard her playing electric bass with a heavy rock beat in the Hedvig [...]
The 7Virtual Jazz Club is a global online competition for both professional and amateur musicians and/or bands. UKJazz News interviewed the organiser Valerio Pappi last November here. This year’s competition is now open for entries. The contest is now open [...]
III is the third album from this young Finnish group, led by drummer Joonas Leppänen. He wrote the majority of the tracks, and his writing is delightfully angular, with a noticeable influence from Ornette Coleman. The band consists of an [...]
A new organisation has been set up to address racial inequality in the music industry and create opportunities for Black musicians and professionals. It may seem counter-intuitive to learn that Jazz, a music of black origins, has a lack of [...]
