Brown’s Hotel has been called the jewel in the crown of luxury hotels in London. …and on Tuesdays to Thursday evenings from 1 October to 19 December, its welcoming Drawing Room, which is normally known as one of the poshest [...]
Lyrics by Sting, Joe Jackson and Kent-based singer-songwriter-activist Nina Clark feature alongside those of Great American Songbook contributors Lorenz Hart and Sammy Kahn and the singer himself in Kurt Elling’s latest concerts with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Kurt Elling, [...]
Shez Raja writes: “I’m thrilled to share the news about a homecoming show that holds a lot of significance for me. “On Saturday 28 September I’ll be performing at Future Yard in the Wirral, NW England – the area where [...]
Sometimes two kindred spirits can follow long playing trajectories and reach similar points in jazz’s vast musical landscape. So it is with saxophonist Jon Lloyd and pianist John Law, who first worked together nearly 35 years ago. Their current quartet [...]
Saxophonist Helena Kay and pianist Zoe Rahman will be appearing as a duo next month, as the first of the the new Jazz Thursdays series which she curates at Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh. Helena Kay will relive a moment from [...]
For Tim Garland‘s gig at World HeartBeat on 6 September, his Lighthouse Trio – with Gwilym Simcock and Asaf Sirkis – will be joined by Yazz Ahmed. There is also going to be a pre-concert session beforehand in which Yazz [...]
Seven concerts… seventeen (so far) listed musicians. Lists below… Derek Hook started the Ambleside Days Festival, “a Contemporary Music Festival in the heart of the English Lake District”, in 2017. This year’s edition builds to a large ensemble concert [...]
A new restaurant and live music venue offering “jazz, soul, gospel, reggae and much more”, Soul Mama, will open next month at The Gantry Hotel, Stratford with an opening season programme which includes Yellowjackets (3 Nov, two houses) and Bill [...]
Gaume Jazz reaches its 40th edition in 2024. Which is all the more impressive because the festival resolutely remains outside the mainstream, and has had the same artistic director, Jean-Pierre Bissot, since the start. It takes place in the village [...]
