In March 1961 the Duke Ellington band were given two weeks off mid-European tour, to allow Ellington to complete work on the soundtrack to the film Paris Blues. The band used the time to go on the road under Johnny [...]
Mondays With Morgan is a column in UKJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves him – his main focus being the scene in nearby [...]
Marc Ribot’s heavily rhythmic, slightly distorted electric guitar sound is rooted in rock and the bluesier end of Americana as much as jazz, and the first half of this assertive set from his long-running trio leans towards the rock elements [...]
The third edition of the ten-day Sicilia Jazz Festival in Palermo, with headliners such as Marcus Miller and Gregory Porter, was a success. Francesco Ragni(*), who attended the first four days, reports. In a Palermo crowded with tourists, with a [...]
In a special edition of Classic Music Sundays for the Spitalfields Festival, MOBO award-winning jazz saxophonist, MC, broadcaster, composer and alumnus of Tomorrow’s Warriors, Soweto Kinch, discussed tracks from composers who have influenced his work with Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy. The [...]
“Mothers In Jazz” is a series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry figures who work with and hire musicians who are [...]
