Latest Jazz News from London and beyond
This is just to wish the very great Gary Crosby a very happy 70th birthday today. Double bassist… composer… arranger… educator..possibly the most influential and definitely one of the nicest, kindest and most thoughtful people on the UK jazz scene. [...]
Vuelio, “the leading UK provider of PR & media solutions: media database, media monitoring, press release distribution and campaign analysis” keep a database of 11,000 UK blogs and rank them by category, including an annual ranking of the Top 10 [...]
The screening of “Whiplash’ with a live band (image above) is the sixth of a series of events in Barbican Hall in the months February-March 2025: Here is the list – the link below goes through to the homepages for [...]
‘ Today, on what would have been Kenny Wheeler’s 95th birthday, Brian Shaw and I are proud to announce that our biography (in the works for over ten years!) will be available in print and digitally soon from Equinox publications. [...]
Sebastian writes: I am incredibly sad to hear of the death of a huge supporter of jazz in this country, a fervent supporter of this site and a wonderful and loyal friend to me and the team, Martin Hummel. Martin [...]
We are very sad to hear of the death yesterday of an important figure in British music, pianist/composer/arranger/ music director Laurie Holloway at the age of 86. Our condolences to his daughters Abigail – a consistent friend and wonderful supporter [...]
Huge congratulations to a pivotal figure in jazz in Northern Ireland, Dr Linley Hamilton, on being awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List.
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Musicians remember bassist Barre Phillips, who died this weekend at the age of 90. Evan Parker writes “Barre was a wise head and a great bass player and I was privileged to play with him.” From a younger generation, French [...]
The Grassroots Jazz Charity currently has a raffle, with seven prizes on offer including: The raffle will close on Monday, 13 January 2025 at 19:27 – or when the last ticket is sold (whichever is sooner) 100% of proceeds go [...]
A good friend to UKJN, Jay Visvadeva, has sent us this sad news this morning, after a day in which premature reports of Zakir Hussain’s death had been rife: “TABLA MAESTRO USTAD ZAKIR HUSSAIN HAS LEFT THE STAGE He passed [...]
