Brigitte Berman’s documentary ‘Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got’ won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film in 1986 but has not been screened since 1987. It will be shown in a newly restored version – in fact it [...]
Tony Kinsey, who died earlier this month, was a member of the Way Out West collective of musicians in South West London, founded in 2004. Five musicians and friends who are fellow members of the collective – Chris Biscoe, Pete [...]
Sara Colman is part of the team offering a new jazz course for young people in Birmingham. “All the places are fully funded so that there are absolutely no barriers to anyone taking part.” The first edition will be during [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with saxophonist, arranger, and composer Pureum Jin, baritone saxophonist Lauren Sevian, and saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator Erena Terakubo. They are three fourths of The Empress, an all-female saxophone quartet, [...]
Canadian vocalist Gillian Margot and American pianist Geoffrey Keezer are acclaimed both as individuals and as a duo, in music and in life. Geoffrey has been a major figure in New York’s jazz piano scene since 1989, when he became [...]
Spanish trumpeter/vocalist Andrea Motis, a star of the European jazz scene, wrote one of the early pieces in Nicky Schrire’s Mothers in Jazz/ Parents in Jazz series in February 2023. Two years on, she reflects further on the themes of [...]
Drummer and bandleader Matt Skelton has put together a new programme for quintet, in celebration of the work of drumming legend Shelly Manne, and of the five volumes of ‘At the Blackhawk’ records that are – Matt says “the centrepiece [...]
Piano/vocal powerhouse Philippa Healey is bringing her high energy, funk-as-hell original music to London this March. With a stellar line-up of musicians, including legendary bassist Paul Turner and drummer Derrick McKenzie, these shows are a must see! Philippa has had [...]
I am very excited to announce that the Elaine Delmar Quintet is performing for our Herne Bay Jazz Festival 2025 benefit concert in partnership with The Kings Hall, in Herne Bay, Kent, on Friday 28th February 2025. Following her sold-out [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with pianist, composer, arranger, and educator Caili O’Doherty. Her new album, Bluer Than Blue, out 7 March via Outside In Music, celebrates the legacy of pianist, composer, and arranger Lil Hardin Armstrong. [...]
