The great arranger Bill Holman passed away at the age of 96 last Monday. A three-time Grammy Award winner nominated on sixteen occasions, he was at the forefront of West Coast Jazz in the fifties and helped to shape the [...]
American tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is considered to be one of the great saxophonists of the post-Coltrane generation, as well as one of the most distinguished educators in modern jazz. Each year, he embarks on a short tour of the [...]
Northern-based saxophonist Rob Cope pursued both classical studies (at the Royal Northern College of Music from 2006 to 2010), and then jazz studies (at the Royal Academy of Music from 2010 to 2012). His latest album Gemini (releasing 12 Jan [...]
American-born drummer Jeff Williams has enjoyed an illustrious fifty-year career playing with the likes of Stan Getz, Joe Lovano and Lee Konitz. A founding member of the acclaimed quartet Lookout Farm (with Dave Liebman, Richie Beirach and Frank Tusa), he [...]
Pizza Express has announced the line-up for the next Steinway 2-Piano Festival, taking place in March 2024. The unusual names for London here are LA studio veteran Don Grusin, younger brother of GRP co-founder Dave Grusin, who is appearing in [...]
American pianist and composer Joey Calderazzo alongside British bassist Orlando le Fleming (based in New York for many years, now living in the UK again) and American drummer Donald Edwards concluded an almost three week tour of Europe at PizzaExpress [...]
American drummer, composer and educator Billy Drummond made his London debut as a leader at PizzaExpress Soho last night as part of the 2023 EFG London Jazz Festival. A veteran of the New York scene mentored by the likes of [...]
Pocket Jazz is a new online jazz course created by Arizona-based trombonist and Music Savvy founder Michael Lake. It aims to deepen a musician’s understanding of some of the more complex aspects to playing jazz, providing for those who enrol [...]
As the title of pianist/arranger Hans Koller‘s latest album indicates, Word from Bird has a Charlie (‘Bird’) Parker theme to all of its tracks. The German-born, London-based pianist assembled a thirteen-piece jazz orchestra comprised of like-minded players (full list below) [...]
The great American pianist Richie Beirach has said of Moscow-born pianist Regina Litvinova: “She was already a fully developed musician when she first came to me as a student in Leipzig. Now she is my colleague and I learn a [...]
