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Rudy Van Gelder 02/11/1924 – 25/08/2016
Friday 26-08-2016 11:44
The news of recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s passing at the age of 91 on the morning of 25 August will be felt by the whole jazz community. This is a rarity for someone who was essentially one of the backroom boys of the music. Yet since the 1940s, when...Bitch ’n’ Monk roll up for Rich Mix album launch
Friday 26-08-2016 11:15
Experimental London-based duo Bitch ’n’ Monk – aka Heidi Heidelberg (lead vocals, guitars, percussion) and Mauricio Velasierra (Quena, Sikus, Mozeño, vocals) – are set to release their highly-charged debut album We Are Peering Over on 30 September, with an...Saxophonist Trygve Seim shines at Oslo Jazz Fest
Thursday 25-08-2016 14:44
A fascinating ‘off-piste’ event at this densely packed six-day programme is a visit to Rainbow studio in an unprepossessing suburb of the Norwegian capital. A tour of the ‘live’ room and control booth in the company of master engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug is a...Duncan Eagles takes Ram Jam Club to new dimensions
Thursday 25-08-2016 09:58
Saxophonist Duncan Eagles is set to present a new weekly night at the Ram Jam Club at the Grey Horse pub in Kingston Upon Thames under the banner of Inventions & Dimensions. The venue has long hosted jazz nights and was where Eagles first launched his...Toots Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016)
Monday 22-08-2016 15:06
In music, the award for the “most famous Belgian” probably goes to Jacques Brel, unless you count the birthplace of Django Reinhardt who was a member of the traveller community. It was Reinhardt who inspired Belgian-born Jean-Baptiste 'Toots' Thielemans in...Sloth Racket Autumn 2016 tour announced
Monday 22-08-2016 14:47
Genre-splitting UK heavy-hitters Sloth Racket stash their backpacks and hit the highroad for an Autumn tour following the release of their mightily impressive self-released debut, Triptych.
Go see the incendiary quintet of Cath Roberts (baritone sax), Sam...Miles smiles at the latest Bootleg Series Vol 5: Freedom Jazz Dance
Thursday 18-08-2016 15:35
The latest volume of the Columbia/Legacy’s Grammy award winning Miles Davis Bootleg Series, Miles Davis Quintet Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series Vol 5, has just been announced for release on 21 October, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the October...Kurt Elling says OKeh
Wednesday 17-08-2016 12:35
Hot on the heels of his recent collaborative album with saxophonist Branford Marsalis, Upward Spiral, released on OKeh/Sony Music masterworks, the multi Grammy award-winning jazz singer and composer Kurt Elling has signed to OKeh.
The acclaimed singer, who...It's not just mums that love Iceland: Einar Scheving and John Hollenbeck at Jazzhatid Reykjavik
Wednesday 17-08-2016 11:55
Displayed in shop windows all over the Icelandic capital Reykjavik are large format pictures of the footballers who made the nation proud at this year’s European Championship, as England, victims of these hardy giant killers, know only too well. And the...Nikki Yeoh and Cyrus Chestnut contrast key notes at Ronnie’s International Piano Trio Festival
Tuesday 16-08-2016 15:51
The piano trio form is expanding in all sorts of directions these days, from the metric perambulations of Vijay Iyer to the deep Zen grooves of The Necks. At last night’s opening gig of the International Piano Trio Festival, a neat bit of programming...
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Bitch ’n’ Monk roll up for Rich Mix album launch https://t.co/xIk9zvM6ey https://t.co/4VUHZSTZ3I
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RIP Rudy Van Gelder 02/11/1924 – 25/08/2016 https://t.co/CFjeOZ1RaB https://t.co/mORjVfNRHa
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Saxophonist Trygve Seim shines at Oslo Jazz Fest https://t.co/sqe7X41MwZ @oslojazz @ECMRecords @TrygveSeim https://t.co/F5uFDUxGjN