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June 2019 Issue

For adventurous trumpeter Yazz Ahmed music was the key to unlocking her identity as a half...

Eight years on from his Mercury Prize-shortlisted ACT debut, pianist Gwilym Simcock returns with a second solo album for the...

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Ancient To Future Warriors

Celebrating their 50th anniversary, the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago show no signs of slowing down. The group’s new...

Seamus Blake – Blake’s Heaven

Saxophonist Seamus Blake has forged a fearsome rep as a player’s player on his native New York soil, performing with a who’s...

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23-05-2019

Andrew McCormack returns with Graviton: The Calling album and video

Award-winning pianist Andrew McCormack storms back with the second volume of music from his Graviton project, with new album The Calling, released on 7 June on the Ubuntu Music imprint. The pianist’s band now features Brit-jazz rhythm section kings Tom Herbert on bass and Joshua Blackmore on drum...

22-05-2019

Jazz Cafe sax summit kicks off second London Saxophone Festival

Following its successful inaugural run last year, the London Saxophone Festival returns with an expanded line-up from 23 May to 16 June at venues across the capital. There’s a post-bop spiritual jazz blow-out to kick things off with some serious saxophone talent lining up at Camden’s Jazz Café on ...

22-05-2019

Steam Down Collective, Emma-Jean Thackray and Ishmael Ensemble heat up Jazz Stroud Festival

The fourth edition of the Jazz Stroud Festival takes place from 23 to 26 May at various venues around the picturesque Cotswold town. Nestled within the Five Valleys in Gloucestershire, the town is known as a hub for alternative music and culture. The festival’s leftfield line-up includes bands dra...

21-05-2019

McFerrin Moves Estonian Voices To Jubilant Heights At Jazzkaar

The second half of Tallinn’s 10-day Jazzkaar festival was particularly loaded with starry Americans, including the Joshua Redman Trio, Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music and John Scofield’s Combo 66, but the most anticipated gig of this 30th edition was that of vocalist Bobby McFerrin’s Gimme 5, the only ...

20-05-2019

Herbie Hancock, Terri Lyne Carrington and Art Ensemble of Chicago lead new names for EFG London Jazz Fest

The line-up for this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival is hotting up with the news that revered US pianist Herbie Hancock (pictured centre) is now confirmed as part of the citywide programme that runs from 15 to 24 November. The show at the Barbican on 17 November will feature Hancock’s high-calibre...

20-05-2019

Williams And Mancio Find Home With Sublime Song Cycle At Dorking's Watermill

Kate Williams and her distinctive Four Plus Three, that’s her strings and jazz trio line-up, with added guest vocalist Georgia Mancio, had appeared for Watermill Jazz in 2017; now they were back but with a new story to tell. In short, this Watermill visit was a key stopping point on their pr...