16-10-2018

Shirley Tetteh, Denys Baptiste and Ian Shaw among Parliamentary Jazz Award winners

The winners of the 14th annual Parliamentary Jazz Awards took place on Tuesday 16 October, at PizzaExpress Live's Holborn venue, with the wide-range recipients reflecting the depth and diversity of the British jazz scene. Compéred by PizzaExpress Live's music manager Ross Dines, the winners includ...

16-10-2018

Omar Puente and Steam Down Collective for Albany

South London's longstanding music and arts venue, The Albany, has a varied line-up of jazz within its autumn programme. Key highlights include a three-night run of fundraising gigs for the Ed Renshaw Award (which supports young musicians in south east London), including an opening-night gala with ...

12-10-2018

Up From The Vaults: Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet Albums Back on Vinyl

Long regarded as among the most notable and, in recent decades, most collectable albums in British jazz history, the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet EMI/Columbia recordings are to be reissued on vinyl for the first time since they were released in the 1960s. Produced by Denis Preston at the famous La...

12-10-2018

Georgia Mancio's triumphant triple bill at second Pizza Hang

It's been something of an annus mirabilis for the vocalist, lyricist and producer Georgia Mancio. Marking her eighteenth anniversary as a professional musician, 2018 has seen her nominated for Best Vocalist in both the Parliamentary and British Jazz Awards, play her first US dates with her esteeme...

10-10-2018

Makaya McCraven’s Universal Beings, The Necks and Ambrose Akinmusire make moves at Mondriaan Jazz Fest

The second edition of the Mondriaan Jazz Festival takes place this weekend on Saturday 13 October, and features stellar line-up of cutting edge jazz from artists from the UK, US and Europe. Programmed by The Good Music company's Mike Bindraban and Henk Koolen, the packed programme runs across...

09-10-2018

Black Top boogie on down for Sardinian Extravaganza

This exciting initiative taken by London-based vocalist Filomena Campus is the best possible advert for cross-cultural exchange at a time of internal strife in Europe. Billed as 'Alghero incontra Londra' the meeting of musicians from the enchantingly beautiful Sardinian city of Alghero and the dizzy...

The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World

Top 100s, don’t you just love ’em. Barely a month goes by without magazines, newspapers or TV programmes pushing yet another poll of the 100 greatest whatever. Jazz, of course...

Twenty years of Jazzwise's Albums of the…

Every year our writers vote for the recording that they think most deserves the accolade 'Album of the Year'. And here they are in all their glory - from 1997...