20-10-2017

Ronnie Scott’s Instrument Amnesty Returns

Following the success of the inaugural Music Instrument Amnesty in 2015, which saw 150 instruments pledged to new homes, the Ronnie Scott's Charitable Foundation is once again opening its doors on Saturday 28 October at the iconic Frith Street jazz club from 10am to 4pm. Any instruments donated w...

17-10-2017

Instant Composers Pool Orchestra goes Dutch with UK and Ireland dates

The unique, internationally renowned Instant Composers Pool Orchestra launches Going Dutch, a new, yearlong project aimed at introducing British and Irish audiences to the vibrant Netherlands jazz scene, with a seven date tour beginning at Lakeside Arts in Nottingham on Monday 30 October. ICP was...

16-10-2017

Martin Taylor and Jazz at The Philharmonic concert to save Swanage Jazz Festival

News that this year's 28th edition of the Swanage Jazz Festival would potentially be its last, has inspired award-winning jazz guitarist Nigel Price to set up a Kickstarter campaign and present a special Jazz at The Philharmonic-style concert to raise the funds necessary for the festival continue ...

11-10-2017

Nérija, Dinosaur and Jim Mullen among Parliamentary Jazz Award winners

The 13th annual Parliamentary Jazz Awards took place for the first time away from the Houses Of Parliament's Terrace Pavilion at the newly opened Pizza Express Live venue in Holborn, London with a wide-ranging list of winners announced. Presented by Pizza Express' music manager Ross Dines, the goo...

10-10-2017

Hugh Masekela withdraws from Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya concert due to ill health

Revered South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela has announced that, due ill health, he has now cancelled all of his scheduled concerts, including his appearance EFG London Jazz Festival concert Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya on 14 November at the Royal Festival Hall. The concert itself is still very m...

10-10-2017

Dee Byrne's Entropi Radiate Amid Rough And Tumble At Kings Place Album Launch

  The most striking thing about Moment Frozen, the second release from British altoist Dee Byrne and her Entropi quintet, is its sense of space. From the opening notes of the title-track, with Byrne and trumpeter Andre Canniere playing beaming holds as keyboardist Rebecca Nash, bassi...

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...