26-04-2018

Brit-jazz stars, Metropole Orkest, Puppy, Porter, Metheny and more for North Sea Jazz Fest

This year's North Sea Jazz Festival, the world's largest indoor music festival, takes place in Rotterdam from 13-15 July with an impressive international line-up of jazz heavyweights, with Snarky Puppy bandleader and producer Michael League (above left) as its artist in residence. He appears with ...

24-04-2018

Pat Metheny to be honoured with PRS for Music Gold Award and Esperanza Spalding to appear at Jazz FM Awards

Revered US guitarist Pat Metheny (pictured) has been confirmed as the recipient of the PRS for Music Gold Award at this year's Jazz FM Awards, which take place next Monday on 30 April at Shoreditch Town Hall, London. Widely acclaimed as one of the all-time jazz guitar greats, Metheny's extraordina...

23-04-2018

Schneider Supreme Among Savannah Fest's Legacy-Leaning Showcases

The middle period of the Savannah Music Festival featured most of its jazz shows, as the stylistic orientation shifted, throughout a 17-day run. This 29th edition celebrated the accustomed diverse blend of blues, country, classical, latin, cajun, flamenco, bluegrass and African musics. D...

23-04-2018

Dr Lonnie Remedies Ronnie's With Waves Of His Magic Wand

Improvising musicians have been at the forefront of technology for many years. Dr. Lonnie Smith's memorable declaration that the Hammond B-3 organ is 'the first synthesiser' proves more topical than ever in this mesmerising performance, as his use of the instrument's two keyboards, numerous drawba...

20-04-2018

Lucia Cadotsch and Kyle Eastwood among the corking capers at Cully Jazz

  "There will never be peace until God is seated at the conference table", sang the Blind Boys of Alabama. Given our proximity to Geneva and the backlog of international conflicts that need resolving, the lyrics seemed particularly prescient. Cully Jazz's two-week programme is an eclectic mix...

17-04-2018

Shake Stew release video ahead of new album Rise And Rise Again featuring Shabaka Hutchings

Seven-piece Austrian newcomers Shake Stew are set to release their second album, Rise And Rise Again on 4 May on the Traumton Record imprint. Led by dynamic 30-year old bassist/composer Lukas Kranzelbinder the band's unusual line-up includes a second electric/upright bassist Manuel Mayr, two drumm...

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...