28-09-2016

Pianist Uri Caine captivates at EJN

Year in, year out the Europe Jazz Network (EJN) conference moves from one country to another in the 'Old World', and the choice of Wroclaw in Poland seems more than progressive in 2016. Jazztopad, one of the city's marquee cultural events has become increasingly universal in its outlook, running a...

26-09-2016

Sons of Kemet, Soweto Kinch and Binker Golding kick it at Cambridge

Sons of Kemet, Soweto Kinch and Binker Golding's new Quartet are among a diverse set of headliners at the second Cambridge Jazz Festival, which takes place from 16 to 27 November, over 12 nights at 21 venues around the city. Building on the success of its inaugural edition last year, the programme...

26-09-2016

Empirical announce monthly Old Street Records residency

Following their lauded 'pop-up jazz lounge', hosted at Old Street station earlier in the year, boundary-pushing, MOBO Award-winning UK quintet Empirical return to the locale with news of a monthly residency at exciting new music hot spot Old Street Records. Empirical – featuring Nathaniel Facey (...

26-09-2016

Trish Clowes and Vula Viel Among Those Scoring Scarborough Fest Successes

  Amid the Victorian splendour of the Spa and sweeping views of the South Bay, the 2016 Scarborough Jazz Festival was jam-packed with talent, encompassing a wide variety of styles and genres, and frequented by an audience with refreshingly open ears. The festival opened with pianist Gareth Wi...

23-09-2016

New Apple Music playlist: John Coltrane – a life in music

Giving an overview of Coltrane's development as an artist on record, this playlist includes tracks from all of the albums that featured Coltrane as a leader and that were approved during his lifetime, from 'Coltrane' in 1957 to 'Expression' in 1967 ...

23-09-2016

Video Exclusive: Monocled Man’s ‘We Drift Meridian’ - new album and live dates

Jazzwise is proud to present the new video from top UK trumpeter Rory Simmons' exciting jazz-tronica trio Monocled Man, in the form of the title track of their new album, We Drift Meridian, which is released today on Whirlwind Recordings. Featuring Simmons on trumpet, Chris Montague on guitar and ...

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...

Kamasi Washington and the West Coast Upr…

The emergence of Los Angeles saxophonist Kamasi Washington as one of the hottest names in jazz – thanks to the avalanche of music he unleashed on his remarkable triple-disc debut...

Miles Davis and John Coltrane – Yin and …

How did John Coltrane and Miles Davis get on? The odd couple, with contrasting personalities on and off the bandstand. But together the music they produced was peerless, says Ashley...