22-08-2017

Omar Puente and Melt Yourself Down get Canary Wharf Jazz Fest moving

The Canary Wharf Jazz Festival has been successfully putting on a free weekend of concerts since 2007 and its 11th incarnation featured a host of jazz, latin and crossover acts. An appreciative audience had already gathered at Canada Square Park to hear bop pianist Rob Barron, accompanied by virtu...

21-08-2017

Video Exclusive for Sam Braysher’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’

Emerging UK sax talent Sam Braysher releases his intimate new duo album, Golden Earrings, with US pianist Michael Kanan on the Fresh Sound New Talent label on 1 September. In an under-stated kick against the frenetically competitive and chops-driven approach of many today, Braysher and Kanan offer...

21-08-2017

Dhafer Youssef and Get the Blessing get Gaume grooving

  When Get the Blessing call for audience participation, they're startled almost to the point of incapacity by the reaction. British audiences can need cattle-prods to clap along, but around midnight in the Gaume festival's final minutes, its still packed big tent rallies together in collectiv...

17-08-2017

Kinch and Carroll cap Sligo capers

The combined festival and summer school in Sligo have had the town buzzing since 2005. The Hawks Well Theatre hosts larger concerts while venues around town cater for smaller gigs. In addition to performances, 21 tutors hold daily masterclasses and lead ensembles for 120 participants at the Instit...

17-08-2017

Southampton Gets Ahead As New Jazz Venue Prospers

  (Pianist Jason Rebello guests on the Talking Heads stage with Southampton Youth Jazz Orchestra, led by Dan Mar-Molinero on soprano sax)   Eighteen months ago the Talking Heads was a small pub on the outskirts of Southampton, presenting local jazz bands once a week in a gloomy back roo...

14-08-2017

Edwards and Castle pursue chaotic pulse at The Verdict

  'Crossover' is a word much employed by critics when talking about the current crop of young UK jazz artists, but tonight's event reminds us that cross-fertilisation has been quietly going on in the background of the scene for some time. Both the protagonists have strong jazz credentials – Ma...

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...