23-06-2017

Campaign builds to rename Williamsburg Bridge in Sonny Rollins’ honour

It's been four years since Sonny Rollins, 86, last took to the stage, but the Newk remains as newsworthy as ever. Last month it was announced that the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in his birthplace of Harlem, had purchased Rollins' extensive archives, featuring unreleased materi...

22-06-2017

Boogie at the Bandstand – the Love Supreme low-down

Ahead of the start next week of the fifth edition of the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Bandstand programmer Eddie Myer previews the exciting emerging artists who'll be performing across the weekend This year's Love Supreme line-up is the festival's most exciting and eclectic yet, with the trademark...

21-06-2017

Tin Men and the Telephone and Tord Gustavsen for Ronnie’s Piano Trio Fest

The fourth edition of the Ronnie Scott's International Piano Trio Festival 2017 runs from 21 to 26 August with a plethora of pianistic talent from home and abroad, across opening, main and late show sets each night. Kicking off with a 'Pianothon' featuring four of the UK's finest players, includin...

20-06-2017

Marcus Miller, Chick Corea and Charles Lloyd top Blue Note at Sea cruise 2018

Following the success of the inaugural Blue Note at Sea cruise which took place earlier this year, dates have just been announced for the 2018 cruise which will sail from Fort Lauderdale, Florida from 27 January to 3 February featuring a world class roster of jazz names, including headliners Marcu...

19-06-2017

Alice and John Coltrane Celebration, Nik Bärtsch and Eliane Elias added to EFG London Jazz Festival

A raft of new concert hall additions have been announced for this year's 25th anniversary EFG London Jazz Festival, which runs from 10 to 19 November. Swelling the programme's headliners will be an eagerly anticipated brass-heavy meeting between great Brit-jazz multi-reedist John Surman and compos...

19-06-2017

Laila Biali and Idang Rasjidi Syndicate shine at Borneo Jazz Festival

Set against the lush tropical gardens that stretch down from the Borneo Jazz Festival stage to a palm-fringed white sand beach where the delicate oud-sounding curlicues of Chung YuFeng's Chinese lute-like pipa spin fleetingly around Michael Simon's plangent flugelhorn, it's hard not to concur with...

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...