19-06-2018

Orphy Robinson gets Gibraltar rocking beyond Borders

British vibes virtuoso Orphy Robinson is artist-in-residence at the year's Gibraltar World Music Festival, which runs 19-21 June, and will be using the opportunity to lead a large all-star 17-piece ensemble, which will form The Voicestra Polyphonic Collective. Exploring the festival's theme of 'Bo...

13-06-2018

Vijay Iyer Sextet and Julian Lage jive to Jazz Cafe

Having reopened its doors in January 2016, following a multi-million-pound refit by new owners The Columbo Group, Camden's Jazz Cafe marks its second anniversary year by continuing its strong jazz programming with a bumper crop of names throughout the summer and into autumn. Chief among the many ...

12-06-2018

Jon Hiseman 1944-2018

One of the UK's foremost drummers and bandleaders, Jon Hiseman, who founded the innovative and influential jazz-prog band Colosseum in 1968 and played extensively across the jazz, prog-rock and session worlds died from cancer on 12 June, aged 73. Coming from a jazz background, Hiseman first came t...

12-06-2018

Airto Moreira's Afro-Samba Anthems Raise Roof At Ronnie's

  No greater sign of changing times comes than in this declaration: "The last time we were here I couldn't see the audience through the smoke. After the gig I'd hang my clothes out of the hotel window!" So quips vocalist Diana Purim to a wry smile from her father, bandleader, and Brazilian per...

11-06-2018

Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Binker & Moses head to Harrogate

The Harrogate International Festival, which has been running for over half a century, has a strong and eclectic line-up of jazz names all appearing within its splendid Spielgeltent venue as [art of the festival's music strand. Running from 29 June to 8 July in Harrogate's Crescent Gardens, the pop...

11-06-2018

Voting Now Open for 2018 Parliamentary Jazz Awards

Voting is now open for the 2018 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, which will take place at PizzaExpress Live, Holborn in London on Tuesday 16 October 2018. Entries are open to anyone with the final deadline for entries set for 12noon on Wednesday 20 June 2018. The awards are organised by the All Party Pa...

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...