This weekend will see Blues guitarist Nathan James in the Netherlands for a series of four gig’s. Kicking of in Eindhoven at “‘t Rozenkopje “ on the 13th and finishing...
The 36th edition of Jazz Middelheim will be held from 3rd through 6th August this year. The festival in the Belgium town Antwerp has a promising program with sixteen top concerts...
This week has been a rather legendary week for this writer. One day I was watching Woody Allen play in one of the most iconic venues that London can offer and another I was...
The portentous Royal Albert Hall hosted an early evening of jazz, Dixieland jazz, early jazz with someone who is a little bit of a legend in cinematographic terms, Woody Allen....
Legendary bassist Stanley Clarke will return to Europe with his band this summer for a series of concerts in Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria and the...
Last week Sony Music announced that it will once again start producing vinyl records in Japan. Around 2008 vinyl slowly started to make a come back with sales steadily growing...
Jazz has always been political in challenging issues of freedom and equality. The music in itself resonates this through the freedom of improvisation and collaboration often...
Geri Allen, the renowned jazz pianist and director of jazz studies at the University of Pittsburgh, died Tuesday in Philadelphia of cancer at age 60. Ms. Allen, a Detroit native,...
Tomorrow sees the official release of Alan Broadbent’s latest album “Developing Story” (Eden River Records). The album features music for jazz piano trio and symphony...
London jazz vocalist Fiona Ross, is at last putting herself in the limelight. As head of the British Academy of New Music for nine years she helped train the likes of Ed Sheeran,...
Vancouver, BC, pulls at more than my guitar strings. I spent 16 years of full immersion, daily experiencing its vast colourful tapestry of diversity. One of its key yearly...