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Norah Jones, Wayne Shorter, & more headline at Gent Jazz Festival 2017

Singer Norah Jones is one of the crowd pullers at Gent Jazz Festival 2017. The festival in the Belgian town will be held from 6 to July 15th. The festival was first held in 2002....

See you @ jazzahead!

After taking over the role of Editor in Chief for Jazz in Europe.com it has always been my intention to travel to jazzahead! and meet the many people face to face that I have...

Avishai Cohen (the trumpeter) Best With Fine Wine & Tour Dates

Avishai Cohen, from Tel Aviv and now based in New York City, has been praised as one of the best new jazz trumpeters by polls and critics, and he is compared to Miles Davis for...

Celebrating Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song

Happy 100th Birthday – The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Roberta Gambarini, and Kenny Washington celebrate Ella Fitzgerald on April 27–29 in Rose...

“Swing in the name of perfection”

The main show at Ronnies on a Friday night: picture the scene, I arrive to watch the boys that put danger back into jazz for the second show… this starts around 23.30. It’s...

Honoring Abbey Lincoln – a Woman of Love & Protest

April 23, Sunday—Hebden Bridge Town Hall, West Yorkshire, UK April 24, Monday—International Festival of Jazz Piano, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic. – The American...

Uli Beckerhoff, Artistic Director of jazzahead! – Shares some key benefits of attending in 2017

Check out our very own inhouse JazzTalk.News podcast series for 2019 with our very own knowledgeable editor In chief – Nigel J. (JazzTalk.News uses the Photo by Jason...

5 Questions to Georgia Mancio, asked by Erminia Yardley

With her new album, Songbook, due for release on 23rd April and its official launch at Ronnie Scott’s recently, vocalist and lyricist Georgia Mancio tells me about her work with...

Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent @ Ronnie Scott’s – “Songbook”: the album launch

A debut for vocalist and lyricist Georgia Mancio and award winning jazz pianist, composer and arranger Alan Broadbent, playing to a sold out audience on Monday night recently, an...

David Helbock Trio | Tapping into Austrian Soul Jazz | Review & Tour Dates

American jazz composers and particularly the pianists have not been shy to take inspiration from Classical music over the years, since the time of Duke Ellington, and Art Tatum....

“When Soweto came to Ronnies”

As part of the Jazzwise 20th Anniversary Special, Ronnie Scott’s had another gem in store. The multi-talented British saxophonist and mc that is Soweto Kinch recently played the...