Guitar virtuoso Maciek Pysz is pleased to announce a comprehensive 19 date tour of the UK in support of the upcoming release of his second album ‘A Journey’. Joined by his...
On Saturday 5 September the Bimhuis in Amsterdam will host Cuban pianist/composer Hilario Durán. Hilario Durán makes his instrument sound like an orchestra and this virtuoso...
Jazz great, Dizzy Gillespie one said, “Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit.” Gillespie could have been speaking about Cuban born...
By Rob Adams | 1st published by the Herald Scotland. Everyone has heroes. Even musicians who have been said to have found their own voice as a composer or improviser will have...
Ntjam Rosie is an amazing addition to the soul/jazz music scene in the Netherlands and, without doubt, soon the world. With Cameroon as her birth-place and the Netherlands as her...
Pianist Robert Glasper has been called “The hope and future of jazz”. Ten years after making his Blue Note debut—and following two GRAMMY-winning volumes of his...
Deborah J. Carter’s latest album called ‘Diggin’ the Duke!’ was released in Europe last month. From ‘Petite fleur Africaine’ to ‘It don’t mean a thing (if it...
Every so often the fates contrive to bring together musicians of incredible talent, put them in the hands of a good recording engineer, give them a good producer and the result is...
Neil Tesser, a Chicago-based jazz journalist, broadcaster, author, educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and current...
Ntjam Rosie, Cameroon-born, Dutch-based Afro-European artist, has become a tastemaker both with her music and her fashion sense, is set to make a big mark in 2015 with her fourth...