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Tom Green | Musician on a mission

By: Rob Adams | Photos: Courtesy of the Artist. Tom Green is a musician on a mission. The twenty-something London-based trombonist and bandleader feels that his chosen instruments...

Big Chief Bo Dollis of the Wild Magnolias dies aged 71

Big Chief Bo Dollis of the “Wild Magnolias” Black Indian Tribe (January 14, 1944 – January 20, 2015) His voice had the sound of someone who had eaten a dozen saltine...

The New Orleans Jazz Beat

By: Allen Yhorst Kimble, Jr | Photos courtesy of the Author Recently we were contacted by Allen Kimble from New Orleans. Allen asked if we would be interested in publishing a...

Blanco returns to make Celtic connections

Venezuelan piano virtuoso Leo Blanco returns to the UK at the end of January for concerts in Glasgow, London and Edinburgh. He appears with his Blue Lamp Quartet at Glasgow’s...

Duane Eubanks | Things of that Particular Nature

Article by: Becca Horne | Photo’s courtesy of Duane Eubanks Jazz legend Charles Mingus once said, “In my music, I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason...

Chopin Lives On! | Outstanding Polish Jazz Pianists – Part 1

By:  Wojciech Oleksiak | Coutsey of: Culture.pl  What’s the first name that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘Polish music’…? Chopin, right? He is the greatest,...

Fat Suit produce the goods

It began as a tribute band but Fat-Suit has just released its second album of original music, Jugaad, in twelve months and at the end of a year that has seen the Glasgow-based...

Ole Seimetz | My Everything

Ole Seimetz is describing his transformation from a fourteen year old who didn’t particularly listen to music into, at sixteen, a very determined young drummer who wanted to...

Hailey Tuck | Jazz Darling

By Becca Horne | Photo’s Courtesy of Artist There is conceivably, no good reason, an eighteen your old, American born, southern girl from the United States would fly across...

Rein de Graaff: Entrepreneur in swing

By Peter Beije | Featured Photo – Eddy Westveer Pianist Rein de Graaff is an entrepreneur in jazz. During the last 35 years he has invited dozens of American musicians to...

Adrienne West & Alessio Menconi present new CD.

American vocalist Adrienne West together with Italian guitarist Alessio Menconi will release their new tribute CD to Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass “With Love to Ella and Joe”...