Having picked up a Grammy Award for her dazzling all-female 2010 album, The Mosaic Project, highly respected US drummer, arranger and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington (pictured left) returns with a major re-working of Duke Ellington’s 1963 album, Money Jungle, set for release on Concord Jazz on 25 February 2013.
If the packed stalls at Ronnie’s on the third night of French-Ivorian drum star Manu Katché’s residency this week are thanks to his place at rock’s top table – a session ace for the likes of Peter Gabriel, who sat attentively as a guest at the bar tonight – tells one story, then the fact he’s decamped from his usual concert hall (or stadium) settings to get down and dirty on the no frills stage here, tells the other.
The Jazz on a Winter’s Weekend Festival takes place at the Royal Clifton Hotel, Southport from 1-3 February with Marius Neset (pictured left), Alan Barnes and Zara MacFarlane among the headliners.
Match&Fuse – the intercontinental band exchange promoters set up and run by WorldService Project keyboardist/composer Dave Morecroft – kicks off the new year with a suitably diverse sonic blast at the Vortex, on Saturday 26 January, with a triple bill of exciting up ad coming bands from Italy and London.
The countdown is on for the inaugural Jazz FM Awards, which take place on 31 January at One Marylebone in London, with the announcement that Jazz FM DJ and multi-award winning singer Ian Shaw will host the ceremony.
Walthamstow based jazz collective e17Jazz has announced a change of venue from the Walthamstow Cricket Club to a new residency at Orford Road Social Club, 73 Orford Road, London E17 9QR, along with a new series of gigs.
News that George Gruntz passed last Thursday, 10 January, aged 80 was greeted by astonishment by those who knew him.
Drummer and composer Dave Hamblett’s group (pictured left) are set to release their debut album, Light At Night, on 25 February on Whirlwind Recordings.
Composer Adrian Johnston’s music for the Louis Lester Band, the fictional 1930s black British jazz band, whose story is told in upcoming drama series Dancing on the Edge, has now been confirmed for release on 28 January on Decca records.
Julien Lourau’s unique blend of free-jazz, urban music and electronica has been turning heads across his career, and clearly his reputation for enjoyable groove-rooted jazz precedes him, as a healthy Saturday-night crowd filled The Vortex to near capacity.
