7+ hour, 49+ min ago  (235+ words) Here's an archive treat to be thankful for. Carla Bley's ten piece formations in the 1980s always provided superb entertainment, and a session at the NDR studios in March 1984 was no exception. The two hours of music captured then are a…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago  (351+ words) Jutta Hipp (1925-2003) was a remarkable artist with an improbable story, and Anna Schmidt's documentary film "Being Hipp " first lady of European jazz' " which has just won the media award at the 2026 German Jazz Prize " is a thoroughly researched, vivid and…...

8+ hour, 49+ min ago  (722+ words) UK Jazz News " formerly London Jazz News " was started as a blog by Sebastian Scotney in 2009, and has gone on growing ever since. It now involves a substantial team of contributors and helpers. The website publishes a daily "ow of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (512+ words) Childs" colleagues on Triumvirate are bassist Matt Penman and drummer Ari Hoenig. "They"re co-travellers in this adventure that all three of us are doing equally," he says. "They"re just amazing, intuitive musicians." "Also I"ve grown and I…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (315+ words) The musicians will set a high standard, as I discovered when I caught three days, out of a total of nine, of the long-standing Jazzkaar festival. Long enough to make one realise that this is a festival which has exactly…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (132+ words) The duo of Nils Landgren and Esbjorn Svensson made one other album together for ACT, "Layers of Light, recorded at Rainbow Studios in Oslo in 1999, and engineered and mastered by Jan-Erik Kongshaug. Hopefully, a new vinyl edition of that will…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (222+ words) The nine songs from the album featured in the evening's music and as Jeremy explained, they were connected, in that each one related to a different key stage in life. Each number came with a story which showed how personal…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (851+ words) Oracles, Helen Sung's debut big band album, gathers pieces written for the artists she studied with in the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance: Clark Terry, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath, Wayne Shorter, Barry Harris, Kenny Barron,…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (287+ words) UK Jazz News " formerly London Jazz News " was started as a blog by Sebastian Scotney in 2009, and has gone on growing ever since. It now involves a substantial team of contributors and helpers. The website publishes a daily "ow of…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (238+ words) A friend at the German Jazz Prize ceremony made a particularly sage comment after it was over last night: what can sometimes get lost amid the hurly-burly of an Awards Ceremony is how much it means, deep down, to each…...