JAZZ FM AWARDS 2025
It’s back! The long-running Jazz FM Awards returns in April this year and has just unveiled its 2025 nominees. It’s a dynamic mix of newbies and established figures, unfamiliar names, rising stars and future...
ANGIE STONE R.I.P.
Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter Angie Stone has tragically passed away at the age of 63. The legendary singer died on the morning of March 1st, 2025, in a fatal car accident. She and members of her...
MORE LOVE SUPREME ACTS
Jacob Collier, The Roots, José James, Marcos Valle, Chucho Valdés, Avishai Cohen, corto.alto, Neil Cowley Trio, Daniel Casimir Big Band Among Over 20 New Artists Announced For Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2025 The Love...
BRAIN POWER
Michel Cury is a talented 34-year-old keyboard wizard from São Paulo in Brazil whose self-produced debut album Brain Sync has just been released. An enthusiastic exponent of jazz-funk and fusion, Cury creates moods and...
AMNESTY FOR INSTRUMENTS
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club has announced its latest Musical Instrument Amnesty, an initiative designed to repurpose unused or unwanted musical instruments by donating them to children and young people. The amnesty will take place...
NOTHIN’ BUT THE TRUTH
Verve Records has just announced a never-before-released live concert album from Ella Fitzgerald, the so-called “First Lady Of Song.” The Moment of Truth: Ella At The Coliseum, will be released on February 28th on all formats. A taster...
SMOKEY CONFIRMED FOR LOVE SUPREME
With the veteran neo-soul star Maxwell already announced for next year’s Love Supreme Jazz Festival, the legendary Motown icon Smokey Robinson has been added to the bill. The mastermind behind the legendary Miracles will...
TRAVEL FEVER
Songs For Lost Travellers is an unlikely album collaboration between the soulful South London rapper Confucius MC – one-half of the noted hip-hop CoN & KwAkE – and Leamington Spa-born producer and multi-instrumentalist Bastien...
BAKER BOY
With his chiselled movie star looks, trumpeter Chet Baker was the James Dean of jazz and the poster boy for the Californian “Cool School” sound in the 1950s. Remembered as much for his chaotic...
