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UK Jazz NewsEuropeDonovan Haffner wins 2026 Tina May Young Jazz Musician Award The winner of this year’s Musicians’ Company Tina May Young Jazz Musician Award is saxophonist Donovan Haffner. The Awards concert was at PizzaExpress Soho.
UK Jazz NewsEuropeLarry Fuller Trio – ‘A Tribute to Ray Brown’ – 10 November PizzaExpress Soho and European Tour This November, American jazz pianist LARRY FULLER will bring his trio to the UK and Europe, starting off in London at PizzaExpress (Soho), His programme is a tribute to his former boss, legendary…
UK Jazz NewsEuropeMelissa Aldana and Linda May Han Oh at Wigmore Hall Linda May Han Oh and Melissa Aldana are at the forefront of contemporary jazz, on bass and tenor saxophone respectively, each mainly playing their own music or pieces by their contemporaries, or…
UK Jazz NewsEuropePeter Erskine – New Album ‘Peregrine’ PETER ERSKINE has graced studios and stages with Weather Report, Steps Ahead, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall, Kenny Wheeler and countless others.
UK Jazz NewsEuropeMattia Zanlorenzi – ‘Wanderlust’ Wanderlust is the debut recording by drummer Mattia Zanlorenzi (b.1994) from Piedmont in Italy, and yet what is already very clear is that he is a musician who has found a strong sense of direction…
UK Jazz NewsEuropeTamar Osborn’s ‘Varier – Berlin’ London album launch at the RAH Elgar Room The Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room’s jazz programme of (mainly) Thursday nights takes the summer off, and this was the first event of the autumn series.
UK Jazz NewsEurope10 Tracks I Can’t Do Without: Adam Williams at a Career Intersection Between Jazz…and Bees After 7+ years as Jazz Programming and Ensembles Manager at Guildhall (+), the time has come to make the move into full-time beekeeping(*).
UK Jazz NewsEuropeJohn Coltrane 100th Anniversary Concert in Birmingham Saxophonist Paul Dunmall summed up the feelings of many musicians and fans in the 1960s when he said that his initial reaction to John Coltrane’s “Meditations” had been extremely negative.
UK Jazz NewsEuropeInterview with Jamie Safir Having built a solid reputation as a collaborator with various esteemed names across the Jazz and Pop spectra, Jamie Safir emerges as a solo artist in his own right, with his debut album just…
UK Jazz NewsEuropeVan Morrison – British Airways Arc, Olympia, London. Even in a full-on, blues-oriented programme (to promote this year’s viscerally blues-laden album Somebody Tried To Sell Me A Bridge) Van Morrison’s jazz chops are always bubbling away.
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