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Mark Gilbert
Mark Gilbert was deputy editor, Jazz Journal, 1981-1999, editor from 2009 to present, a leading British contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and has written for other jazz histories. The guitar plays (or should be played more in order to be) a prominent part in his musical life. Email: editor[at]jazzjournal.co.uk
Andy Summers shows his jazz roots
In the 1980s - probably the most musically fluent decade in pop since rock music arrived in the UK in the late 1950s -...
French-horn player Rattigan tours
The French-horn player Jim Rattigan, a fugitive from the classical world long acclimatised to jazz, tours music from his 2021 album When this month....
Sunak sits out on freelancers again; MU complains
As Christmas events are cancelled and venues experience reduced audiences following new government measures against the Omicron variant of Covid-19, musicians have been finding...
Berklee seeks equality through ‘intersectional black feminist provocation’
The Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice has got together with NYC Winter Jazzfest, The New School, and M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Mentorships)...
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Nikki Iles wins Ivors Composer Award for jazz
Pianist and composer Nikki Iles has won the Ivors Composer Award for jazz composition 2021, for her piece The Caged Bird. The work was...
Herts Jazz Club closes for lack of audience
Despite the continuing refrain from publicists and the arts establishment that the UK jazz scene is burgeoning, world-beating, the new centre of global jazz...
Bemoaning the jazz patriarchy
The publicists for Next Jazz Legacy, a programme sponsored by Berklee College of Music to enable women and non-binary students, have distributed a Tweet...
Tomorrow’s Warriors picture themselves with Art Kane
Tomorrow’s Warriors, the energetic London-based jazz development agency, tomorrow takes inspiration from Art Kane's famous Great Day In Harlem photograph, which was further immortalised...
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Berklee to encourage women and non-binary musicians
The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, a department of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, is partnering with New Music...
Henderson, Breckers, Hubbard et al in 1980 video gem
Fans of modern hard bop at its peak may like to see a video gem that just popped up in the editor’s YouTube recommendations.
It’s...
Chris Hodgkins’ Salute to Humph
Humphrey Lyttelton, trumpeter, band leader and BBC broadcaster, would have been 100 this year, and to mark the occasion fellow trumpeter Chris Hodgkins tours...
Malcolm Cecil gear goes on sale
Malcolm Cecil might be best known to jazz followers as bassist with Ronnie Scott, the Jazz Couriers and others, but post-jazz he achieved greater...
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