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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
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...
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...
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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...
Schneider, McLaughlin, Pascoal and more for the Barbican
The Barbican in London offers some top-line jazz performers in the first half of 2022.
They include the Maria Schneider Orchestra performing new material from...
Lady Gaga launches second Tony Bennett collaboration
The transformation of pop singer Lady Gaga into a convincing jazz performer was confirmed last night when a 70-minute set in which she sang...
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Aberdeen Jazz Festival, from 30 September
The Aberdeen Jazz Festival runs 30 September to 10 October 2021, presenting 18 concerts at The Blue Lamp, Queen’s Cross Church, Spin, Revolution de...
London Jazz Festival back to strength
After a perforce quieter year in 2020 the EFG London Jazz Festival is largely back to strength this year, running 12-21 November with plenty...
Benefit gigs to help keep 55 Bar open
The venerated New York jazz venue the 55 Bar is in danger of disappearing permanently following its 14-month closure due to the pandemic and consequently...
Mercury 2021: jazz noted but no prize
Predictably, nothing to do with jazz won the 2021 Hyundai Mercury Prize Album of the Year award, but at the awards ceremony, held at...
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