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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
Guy Barker’s Big Band Christmas goes ahead
Guy Barker's big band will be swinging the Royal Albert Hall again this December as part of an initiative to show the venue's determination to surmount the pandemic.
Steve Khan: Patchwork
The basic style follows a lot of previous sessions by Khan’s trio, going back decades, but this is an especially convincing one. On the...
The Brecker Brothers: Live And Unreleased
It’s a 1980 recording done for the German radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk, so the audio quality is exemplary - not something that can be...
BBC Young Jazz Musician for BBC Four
The final of this year's BBC Young Jazz Musician competition will be shown on BBC Four TV on Sunday, 22 November, at 7pm. The...
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Blowing for Biden
Ahead of the US election a group of prominent American jazz performers come together on 15 October to play a streamed concert in support...
EFG London Jazz Festival 2020 launched
The 2020 EFG London Jazz Festival is to go ahead, 13-22 November. It was launched 27 September in a 40-minute online presentation available to...
Nikki Iles and Orphy Robinson for new NYJO board
The 24-piece National Youth Jazz Orchestra gets a new board in January 2021. The organisation, which conceded in its 2019 trustees' report that its...
Chelsea’s 606 Club back in action
Since reopening on the 20 August, the 606 Club in Chelsea, London has received plaudits for its safe presentation of jazz, including two five-star...
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Peter Green: a jazz appreciation
He was a blues player and he wasn’t a jazz player - especially in the more strictly defined terms of the 1960s, when the...
Ronnie Scott’s in the vanguard of reopened jazz clubs
One hundred and thirty-seven days after it closed due to Covid-19 restrictions, Ronnie Scott's club will reopen 1 August, admitting 50% capacity audiences and...
Moses for Mercury
As often, an album related to jazz makes an appearance in the "Albums Of The Year" shortlist for the 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize, namely...
Womxn to be elevated
Singer Sara Serpa, according to JJ's Andy Hamilton "a thoughtful and sensitive vocal artist", has teamed with another musician, Jen Shyu, to form M³,...
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