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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
The Red Sea’s November jazz weekend
Israel’s Eilat Harbor is the venue 10-12 November for concerts including Cory Henry, Mulatu Astatke and the English saxophonist Emma Rawicz
Joey DeFrancesco dies, aged 51
The Philadelphia-born organist shot to jazz fame in the late 1980s and is recognised as inspiring the enduring revival of organ jazz
Jazz FM invites musicians to be ‘guest Head of Music’
Nu-jazz newcomer Emma-Jean Thackray, drummer Makaya McCraven and British soul singer Mica Miller will present their favourites
Stanley Jordan returns to Ronnie Scott’s
Two-handed tapper Stanley Jordan and one-time young lion Chico Freeman are among the intriguing bookings at the club this month and next
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Frank Zappa estate acquired by Universal
The corporation will market both old and unissued music by the man who said 'Jazz is not dead . . . it just smells funny'
Ken Peplowski cancer support fund
At $81,184 a GoFundMe campaign for the popular mainstream clarinettist and saxophonist has exceeded its target but will remain open
Brexit: summertime blues for UK musicians
The first summer in which the effect of leaving the EU has not been clouded by Covid-19 shows a 45% fall in British players at EU festivals
The wealth of jazz on the Ed Sullivan Show
Scores of historic jazz performances from the 1950s and 1960s are available on the Ed Sullivan Show's YouTube channel
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Fergus McCreadie represents jazz in 2022 Mercury
The Scottish pianist's trio set Forest Floor vies with 11 other albums in styles including pop, rap and Cornish language folk-rock
Scarborough Jazz Festival, 23-25 September
The 19th Scarborough Jazz Festival includes Alan Barnes, Dave Newton, Paul Booth's Bansangu and a Jazz Messengers tribute
Neset and Kinch provide jazz interest at the 2022 Proms
BBC Radio 3 controller Alan Davey says of the Proms concerts at the Royal Albert Hall: "The BBC’s on-going commitment to running the biggest...
Penny Lane flautist Ray Swinfield’s gear to be auctioned
The flutes and woodwind instruments used by the late Ray Swinfield are to be sold at auction this week. Swinfield, who died in 2019,...
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