No year is a particularly secure one for jazz, but if 2012 is being predicted as a particularly precarious year economically, does this necessarily mean that jazz will suffer?Read
Look in the record collections of the young whizz kids emerging from the jazz schools these days and you are just as likely to find albums by Cannibal Corpse or Napalm Death as ones by John Coltrane and Miles Davis.Read
The big gig this week features a man who has been at the heart of American jazz for over 50 years, and one who really does deserve that horribly overused word: unique.Read
One of the most creative and distinctive new strands in British jazz over the last few years has been the consolidation of a strong crossover between jazz and Asian music.Read
After what seems like an awfully long time, Birmingham Jazz finally gets fully into gear this week with a prestige double bill on Saturday, the first of the new Jazz Club season on Wednesday and collaboration with the Supersonic Festival on Sunday.Read
Drummer Tony Levin died in February and the ripples of warm memories of the man and his music continue to the follow the waves of sadness that spread out from Shropshire, where Tony lived, over the whole jazz planet.Read
One of the highlights of Birmingham jazz in 2010 was the new Mostly Jazz Festival, an offshoot of the Moseley Folk Festival and using the same lovely little park as its pastoral setting.Read
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