Sebastian Scotney

Music can be a form of prayer. It can console, witness, and connect when the world feels fractured. For British European Jazz Ensemble (BEJE), led by trumpeter David Mowat this is more than a philosophy, it is the essence of the music they make. In this i... See more

It is announced today… which happens to be John Etheridge’s 78th birthday, that he is the 2025 winner of the Jazz Lifetime Achievement Silver Medal from the Musician’s Company. The award will be made at a private ceremony later this month. John Etheridge ... See more

On a stormy night in London town, the quartet of pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach with Evan Parker (tenor sax), John Edwards (double bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums / percussion), played two storming, uninterrupted, extemporised sets on the first ni... See more

UK Jazz News: What originally drew you to George Shearing and led you to put together the “Shades of Shearing” band? Nick Tomalin: I was lucky enough to meet George Shearing in 1994 when I was a student at the Guildhall School of Music and he came to do a... See more

From Tito Puente to Arturo O’Farrill, Latin Jazz remains one of the music’s most vibrant and popular sub-genres. Fusing the complexity of modern jazz with the danceable immediacy of Afro-Cuban rhythms, at its best it simultaneously operates on both a cere... See more