2019 Parliamentary Jazz Awards The full list of nominees for the 2019 Parliamentary Jazz Awards have been announced with Brighton’s The Verdict jazz club nominated for Jazz Venue of the Year and Claire Martin OBE nominated for Jazz Vocalist of the Year. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Tuesday 3rd December. […]
Each month Peter Batten recommends a recording that jazz fans may wish to add to their personal library. Tadd Dameron & John Coltrane Mating Call Here is another little gem to match last month’s “Thelonica”. Some reissues of this session have sold it as a Coltrane session, but it is definitely Tadd’s date from […]
September can be a quiet month for music fans, after the summer festival season is over but before the autumn touring schedules kick in. Of course, expectations can be sustained by the promise of the EFG London Jazz Festival, coming our way in November, and there is heartening news from the wonderful South Coast […]
Pete Recommends…The Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Each month Peter Batten recommends a recording that jazz fans may wish to add to their personal library. When I moved to Hove in 1999 I decided to make my library of jazz recordings more specialised. The first step was to collect […]