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Releases
Crying Laughing preview the album Talking with the single "Geese Six"
The Baltimore band's record lands next week on the Hausu Mountain label.
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Obituary
Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson has died at 70
Her manager said she died at home in Jackson, Mississippi on September 1.
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Releases
Jazz drummer Moses Boyd sets October 30 for the album Songs For Sinners
His first record in six years arrives on Exodus, led by "Criticise" with the London vocalist Amber-Simone.
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Awards
Heidi Vogel and Yazz Ahmed among nominees for the 2026 parliamentary jazz awards
Nine of the ten categories were revealed ahead of an October 13 ceremony at World Heart Beat.
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Festivals
The 606 Club announces a 50th anniversary jazz festival running Oct. 12 to 25
Jamie Cullum, Julian Joseph, Kyle Eastwood and Liane Carroll are among the names on a two-week bill.
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Releases
Saxophonist Michael Blake sets his album Halloween Tales for 25 September
Gary Versace, Ben Allison and Michael Sarin play a programme of horror themes, Charlie Brown tunes and Ellington, cut in a single day.
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Pianist John Donaldson releases new album dedicated to his late wife
We Were Together, I Forget the Rest was recorded with an octet including Norma Winstone.
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Tours
Jazz singer Mads Mathias returns to London for two Soho shows in October
The Danish saxophonist plays PizzaExpress Live on Dean Street on October 3, his first British date since 2018.
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Releases
Saxophonist Miguel Zenon and pianist Luis Perdomo release El Arte del Bolero Vol. 3
The duo cut the third volume at Van Gelder Studios after Vol. 2 won a Latin jazz Grammy.
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Releases
Gretchen Parlato releases the album The Wise Ones on Edition Records
Her third record for the label was cut in Los Angeles in 2025, with Robert Glasper and Mark Guiliana in the band.
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Obituary
George West, who founded the Birmingham Jazz concert series, has died
UK Jazz News dated his life 1935 to 2026 and published the tribute beside the club's fiftieth anniversary programme.
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Releases
Resavoir announce new album Above The Clouds
Trumpeter Will Miller's Chicago jazz ensemble shares '4th Cloud' featuring Gregory Uhlmann.
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Releases
Dexter Story announces new album T'som
The LA multi-instrumentalist shares 'Mama,' featuring Sudan Archives and Kamasi Washington.
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Releases
James Brandon Lewis announces new Red Lily Quintet album Calling Antonin
The saxophonist follows his quartet's Omni with another new record just two months later.
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Festivals
Jazzahead! 2027 festival unveils a wave of new announcements
The 21st edition adds a new Asia Pacific focus and names the Baltic states as 2027 partner.
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Festivals
Swansea International Jazz Festival 2026 gears up for autumn dates
The annual festival returns to venues across the city September 3-6.
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Festivals
Programme announced for third Posk Festival of Jazz Voice
The two-day event runs October 2-3 at Jazz Cafe Posk in Hammersmith.
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Releases
Roberta Flack's 'The Montreux Years' reissue spans 37 years of shows
The archival set draws on five Montreux concerts, released after her 2025 death.
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Business
Aberdeen jazz promoter "Jazz at the Blue Lamp" announces a name change
The volunteer-run promotion moved from the shuttered Blue Lamp to the Rusty Nail on Rosemount Viaduct and is now called Jazz in the Granite City.
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Releases
corto.alto and Jacob Alon combine on new song "NOBLEHILL"
It previews corto.alto's new album "SOME SMALL FORTUNE," which also features Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins.
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Festivals
LA musicians hold their own show after the LA Jazz Festival collapses
Local acts staged an underground pop-up called Can't Cancel Jazz instead.
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Releases
Pianist Ignasi Terraza releases live album from his Palau de la Musica tribute concert
The recording, applause left in, documents a June 2025 concert honoring the blind Catalan pianist's four-decade career.
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Festivals
The Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music previews its 2026 edition
UK Jazz News calls the festival's focus on experimental, improvised playing unique among UK jazz events.
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Releases
Jazz vocalist Claudia Acuna releases new album "Ave de Luz" rooted in Chile
She told UK Jazz News the record puts her native country's traditions at the center for the first time.
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Releases
Jazz pianist Terence Collie announces new album DNA, out August 21
Collie traces his family's move from Scotland to the Seychelles across the record, made with a string trio and percussion for the first time.
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Business
Darius Brubeck documentary gets a screening at London's Phoenix Cinema
Mark Kermode will host a live Q and A with Brubeck and director Michiel ten Kleij after the film.
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Obituary
Sandra King, British jazz singer heard across Europe, has died at 75
JazzTimes says her singing reached jazz radio listeners in several European countries from 1969 into the late 1990s.
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Releases
Joseph Tawadros and drummer Jack DeJohnette recorded Conversations with Jack
UK Jazz News says the two cut the record across two days with nothing worked out in advance.
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Legal
Jazz guitarist Pritesh Walia released after ICE detention, JazzTimes says
An editor's note added to the outlet's original piece says he is no longer in custody, though the case is not considered over.
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Releases
Saxophonist Boney James pairs with Ledisi on I Belong To You
The track previews his coming album, A Simple Man, due in early October.
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Releases
Martin Speake Big Band release the album Hidden Vision, arranged by Charlie Rees
UK Jazz News praised the ensemble's playing across all seven reworked pieces.
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Releases
Park Stickney and Matthias Bublath take a duo that started in Cuba to Munich
Their Munich debut fell on the evening of a solar eclipse.
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Business
Jon Batiste cancels a Connecticut festival appearance and other concerts
He cited undisclosed "personal circumstances" in a statement shared by the Westville Music Bowl.
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Releases
Jon Batiste releases three new albums honoring Mozart and Thelonious Monk
One tribute goes to Mozart and two to Thelonious Monk.
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Tours
Vortex Jazz Club sets a memorial concert for singer Estelle Kokot
She played the London venue for decades before her death earlier this year.
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Releases
PUBLIQuartet releases new album "Rhythm Nation"
The New York string quartet's record spans West African, Venezuelan, jazz and Janet Jackson influences.
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Releases
Norwegian saxophonist-led group Moster! release new album "Bolts"
The Norwegian quartet's closing track, "Bearings," carries an unexpected feel of Black Sabbath.
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Releases
Isaiah Collier releases new single "Joy"
The track is the title cut from Collier's forthcoming EP of the same name, out via SoulTracks' First Listen series.
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Releases
Seth MacFarlane follows his Sinatra project with a new Muppets album
Seth MacFarlane Sings the Muppets arrives September 18, built from orchestral arrangements in the style of Nelson Riddle and Billy May.
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Tours
Drummer Florian Arbenz lines up a September organ trio tour across Europe
The trio, with saxophonist Chris Cheek and organist Arno Krijger, opens 15 September at PizzaExpress Live in Soho and runs through six countries.
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Releases
Nicolas Meier World Group release new album "Elysian Drift"
The sextet's cover art, painted by Meier's wife, maps the places that shaped it.
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Business
Blue Note opens its first UK jazz club in London on 23 September
Robert Glasper headlines the Covent Garden opening, on the centenary of John Coltrane's birth.
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Festivals
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Orchestra headlines the Battersea Park in Concert festival
The bank holiday bill also includes a South Africa-themed day and an Amy Winehouse tribute set marking 20 years since Back to Black.
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Releases
Dinner Party return with another short set of songs
SPIN says Whatchu Bringing? is consistent and soulful, if a little too comfortable.
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Festivals
BKLYN Jazz Festival is postponed too, following the cancelled LA Jazz Festival
JazzTimes points to a lack of executed contracts behind both scrapped debuts.
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Festivals
LA Jazz Festival cancelled hours before its debut, with Legend and Monae billed
Ezra Collective and Raphael Saadiq were also on the bill for the axed festival, NME reports.
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Business
The Spitz, a former East London jazz venue, returns for its 30th anniversary
Two free sessions in August and September mark three decades since it opened.
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Releases
A lost 1988 duo recording by Fred Hersch and Mick Goodrick surfaces as an ECM album
Goodrick, who died in 2022, is heard alongside Hersch on the old-and-new release, JazzTimes reports.
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Tours
Steve Nelson Quartet play a rare London gig at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho
Joris Teepe plays bass and Darren Beckett drums, with pianist Barry Green joining for the September 3 date.
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Releases
Jason Moran releases new album "Jason Moran Plays Duke Ellington"
The solo piano record is denser and grittier than Ellington's own orchestral versions.
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Obituary
Bill Oddie, remembered as a devoted jazz collector, has died
Neighbor and guitarist John Etheridge recalls him singing at their local street festival.
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Releases
Satoko Fujii releases the first of at least five orchestral albums for 2026
Producer Wolfgang Gross found the 2014 tape sitting undiscovered in his own archive.
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Releases
James Acaster starts the band The Wow! Scenario with a jazz-driven single
Zacuti features BC Camplight, and the project has been 20 years in the making.
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Tours
Nigel Price books a 20-date Grassroots Tour for 2026
Seven of the shows are a duo with the Czech guitarist Libor Smoldas.
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Releases
DOMi & JD Beck release second album Who Asked?
The keys-and-drums duo tell NPR they still second-guess themselves daily, even after praise from Anderson .Paak and Herbie Hancock.
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Obituary
Jazz saxophonist Plas Johnson, who played the "Pink Panther" theme, dies at 94
The session musician backed Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Marvin Gaye across a decades-long Los Angeles career.
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Releases
Arturo Sandoval releases new album "Sangú"
The trumpeter served three months in a Cuban jail for tuning into jazz radio before defecting in 1990.