Young Scottish singer Luca Manning wins top UK jazz award

Added on 01 July 2020

Young Glasgow singer Luca Manning has won the Newcomer of the Year prize at the 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards...

Move to rename Bristol venue after pianist Keith Tippett gains momentum

Added on 22 June 2020

A petition to rename Colston Hall, Bristol in honour of pianist-composer Keith Tippett has gathered over 1000 ...

Style-setting Scottish band STRATA releases new single

Added on 30 May 2020

Graham Costello's STRATA has released a single, Lyra, as part of the deal the band signed with London-base...

Glass artist creates new work with exhibition to follow

Added on 29 May 2020

Glass artist Alison Kinnaird MBE has created a new work, 'Lockdown 2020' to highlight the problems tha...

Tommy Smith streams video featuring solo saxophone and illustrious guests

Added on 23 May 2020

Saxophonist Tommy Smith has added to the huge number of streams that musicians from the jazz scene have turn...

Key Workers Waltz sets fiddler on course for the heart of Midlothian

Added on 21 May 2020

A Welsh fiddler who composed a tune for a nurse in Pathhead, Midlothian was surprised to discover that it was ...

Influential advocate for jazz John Cumming dies

Added on 19 May 2020

John Cumming, one of the most prominent figures on the international jazz scene as festival organiser, tour ma...

Music mourns the passing of Aberdeen's quiet hero, Sandy Brown

Added on 23 April 2020

The music scene has lost one of its great champions with the death, at the age of seventy-four, of Sandy Brown...