Jazz UK News
Attention all young jazz musicians with Scottish blood: the quest to find The Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year 2012 begins in January when details of how to enter will be posted on the website of the organisers, the Scottish Jazz Federation. Now in its sixth year, the competition has featured winners including pianist Alan Benzie, who went on to become the UK’s first-ever winner of the Billboard Magazine…
The first Jazz4Jed career development bursary, set up in memory of JazzUK founder and Artistic Director of the original Brecon Jazz Festival Jed Williams (see issue 100) has been awarded to saxophonist Jenny Bradley. The £500 award will allow her to travel to New York to spend some time working with Jeff 'King Django' Baker. As she puts it, 'I plan to expand my knowledge and take guidance from a…
Writing tributes to musicians who are no longer with us is a dolorous editorial duty at any time, but the sad passing of a great British original, pianist and composer MICHAEL GARRICK MBE, was close to home in several senses of the term. His 'Home Stretch Blues' band, booked into the rustic Welsh school I attended in the early 70s by an enterprising agent ('Hmm - a lot of... stone...'…
