After World War II, Britain was a mess. The country had been bombed during the war, the country lost roughly a half-million people and Britain had to borrow significantly to pay its war bills. On the ...

Earlier this month, a documentary went up at YouTube produced by the BBC as part of its Jazz Britannia series. The documentary tracks the rise of post-war British jazz and helps explain why ...

The musicians seated closest to him nodded their acquiescence, but a few others were too busy chatting between numbers to have heard, and had to be shushed by their fellows. As Mazzy began quietly ...

When singer and trumpeter Anne Linders moved from St. Louis to Boston in 2020, she wanted to put together a new version of her lively traditional jazz band Annie and the Fur Trappers. That proved to ...

S pokesman Colin Jilks said: “Steyning Jazz Club is toe-tappingly excited to present The Bateman Brothers' Jazz Band, a fervently traditional band performing for us on Friday, November 7.

NEW ORLEANS — For the past 19 years, Chris and Bill Stotesbury have traveled from their home south of London for the French Quarter Fest along with a large group of fellow jazz enthusiasts. For most ...

“You Get More With 504” is the slogan for this small but interesting British trad jazz label. And perhaps you do get a bit more bang for your buck from this little company that’s adopted our telephone ...

In a statement, the band called him "a brilliant lyricist, a DJ, a Buddhist, a magnificent stage presence, car lover, endless talker, beautiful person, moral compass and genius." By Kimberly Nordyke ...