Lokkhi Terra Ronnie Scott’s, London The warm glow of Ronnie’s 60th birthday celebrations of 2019 may be gently fading in the first few weeks of the new decade, but this is a welcome burst of heat for the rigours of ‘dry January.’ Led by keyboardist-composer Kishon Khan Lokkhi Terra is an inspired proposition, an encounter of Indian, Cuban and African […]

Following on from 2017’s Nat King Cole & Me album, Gregory Porter’s forthcoming album All Rise, due April 17 from Decca/Blue Note, marks a return to original songwriting. The first single from it, Revival, can be heard right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyxVT0WPsXc Says Gregory: “For me, it’s the message of walking into this life and having some fear and self-doubt, and the point […]

Will Downing, Dexter Wansel, Damien Escobar, Kelly Finnigan, Steve Arrington and Marla Brown singing the music of her father Dennis are amongst gigs of note for Echoes folk upcoming at London’s Jazz Café in the near future. An updated schedule at the Camden venue looks like this: Jazz re:freshed presents The Sounds Of 2020 featuring Ife Ogunjobe, Golden Mean & Burnheart […]

Top US R&B groups Jagged Edge and 112 are set to join forces for a set of special UK live shows in the late spring of 2020. The Jagged Edge/112 Experience – with support from R&B star Case – comes to O2 Academy Birmingham on Friday May 1, O2 Apollo Manchester on Saturday May 2 and will wind up at […]

The 2019 Jazz FM vocalist of the year Cherise set to release her first single today, Friday, November 29, ahead of her debut EP Paradise, due for release in January 2020. At just 24, Cherise has had an interesting career so far, having performed at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. and The Proms here in London, as well as […]

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Isley Brothers have announced their return to the UK for the first time in over a decade as part of their 2020 European tour, following on from their You Make Me Wanna Shout US tour earlier this year celebrating the 60th anniversary since they first released their classic single Shout. Featuring founding member Ronald […]

First headline acts for the annual Love Supreme Jazz Festival at Glynde in East Sussex have been announced: they include  The Isley Brothers, TLC, Sergio Mendes and Charles Lloyd. Now in its eighth year, Love Supreme has grown into Europe’s biggest outdoor jazz [and jazz-related] festival, and will return to the picturesque setting of the South Downs in East Sussex from Friday, […]

Last Night At the Proms was a few months ago, but there was still time for a Music For Youth Prom last week at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall. Celebrating its 50th birthday the event brought together some 200 talented juniors for two nights of gala concerts presented by saxophonist-composer-educator Yolanda Brown. On stage were small groups, chamber ensembles, rock […]

Acclaimed DJ, filmmaker and BBC Radio 6 Music host Don Letts is set to perform a one-off North East show when he rolls into Teesside this Autumn. He will bring his vast knowledge of reggae and punk music to Middlesbrough Town Hall for a special DJ set on Saturday, November 23, celebrating the premiere of the eagerly anticipated documentary Rudeboy: […]

The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, North London has a series of interesting ‘in the round’ shows coming up in the new year, some of which feature artists of note to Echoes readers. The first such will be vocalist Alice Russell, who’ll pay the venue on Saturday, January 25 and no doubt include some tunes from her upcoming new album. Also […]