Tom Excell News Today

As Taylor Swift tops $1bn in tour revenue, musicians playing smaller venues are facing pitiful fees and frequent losses. Should the state step in to save our live music scene?

The festival gives music lovers the chance to enjoy loads of gigs taking place all over Falmouth.

A cracking month for the Bristol jazz scene gets going straight away with a star-spangled display of all kinds of jazz and funk fireworks

★★★★☆That title is more than a tad ironic, considering how the music, restless but unfailingly tuneful, reflects the interconnectedness of the modern world. Her

It isn’t just London enjoying a rebirth and remoulding of its jazz scene - Scotland is seeing a similar renaissance

The flies, the damnable flies! It’s too darn hot here in rural France – but at least I can take myself off to the nearby river with a good book and an MP3 player primed with promos. There’s plenty of fine new singles from the Latin world to freshen things up, even if this month... <a class="view-article" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/subjects/music/prezident-markons-singles-round-up-tim-bernardes-amai-kuda-et-les-bois-bruno-berle-afro-andean-funk-sessa-and-mo...

Featuring Stonebwoy, Focalistic x Cassper Nyovest, Muthoni Drummer Queen, Joojo Addison x Amaarae, Mr Eazi, Hailu Mergia and more.

For many years now, the 30th of April has been known as the International Jazz Day; and in Prague, the day has been regularly celebrated by the organizers of

Adrian Spinelli March 11, 2021Updated: March 14, 2021, 6:51 pm Valerie June performs at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2019. June’s latest album, “The Moon & Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers,” draws dreamy scenarios. Photo: Bobby Bank, Getty Images The Chronicle’s guide to notable new music. NEW ALBUMS Valerie June, “The Moon & Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers” (Fantasy) The fifth album from the Memphis singer-songwriter is more than just a roots music release. Blendin...

04.02.21 Ten-strong jazz group Nubiyan Twist have spent the past five years honing themselves as a creative vehicle for collaborative expression. Having previously combined forces with Afro-jazz luminaries such as Tony Allen and Mulatu Astatke, the band have carved out a high-energy sound that meanders from the frenetic melodies of Ghanaian highlife to the funk-inflected jazz exemplified by Donald Byrd and to a languorous West Coast hip-hop production style. Their latest album, Freedom Fables...