It's been a long time since that late May, 2013 week in Luleå, Sweden, where pianist Django Bates and his Belovèd Trio first collaborated with the renowned Norrbotten Big Band. Fully documented in the ...

In the programme note which accompanied the concert, Evan Parker (pictured below by Caroline Forbes) describes the scale of Charlie Parker’s towering presence in jazz history. He is “our Leonardo, ...

Bates has transcribed the album afresh, but retained the original structures and keys, and with the musical foundations unchanged, there’s an eerie double-take on first listen. Lead vocals on this ...

3 Video: MISS SAIGON Shares New Trailer as Tickets Go On Sale For West End Return Django was a leading light in the 1980s European jazz renaissance. The Dutch Metropole Orchestra, The Brodsky Quartet, ...

Few jazz artists go to such great lengths to make their audience feel at the same time bewildered by humor-infused technical exhaustion and smitten by charm and sheer musical beauty as Django Bates ...