Eurojazz club highlights: 29 April-1 May

Kandace Springs Porgy & Bess, Vienna Monday 29 April Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet + Lightville Unterfahrt, Munich Tuesday 30 Apr Rising Sun proved quite a revelation last year - pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar, a musician hailing from Mongolia …

Published: 25 Apr 2024. Updated: 16 days.

Rising Sun proved quite a revelation last year - pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar, a musician hailing from Mongolia where she studied in Ulaanbaatar later championed by the Goethe Institute and excelling academically in Munich where she is based, joined on the album by soprano saxophonist Anton Mangold who also played flute on the record and by bassist Nils Kugelmann and drummer Valentin Renner. Tunes are strong, often quite bittersweet and poignant in nature, with hints of folklore from her homeland as on the flute line on 'An Answer From The Distant Hill'. Gentle and thoughtful it's all highly distinctive and speaks to the heart. Sold out.

Charlotte Greve, Chris Tordini and Vinnie Sperrazza play from Town of Two Faces Tues 30 Apr

A Paris tribute to English alto sax great Peter King for International Jazz Day

  • Zoh Amba’s Bhakti feat. Farida Amadou and Chris Corsano Bimhuis, Amsterdam Wednesday 1 May

Kandace Springs plays Vienna on Monday night. Photo: press

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Anthony Braxton, the Aaron Diehl trio, Guy Barker and Lizz Wright are among the jazz acts at the Proms

Jazz at the Proms this year includes an appearance for the first time by avant-garde alto saxophone master and composer Anthony Braxton who joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Aaron Diehl trio in a programme that explores 100 years …

Published: 25 Apr 2024. Updated: 23 days.

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Jazz at the Proms this year includes an appearance for the first time by avant-garde alto saxophone master and composer Anthony Braxton who joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Aaron Diehl trio in a programme that explores 100 years of American jazz and encompasses a performance of Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite as part of an Ellington, Williams and Braxton prom on 15 August.

Other jazz related content this year includes a major tribute to ''the divine'' Sarah Vaughan - Sassy- featuring Lizz Wright entitled If You Could See Me Now (28 July), the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Guy Barker joined by the Georgia born jazz vocals great of our times Wright who was inspired by the 1965 released Sarah Sings Soulfully version of the Ric Marlow-Bobby Scott classic 'A Taste of Honey' that Wright herself went on to record for her stunning 2005 album Dreaming Wide Awake.

Appearing too in the Proms Sassy tribute are Marisha Wallace, Lucy-Anne Daniels and Cherise, the UK Anita Baker influenced jazz singer known for her work on the Downtown Abbey film and for hosting A Great Day in London, in this must-hear Vaughan celebration scheduled for 28 July and to be broadcast live on BBC Four.

Also this year are the UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis' 'Herald, Holler and Hallelujah' (4 August) and a premiere of Jacob Collier's 'World O World' on 7 September plus an appearance by the great Tuareg group Tinariwen (28 Aug) playing the desert blues.

Runs from 19 July-14 September at the Royal Albert Hall, London and venues around the UK. Tickets go on sale on 18 May. Anthony Braxton, graphic: BBC