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The first Tokyo show and the Osaka shows are sold out, and a second Tokyo show on June 13th is now on sale. To celebrate, we have a competition to win a fine bottle of barley Shochu in the members area of the site.
Attention everyone. Jamie will be performing with Soil and Pimp Sessions on both nights of WISM and not just on saturday as we may have led you to believe before. Friday's halloween night show with Soil & Pimp Sessions will be an electric set and the following day, Organic Saturday, will be an acoustic set with Soil & Pimp Sessions. At the end of both days all musicians will perform together in a big jam session. And on top of all that there will be a costume contest on Friday night, so get dressed up! [more...]
"What the world needs now... " is Jamie to perform at the BBC Electric Proms with Burt Bacharach. And that's exactly what will be happening on the 22nd of October when Jamie will join Adele and Beth Rowley as a guest vocalist for "Burt Bacharach and the BBC Concert Orchestra"! More details and coverage of the Electric Proms will be on bbc.co.uk/electricproms [more...]
Jamie will be performing with Soil And Pimp Sessions and Medeski Martin and Wood at the 20th J-Wave 81.3FM Where Is The Music Festival on the 31st October - 1st November. More detail in the gigs section. [more...]
Jamie has written an article in today's Guardian about the late Esbjörn Svensson. Read it here [more...]
DJmag.com is running its Top 100 DJs poll at the moment. We highly recommend popping over there and voting for Darren Emerson (who Jamie played alongside at this year's Sonar festival) - because he's brilliant. Voting closes on the 24th of September. [more...]
Jamie's trumpet-player, Rory Simmons will be on tour with his quartet over the next 6 weeks, starting with a special performance at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, on the 24th August Tickets available here. The rest of the tour includes Dempseys, Cardiff (16th Sep), The Yardbird, Birmingham (18th Sep), The Be-Bop Club, Bristol (19th Sep), St Ausell Brewery Arts Centre, Cornwall (25th Sep) and Charlie Wrights, London (Oct 2nd) [more...]
If you missed Jamie's first show hosting The Best Of Jazz on BBC Radio 2 last night, worry not. You can listen again here! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00czjpr/ [more...]
Jamie will have his own weekly show on BBC Radio 2 starting this Monday! He will be picking up the mantle from the greatly-missed broadcasting legend Humphrey Lyttelton with The Best of Jazz. Expect to hear all the best sounds on today's scene, classic tracks from across the generations, as well as treasured discs from Jamie's own collection every Monday night at 10:30pm. [more...]
Jamie attended the BBC Jazz Awards recently where he presented the Services To Jazz Award to Alan Bates and performed along side Kyle Eastwood, Jeff Beck, and the Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra. [more...]
Jamie's track These Are The Days was used in the closing montage of the BBC's Wimbledon tennis coverage recently. If you haven't seen it, check it out here. [more...]
