Mopomoso Vortex Jazz Club. Sunday 16 November 2025, 2pm www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/mopomo...

Dimension Inhabited By Spirits Moreskinsound (David Toop / Ania Psenitsnikova) + Sharon Gal / John Butcher + Flavia Ghisalberti / Sylvia Hallett Cafe OTO. Sunday 11 January 2026, 7.30pm www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/dimen...

Sun Ra at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1986. Photo by Peter Yates

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Olympia, Paris, February 27/28, 1965 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbRC...

Day Listens: Doug Carn - Adams Apple Byron Morris & Unity - Vibrations, Themes & Serenades Okyerema Asante - Drum Message Big Black - Lion Walk

Malangatana Ngwenya - Untitled, 2010, oil on canvas

"I think the meditation is in the sound and in the music. When I perform I am bringing myself to the stage to be a vessel for the music to move through." Happy Birthday Susie Ibarra born November 15, 1970

Happy Birthday Ali Haurand born 15 November 1943

"The idea of taking a situation of cultural production as a total social event, and addressing it quite carefully - all of this was informed by my early years." On the Ethnography of Media Production An Interview with Georgina Born www.iluminace.cz/pdfs/ilu/201...

"I have an interest in the activist core; but ultimately I am an older person. I am not a composer or active as a musician these days. However, I think my role as an academic and theoretician is important." Happy Birthday Georgina Born born 15 November 1955

"I was about eleven years old and had some difficulty in seeing over the 28-inch bass drum. Now I am older I have learned to like more types of music, but I have always liked some­thing that really swings. I liked the jazz bands." Happy Birthday Gus Johnson born November 15, 1913

Michael Griener and Sven-Åke Johansson, with the late John Russell's guitar in front, at Vor Ort '90, Eisfabrik, Hannover, 1 July 1990. Photo courtesy of Michael Griener

Mary Oliver & Luca Tilli - WE INSIST! Live at Casa delle Arti, Cernusco sul Naviglio, Milan, Italy, 29 March 2025 www.ursss.com/2025/11/mary...

Day Listens: Hägler Häusermann Schütz - Auf Der Hut Hermann Keller - Quartett Nicht Ohne Wasser | Solo Piano 29 Stücke Michael Vetter - Il flauto dolce ed acerbo Ton·Art - Mal Vu. Mal Dit.

Ibrahim El-Salahi - Untitled, 1976, ink and colour marker drawing on paper

Don Pullen & George Adams afternoon clinic at Tri-C Jazz Fest, Cleveland, April 7, 1989. Photo by Mark Weber

"Wellll… like, you take a stroll through any big city, not through the red light district necessarily… but to areas where people are dressed certain ways, and are into a funk mood... that's the picture I'm trying to create here." George Adams 29 April 1940 - 14 November 1992

"I try not to just play George, 'cause George is gonna be George no matter what. I have to play different ways for different people. I try to be myself, be true to myself and my philosophy and still be able to play with people." Happy Birthday George Cables born 14 November 1944

"I am comfortable being in the shadow. My father had very strict principles, he was a purist, he used to remind me that an artist is serving the art and not the other way around." Michel Colombier 23 May 1939 - 14 November 2004

Groove Development - Traces of our Younger Selves Odie Ji Ghast voice David Birchall guitar released November 14, 2025 scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/traces...

GIOfest XVII Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra The festival will present a series of concerts, workshops, films, discussions, exploring new possibilities for large ensemble performance, improvisation and composition CCA Glasgow 20th-22nd November 2025 www.glasgowimprovisersorchestra.com/giofest/xvii/

Tony Coe's Axel - What Say We Play Today? Limited edition album featuring Tony Coe, Gordon Beck, Phil Lee, Chris Laurence and Bryan Spring. Recorded during the Camden Jazz Festival at the Shaw Theatre in Euston, London in 1977 releases December 11, 2025 jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/what-s...

Francois Houle Georg Graewe - music for clarinet and piano releases December 1, 2025 georggraewe.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

"'Charles Mingus' music does not exist! People still listen to him and don't understand that he is ridiculous, but it will come. There is a word that Americans use: the word is 'pathetic'." Not About Nothing: A Conversation With Misha Mengelberg www.icporchestra.com/misha/2025/9...

Horace Silver, 1963 - Photo by Roy DeCarava

Sonny Stitt & J.J. Johnson All Stars - In Memoriam Charlie Parker, Südwestfunk (SWF) TV Studio, Baden-Baden, Germany, 15-16/10/1964 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTV2...

Day Listens: Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet - Tension Irene Schweizer Maggie Nicols George Lewis Joëlle Léandre Günter Sommer - The Storming Of The Winter Palace Steve Lacy - The Way Louis Armfield Nedly Elstak Harry Piller Glenn Spearman - Incident

Esteban Frances - Surrealist Composition, undated, mixed media on paper

"My roots lie in being addicted to playing the cello." Happy Birthday Ernst Reijseger born 13 November 1954

"A lot of us don't get this chance and they love the music so much that they do it until they say 'He used to play better than that.' I don't wanna do that, man. If it gets to that point, I'm goin' fishin." Happy Birthday Idris Muhammad born November 13, 1939

Erroll Garner performing with his trio (bassist Eddie Calhoun and drummer Kelly Martin) at the Murphy Army Hospital in Waltham, MA in 1957. Photo uncredited

"Erroll's technique has rubbed off on me...I find myself now adapting a lot of techniques that he used, color and phrasing. The next thing I realize the piano player I'm working with will be falling into the line of this type of rhythm...he haunts me." Happy Birthday Eddie Calhoun November 13, 1921

"The piano was the only sure friend I had because it was the only thing that was consistent, always made sense and responded directly to what I did. Pianos don't ever change." Happy Birthday Hampton Hawes born November 13, 1928

"I believe there are certain freedoms, beauties, and truths about music in the wild. There's a magic of merging musicians, audience, and music all together in a particular, specific, finite moment of time and space that can’t happen any other way." Happy Birthday Alex Coke November 13, 1953

"I don't look, I find" Bruno Maderna 21 April 1920 - 13 November 1973

Anaximenes Awakening - Teresa Hackel album launch concert Teresa Hackel recorders Tony Hardie-Bick digital modelled synthesis Jonny K Martin trumpet / treatments Douglas Benford tenor recorder / objects Hundred Years Gallery. Sunday 14th December 15:30 hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-anaxim...

"The real boppers always hated Brubeck immensely but I couldn't care less whether anyone stuck to Parker's bebop bible or not." Dave Brubeck Couldn't Whistle With His Fingers, Misha Mengelberg interview, Jazzjaarboek 6, Van Gennep, 1987 by Erik van den Berg www.icporchestra.com/misha/2025/9...

Ernst Reijseger - Photo by Bill Smith

Anouck Genthon & Lionel Marchetti - Live at Casa Tonale, Torino, Italy, 23/03/2023 youtu.be/hLNFljhuO9o?...

Day Listens: Anton Lukoszevieze & Arturas Bumsteinas - Zarasai Albert Cirera/Olle Vilkström/Ulrich Mitzlaff/Alvaro Rosso/Carlos "Zingaro" - Cròniques 5: Ao Vivo! Denzler Dörner Erdmann Griener Müller - Stralau Agustí Fernández Yasmine Azaiez Núria Andorrà - Future Memories

Kamala Ishaq - Untitled, oil on canvas

Roy Haynes, Jimmy Jones and Joe Benjamin - New York, NY, 1956. Photo by Roy DeCarava

"When I get behind the set, sometimes I don't know what direction I'm going to go. It's like an abstract painting, adding certain things and leaving out others as you proceed. I try to let the music stroll." Roy Haynes March 13, 1925 - November 12, 2024

"The bass, after all, is the root of the whole thing. And certainly, after all, Sam Jones has some pretty strong roots." - Oscar Pettiford Happy Birthday Sam Jones born November 12, 1924

Buck Clayton (right) under the awning of The Famous Door in New York City with Ben Webster and Benny Morton, 1938. Photo from the Buck Clayton Collection

"The Basie orchestra never let up. They would swing you into bad health... I had never heard such swingin' music in my life... there were only nine of them, but that nine could out-swing anything that I'd ever heard." Happy Birthday Buck Clayton born November 12, 1911

Surround Sound: Sharon Gal / Moshi Honen / Kathy Hinde A unique, immersive experience brings together three experimental composers/performers to engage with Café OTO's surround sound system Cafe OTO. Wednesday 7 January 2026, 7.30pm www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/surro...

Maggie Nicols: The Gathering V Monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols The Horse Hospital. Monday 17 November 2025, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm www.thehorsehospital.com/events/maggi...

knot#7 solos, duos Regan Bowering / Colin Webster / Zheng Hao Hundred Years Gallery. Saturday 29th November 19:30 hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-knot-7/

Butch Morris - Photo by Hans Nederbragt