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Fine finish for city's festival

BIRMINGHAM International Jazz Festival reaches its grand finale over the weekend with the focus of attention moving to the many bars, cafes and restaurants around Broad Street and Hagley Road.Read

Jazz Listings

LISTINGS for the International Jazz Festival in Birmingham. Read

Legend George jazzes up the NIA

Legend George jazzes up the NIARead

Rising star is ready for the big time

TOMORROW night provides a glimpse of the international flavour of jazz when Christine Tobin, an Irish-born London resident, plays at Birmingham's Polish Club.Read

Jazz star returns home for gig

THE brilliant Jazz singer Helen McDonald is set to make a welcome return to her home town.Read

Kyle Eastwood

Get up close and personal

JAZZ star Kyle Eastwood plays the Hare & Hounds on Tuesday when he'll be six days short of his 40th birthday.Read

If film school taught me anything at all, it was that music was my real passion

WHEN I first met Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood in 1995, he was promoting his film about parental loss and profound love - The Bridges of Madison County.Read

Vaughan Williams pieces to be performed at Worcester Cathedral

BROMYARD Wind Band is giving a concert in Worcester Cathedral together with Cradley Singers in Aid of the Worcester Cathedral Appeal for Music and Light on April 12.Read

Jazz collective moves into Moseley

THE ever increasing reach of the Cobweb Collective, Birmingham's united front of jazz and improvised music, has firmly touched base in Moseley.Read

Christopher Norton

Composer's masterclass for young musicians

WORLD-RENOWNED composer and music educationalist Christopher Norton will lead a keyboard and piano masterclass and workshop for young Solihull musicians on April 8.Read

Glasper

Pianist destined for stardom

THE Jam House in the Jewellery Quarter has become one of the best venues outside of London to catch the cream of national and international talent in an intimate club setting before they go on to become big stars.Read

The Big Blues Tribe come to Dudley

BLUES Festival favourites The Big Blues Tribe bring their own brand of big band blues back to The Lamp Tavern in Dudley on April 12.Read

Boost for young Solihull musicians

YOUNG musicians in Solihull have been given a boost from the chairman of John Lewis.Read

Concert to celebrate 90 years of the Royal Air Force

THE RAF are to celebrate their 90th Anniversary with Concert at Symphony Hall in Birmingham on April 6.Read

Folk fans in for a triple treat

THREE special concerts celebrating English traditional music in all its glorious diversity will be coming to Birmingham in April.Read

Vote for your favourite classical music piece

MIDLAND music lovers are being urged to vote for their favourite classical music pieceRead

Fiddlers tune up for event

THERE'S one helluva line-up for Kings Norton's Tower of Song this weekend.Read

Saxophone pair expected to shine

IT is only January but Monday night's gig at Tamworth's Mainstream and Modern Jazz Club, Castle Close, Glascote, featuring saxophonist Don Rendell alongside our own brilliant Chris Bowden, could be a contender for jazz gig of 2008.Read

Jazz calendar gets off to a flying start

BIRMINGHAM Jazz opens its 2008 programme with three events featuring local, national and international bands and performers.Read

Jazz legend Andy Hamilton is still going strong

BIRMINGHAM jazz legend Andy Hamilton has been bombarded with cards, letters and telephone calls from all over the world congratulating him on his MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list.Read