The post punk-jazz quartet Get the Blessing won the BBC Jazz Album of the Year for 2008 and their most recent album ‘Bugs in Amber’ promises more excellent riffs and thrashing horns. You can see them at the Swanage Jazz Festival on July 12.
Get the Blessing
Swanage Jazz Festival

British rocker Justin Adams and virtuoso West African riti player Juldeh Camara are an amazing cross-continental collaboration, as you can hear on their recently released album “Tell No Lies”. You can also see them at the Montreal Jazz Festival on July 10.

Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara
Montreal Jazz Festival

Conceptual artists Ibrahim Quraishi is presenting a mini version of the performance installation ‘Islamic Violins’ at the CBK Dordrecht, The Netherlands on June 26th. The piece, like much of Quraishi’s work deals with politically charged topics, and in this case the piece is charged with small explosives.
Ibrahim Quraishi
KadmusArts Podcast with Ibrahim Quraishi

South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim has played with Max Roach and Duke Ellington while in exile from the apartheid regime. He continues his blues-tinged virtuosity at Schlossfestspiele in Germany on June 21.
Abdullah Ibrahim
Schlossfestspiele

Azerbaijan-born, Netherlands-based jazz pianist and composer Amina Figarova leads her band through jaunty and dynamic arrangements at many a festival. You can see her on June 25th at the Calgary Jazz Festival.
Amina Figarova
Calgary Jazz Festival