Soweto Kinch playing the Vancouver jazz festival today

Cecil Taylor scoops “Japanese Nobel”
Cecil Taylor has been named as one of the winners of the Kyoto prize, a Japanese foundation’s award set up in the 1980s and awarded for global achievement, and seen as the Japanese equivalent to the Nobel prize. Previous composers to win the award include John Cage and Pierre Boulez.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/jazz-legend-cecil-taylor-us-chip-inventor-and-japanese-evolution-biologist-win-kyoto-prize/2013/06/21/069f572c-da4f-11e2-b418-9dfa095e125d_story.html

Vancouver sounds
The Made in the UK caravan makes it to Vancouver. http://vanjazzfest.blogspot.ca/2013/06/downtown-jazz-weekend-june-22-23-2013.html

NME reviews ‘Long live the Jazz’
Before everyone gets too excited it’s grime even if the NME asks: “Ever wondered what Herbie Hancock or Charles Mingus would sound like had they been born 50 years later and raised on a diet of UK bass music?” http://www.nme.com/reviews/various-artists/14525

Nicholas Payton XXX trio in Chicago reviewed
“Those who wanted to hear Payton swinging hard, throwing off phenomenally fast lines and transforming a tune in the process were thus reassured that Payton still has few rivals on his horn.” http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-0622-nicholas-payton-20130622,0,3691795.column

Town hall turn
Oh to be in New York on Friday. Take a look at this bill: http://the-townhall-nyc.org/event/415-blue-note-jazz-festival-wayne-shorter

Zorn chamber work more than adds up
New chamber work for violins from John Zorn based on mathematics. http://www.examiner.com/article/stimulating-chamber-music-for-one-and-two-violins-by-john-zorn?cid=rss

Glasgow jazz festival on the horizon
And it’s The Indy’s “jazz festival of the week".
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/jazz-festival-of-the-week-glasgow-international-jazz-festival-various-venues-glasgow-8668744.html