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One of the most loved musical events happening in the capital of the United Kingdom, the glorious London Jazz Festival that this year marks its 25th years, since it started, couldn't end in a more spectacular way than welcoming the young American prodigy Jazz singer Añais Reno as the Festival's closing act.

 
At the tender age of 19, Reno has already largely impressed the enormous Jazz community in the United States and beyond with her talent and incredible vocal skills, thanks also through her 2020's debut album called Lovesome Thing: Añais Reno sings Ellington & Strayhorn, a record that has landed to the young Jazz singer numerous accolades from the worldwide music press and Jazz lovers.
 

Read more: Añais Reno - Live At London Jazz Festival - 19th November 2023

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Throughout the whole career of the American Blues/Rock Guitar Supremo and singer/songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd, this must be the very first time that the Louisiana-born artist has left a stop gap time of 4 years between his last studio album and his brand new one.

Obviously, there were very justified reasons behind this time gap. Given the 2020's worldwide pandemic that forced to immobilise live performances to any musician, it was very much understandable that Shepherd and his band would instead release a live album, on the back of the success of the tour that followed the release of the 2019's The Traveler album, perhaps one of the very best of Shepherd's remarkable career to date. Adding to all this the fact that the 25th anniversary of the release of Trouble Is.., Shepherd's most successful record to date was due back in 2022, it makes complete sense that Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his band would release a new studio record just this year.

Read more: Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol.1

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Year after year, our website is very privileged to reward those talented artists that have particularly impressed worldwide audiences either through their live performances or through the release of a hugely inspired studio record.

Our Awards are, as usually, split into two different categories, Artist Of The Year and Best Live Act, with an additional Career Award aimed to recognize and reward the outstanding career of an artist that has been highly inspirational and influential throughout the decades on an international level. 

Read more: Bluebird Reviews Awards 2023 - The nominations