Between 12 and 21 November 2021, the EFG London Jazz Festival will be presenting almost 400 concerts – an impressive feat indeed, but how on earth will you decide what to watch? When Sam Leak wrote his first ‘Jazz Musician’s [...]
One of the world’s leading sitar maestros, Nishat Khan, will perform a concert of North Indian Classical Music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 11 November 2021, the eve of the London Jazz Festival. The Khans are one of [...]
The 43rd of Jon Turney’s weekly selections is one great bassist’s homage to another. Hard to believe the original Buena Vista Social Club album is 25 years old. And after the first super-hit there followed a string of albums from [...]
South African-raised pianist-singer Estelle Kokot put the period of lockdown to good use and started an online collaboration with percussionist, composer, poet, educationalist and animator Eugene Skeef. Their work together, using his poems as the starting point, started in August 2020, and continues. So far, over 25 [...]
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and its energetic leader Tommy Smith have produced a dazzling variety of work over the past 25 years, ranging from Duke Ellington to Mary Lou Williams, George Gershwin to Kenny Wheeler, Peter & The Wolf [...]
Over the last decade, Norway has become a reliable source of great, modern jazz music. Like their North Sea natural gas, Norway’s jazz culture – supported nobly, one might add, by their government – seems to have limitless reserves of [...]
Over the last few years since graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, the Manchester-born and London-based tenor saxophonist Chelsea Carmichael has carved out a powerful presence touring alongside key new generation artists Theon Cross and Joe Armon-Jones and as a member [...]
