UK Jazz News

July 1, 2022

Vortex. 3 July

The London Jazz Orchestra’s 30th anniversary season will close this Sunday afternoon 3 July (*) with a concert featuring the music of Martin Speake and Henry Lowther. There is an LJN connection here… The concert will have compositions by Henry [...]

Gwen Ansell has posted the news that Eric Alan Wannenburg (known as Eric Alan) has passed away, and collected together some tributes – LINK HERE She writes: “The light of a beacon for South African jazz dies… the ecosystem that nurtures [...]

Jeff Parker (solo guitar)

This is the first in a series of reports from the 2022 Montreal International Jazz Festival. I will be doing a round-up for The Arts Desk. Here on LJN I will post gig reviews… plus “dispatches”, i.e. general observations, including [...]

From the very first notes of the opening track on saxophonist Oded Tzur’s latest album Isabela, there is an impression of spiritual wonder. Invocation has a majesty and presence that heralds what is to come, rather like the first notes [...]

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