UK Jazz News

November 16, 2022

EFG LJF 2022. 14 Nov.

Following its postponement in 2020 and 2021, MoodSwing Quartet finally made their much anticipated appearance at the Barbican as part of the 2022 EFG London Jazz Festival. The group – Joshua Redman on saxophones, Brad Mehldau on piano, Christian McBride [...]

Tenor saxophonist, flautist and composer Tori Freestone won the The Ivors Composer Award for Jazz Ensemble for her composition “Birds of Paradise”. The piece features Freestone on flute/triangle, vocals by Brigitte Beraha, and piano by Alcyona Mick, and was premiered [...]

EFG LJF 2022. 13 Nov.

A foggy (Sun)day in London town might have felt like an unlikely time to engage with uncompromising, radical music, but that’s when Jasper Høiby was playing, and he’d sold out, so evidently people were eager to see him. Rescheduled due to a bout [...]

EFG LJF 2022. 13 Nov.

It was the end of the tour for US singer Dianne Reeves and there was a feeling of irrepressible excitement. Her band got into its stride with an instrumental Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise beginning and ending with a [...]

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