UK Jazz News

November 16, 2024

Crazy Coqs. 15 November 2024. EFG LJF

Just for a moment, I thought I’d fallen through a wormhole and woken up in a Sonny Rollins/ Thelonious Monk gig at the legendary Five Spot in New York. A packed underground room with a bar in the corner, all [...]

Royal Festival Hall. 15 November 2024. EFG LJF

The Opening night “Jazz Voice” gala for the EFG London Jazz Festival opened with a real surprise – the new face of Veronica Swift. Though still burning with bebop scat lines, and impeccably in sync with the saxes in the [...]

Cadogan Hall. 15 November 2024. EFG LJF.

Having released his 10th album “Seeing” on ECM this year, Tord Gustavsen is a man who needs little introduction. A hugely celebrated pianist in his native Norway, he proved equally popular on the other side of the North Sea for [...]

KOKO. 15 November 2024. EFG LJF

American neo-soul bassist, vocalist and songwriter, Meshell Ndegeocello, finished the tour of her new album No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin at London venue KOKO as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival on its opening night. Ndegeocello [...]

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