UK Jazz News

November 25, 2024

Za Górami (ECM) London Album Launch. King’s Place Hall One. 23 November 2024. EFG LJF

In Polish, Za Górami is a way of saying ‘once upon a time’ (“za górami, za lasami”/“behind the mountains, behind the forests”). So says singer and violinist Alice Zawadzki of her latest album (released on ECM in September): a collection [...]

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Musicians on a festive stage in a large, ornate building.

Methodist Central Hall Westminster, Sunday 15 December 2024, 6pm

One of the highlights of spending Christmas in London is experiencing the city’s festive spirit firsthand. From carol services at iconic locations like the Actors Church in Covent Garden, to local choir performances on high streets, the city is alive [...]

UK Jazz News provides the most comprehensive EFG London Jazz Festival coverage. We also asked our writers + friends close to the scene about other concerts they've enjoyed...

Camille Bertault at Ladbroke Hall: Ladbroke Hall wows upon entry with a level of sophistication that Camille Bertault – clothed in trilby and tails – matched, adding her playful verve. Unaffected by the hubbub of discreet service, Camille delivered original [...]

Watermill Jazz, Dorking. 12 November 2024

Tickets sold out rapidly for November’s Pete Roth Trio concert at Watermill Jazz. It was the band’s first appearance at the Dorking club and drummers were out in droves to see iconic musician Bill Bruford, whose long career playing drums [...]

Barbican, 22 November 2024. EFG LJF

Master percussionist Zakir Hussein had to drop out of this tour, but any dampening of expectations attending Crosscurrents Trio’s return to the London Jazz Festival after five years was quickly dispelled when the three players took the stage. Eric Harland’s [...]

Cafe Oto matinee performance, 24 November 2024

This special afternoon performance at Cafe Oto, celebrating the launch of Evan Parker’s and Matthew Wright’s Transatlantic Trance Map recording, Marconi’s Drift, brought back together the British component of this momentous UK-US live collaboration which took place on 17 December [...]

New album with Edward Simon, ‘Three Visitors’

The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade. Three Visitors – their new album alongside pianist Edward Simon, featuring guests Becca Stevens, Chris Potter, Jana Dagdagan and Rogério Boccato – was released [...]

Guitarist Timmy Allan came through a tightly competitive final to win the BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician 2024 at a session held at the corporation’s Pacific Quay HQ and broadcast live on air. Allan, a 28-year-old fourth year student [...]

rec. 2014. With Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, Andrew Cyrille

A full decade has elapsed between the recording of this remarkable album (at Avatar Studios in New York) and its debut release, but it still succeeds in sounding both contemporary and strangely timeless. In contrast to most superstar sessions, where [...]

Robin Phillips is a singer, pianist, bandleader, presenter, producer, and educator. After quitting a post-graduate job in PR in 2006, he started to build a full-time career in music, one gig at a time, moving to London before relocating to [...]

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