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It’s around this time in the month of November that jazz fans from around the country are looking to organise their schedules, book trains and sort out which shows in the 2024 EFG London Jazz Festival they’ll be attending. The [...]
Brick Lane Jazz Festival, in partnership with Jazz re:freshed and Tomorrow’s Warriors, have announced their first wave of artists for 2025. Returning for a fourth year and headlined by Ragz Orginale, Adi Oasis and Laraaji, it will take place in [...]
Greg Spero is a pianist, composer, producer and educator from Los Angeles. He will be returning to Ronnie Scott’s, this time joined by the London version of his jazz fusion group Spirit Fingers featuring Lox (drums), Ben Glasser (guitar), and [...]
Nestled unassumingly in Nine Elms, Battersea, is one of South London’s best kept secrets for serious music lovers – World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens. This state-of-the-art concert hall, recording studio and music academy doesn’t pop up in the list of [...]
Trumpeter/composer Chris Batchelor has assembled a group of top UK players to interpret the beautifully melancholic compositions of trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, from the early recordings such as Balladyna, through to the classic albums Dark Eyes, From the Green Hill and Litania, including Komeda’s iconic ballad ‘Sleep Safe [...]
Scintillating, celebrated Britjazz marvels Empirical call in at Newhampton Arts Centre in Wolverhampton for a keenly awaited gig – with a fresh line-up. The reconfigured band comes to the Midlands minus vibraphone player Lewis Wright, who had been a stalwart [...]
“I have a long relationship with Ronnie Scott’s,” remarks vibraphonist Joe Locke, who next plays there with his working American quartet on October 29, one day before the venerable London jazz club celebrates its 65th anniversary. As on his last [...]
On Thursday 10 October, French guitarist / singer / band leader Benoit Viellefon is launching his new album Out of Dates at The Brunswick, Hove with a concert by his Hot Club. Benoit Viellefon, originally from Northern France, has led [...]
Brown’s Hotel has been called the jewel in the crown of luxury hotels in London. …and on Tuesdays to Thursday evenings from 1 October to 19 December, its welcoming Drawing Room, which is normally known as one of the poshest [...]
Lyrics by Sting, Joe Jackson and Kent-based singer-songwriter-activist Nina Clark feature alongside those of Great American Songbook contributors Lorenz Hart and Sammy Kahn and the singer himself in Kurt Elling’s latest concerts with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Kurt Elling, [...]
