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The world premiere of a collaboration between alto saxophonist and composer Cassie Kinoshi with her boundary-pushing group seed. (formerly SEED Ensemble, formed in 2016) and the full might of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) under Ben Gernon, met with great [...]
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 [...]
John Butcher, maverick, groundbreaking saxophonist célèbre, celebrated his 70 years in style, with a three day residency at Cafe Oto. I caught the second night, the only one which featured a rare solo performance prefacing his duet with percussionist Gino [...]
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 [...]
Lucky for us, the Yellowjackets come to London often, and their gigs always touch a nerve that gets me thinking and feeling. This time it was that they don’t, or won’t fight. They’re bigger than that. Or is it that [...]
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 [...]
The Jazz Repertory Company’s fourth concert with strings for the EFG London Jazz Festival will include recently unearthed arrangements by Tubby Hayes, that have never been performed in public – until now. Here, Richard Pite (*) talks to Simon Spillett [...]
The seventeen-piece Big Colors Big Band, led by trumpeter David Shires, makes a rare live appearance when it plays Jazz Café POSK in November with a programme drawn from some of the jazz greats of the mid-twentieth century. David spoke [...]
A new Festival in London! It’s always exciting to witness – and capture through my lens – a fresh addition to the city’s vibrant music scene. The inaugural POSK Festival of Jazz Voice at Jazz Café POSK brought together an [...]
