Jon Batiste’s performance at Royal Festival Hall on the longest – and hottest – day of the year (21 June) tops the list as the best things you could do to fill the hours. As part of the South Bank [...]
It feels fitting that the Southbank Centre’s Meltdown festival – this year directed by rapper Little Simz – should fall on the week during which the city’s temperatures exceed 30°C. On the seventh night of the festival, London-based saxophonist Nubya [...]
“I’ve always been very open-minded!” declares pianist James Pearson cheerfully. And he’s not joking because this extraordinarily versatile musician has over the decades not only led his own jazz trio, long the house band at Ronnie Scott’s, and toured with [...]
On Tuesday night I treated myself to a night out at the bijou cabaret space Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zédel in Piccadilly Circus to hear the MOBO-nominated vocalist Natalie Williams perform in an intimate duo setting with one of the [...]
Two strongly programmed European Jazz Festivals – an inaugural Polish Jazz Festival and the seventh Sounds of Denmark Festival – will be taking place in London at the end September(*) : surely, counterweights at other times of the year to [...]
Ian Carr once called Tim Whitehead “one of the most creative, exciting and passionate saxophonists in Europe”. His creative drive runs deep in other ways too. These days it almost goes unremarked that he can take a project all the [...]
Last night’s show at the 606 Club marked the long-awaited launch of Seasons in Jazz, the latest release from Canadian-born singer-songwriter Sandra-Mae Lux. Known for her 2020 disco-infused debut Happily Ever Now, Lux’s newest project is a striking shift in [...]
“A remarkable life…did he ever sleep? ” wrote John Bungey in his review of film composer, arranger, conductor and saxophonist John Altman’s 2022 remarkable memoir “Hidden Man – My Many Musical Lives”. John Altman has won or been nominated at [...]
This June, the Teddington Riverside Jazz Festival will make its debut. It will do exactly what it says on the tin: bring a stellar line-up packed with emerging talent and established jazz artists to the Lensbury Club’s lawns, a wonderful [...]
Hot on the heels of their debut album, Invisible Worker, yonglee & the DOLTANG bring their amalgamation of progressive rock, electronica, jazz and musical satire to Ronnie Scott’s in mid-June. The band’s leader, yonglee, told UK Jazz News about the [...]
