The entire collection of our coverage of the 2024 EFH London Jazz Festival
This review by Finn Genockey of Django Bates rounds off our unrivalled coverage of the 2024 EFG London Jazz Festival. It is our fifty-seventh review of the festival. Django Bates’ name carries a peculiar weight in the London jazz scene. [...]
Brigitte Beraha’s Lucid Dreamers took the audience of Green Note to a vivid world of imagination with a myriad of evocative musical shapes and colours. It was a dreamland that lives up to their name. Beraha’s compositions are heavily charged [...]
Lavery are a painterly eight-piece from Dublin, freshly formed in 2023, with a single What I Want and the a three- track EP Jade Garden behind them. Their confident EFG London Jazz Festival debut at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, was [...]
Tim Berne’s music always reminds me of two other famous composers: J.S Bach and Charlie Parker. There’s something utilitarian about it: like Bach’s music, it can be played on any combination of instruments (with a little bit of work). And [...]
It’s Postmodern Monk, but so is Monk. Xhosa Cole Quartet’s third album and tribute to legendary composer and pianist Thelonious Monk, FreeMonk, freely reworks the legendary composer and pianist with giddy virtuosity. Even so, the album feels comparatively restrained compared [...]
Pianist Thandi Ntuli opened this richly varied evening with a sung recitation over characteristically rolling South African piano,that brought a questioning note to this gala night for the end of the London Jazz Festival. It was a celebration of the [...]
Known as one of Europe’s finest jazz groups, the Marcin Wasilewski Trio certainly turned in a stellar performance at the Cadogan Hall on the penultimate day of the 2024 EFG London Jazz Festival. Alternating between meditative, slow-building, and fast-paced pieces [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
