Following last year’s very successful Saturday Love All-Dayer in Palmers Green, the vintage event featuring authentic 1980s American and British Funk and Jazz returns to Broomfield Park on 21 June 2025. Appearing from 3 to 10pm in the classic back-in-time [...]
Harry Belafonte was arguably one of the most distinguished musical artists, actors and human rights campaigners of the last 70 years. Born in New York City to Jamaican parents on 1 March 1927, the singer-activist led a life full of [...]
There’s nothing quite like the leonine orchestral roar of horns and the full sonic range that the best bandleaders succeed in coaxing out of any top-class large ensemble. Trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra (JLCO), has been [...]
Arnaud Dolmen’s lively French Caribbean rhythms brought great cheer to his Ladbroke Hall audience on a dreary and drizzly Friday evening. The Guadeloupean drummer’s Adjusting Quartet (with pianist Leonardo Montana, acoustic bassist Samuel F’Hima and tenor saxophonist Francesco Geminiani) performed [...]
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 [...]
Cyrus Chestnut concerts are generous aural buffets. With an unfaltering left hand teasing out wondrous harmonies and a mercurial right hand painting pretty improvised melodies, the Baltimore-born maestro draws from a near bottomless well of genres and styles – Black [...]
While jazz traces its roots to Louisiana, the story of the music’s evolution is typically told along the lines of a melding of European and African musical influences. Congo Square and the bordellos of Storyville are frequently and superficially depicted [...]
A London audience had the rare chance to hear Brighton-based jazz star Lawrence Jones showcase his much-appreciated talents. And what a memorable performance it was, as the triple-threat artist (flute, alto saxophone and vocals) took patrons through a gratifying selection [...]
Co-Motion, one of this year’s noteworthy jazz releases, is a collaboration between Belgian drummer Kobe Gregoir and Dutch/Congolese spoken word artist, Danielle Zawadi. Kobe’s considerable compositional nous harks back to the halcyon hard bop days of the 1960s. Sturdily constructed [...]
Lovers of vintage 1980s American and Brit Funk and funk jazz will be in for a special treat on 22 June when the Saturday Love All-Dayer comes to Broomfield Park in Palmers Green. From 1pm to 9pm, patrons will be [...]
