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Elina Duni, Rob Luft and Fred Thomas in Norwich

By londonjazz on 26 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Elina Duni, Rob Luft and Fred Thomas (Octagon Chapel, Norwich. Norfolk and Norwich Festival. 24 May 2022 . Live Review by Bruce Lindsay) The Norfolk and Norwich Festival billed this late-night concert […]

Tomorrow’s New Quartet (Oughton/ Kay/ Gordon/ Moore) – ‘All Together, Now!’

By londonjazz on 25 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Tomorrow’s New Quartet – All Together, Now! (Ubuntu UBU0110 – Album review by Mark McKergow) British drummer Rod Oughton assembles a top line-up to perform his neat and varied jazz compositions and […]

Jazz Tributes to Bob Blizzard

By londonjazz on 24 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Jazz needs strong and persuasive advocates in the right places who can make a difference, and former MP Bob Blizzard, who died from cancer on 5 May 2022 at the age of […]

Manel Fortià Trio at The Mediterranean Jazz Festival, NYC

By londonjazz on 23 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

(Manel Fortià trio (The Mediterranean Jazz Festival, Drom NYC, 21 May 2022. Live review by Dan Bergsagel) On Saturday night Manel Fortià returned to New York for the launch of his latest album, […]

FORJ – ‘Our Space’

By leahsiennaljn on 23 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )
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FORJ – Our Space(Digital release only. Review by AJ Dehany) FORJ play music the way you want it to be played, with a creativity resistant to running orders but respectful to form […]

Judith Owen (new album ‘Come On and Get It’ due Sep 2022)

By londonjazz on 23 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Welsh-born singer Judith Owen has strong stories to tell in her new album “Come On and Get It”, which will be released in September, and a great team to help her tell […]

Pepper Adams with The Tommy Banks Trio – ‘Live at Room at the Top’ (rec. 1972)

By londonjazz on 23 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Pepper Adams with The Tommy Banks Trio – Live at Room at the Top (Cellar Music Group/Reel to Real Recordings. Album review by Sebastian Scotney) Did the great baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams […]

Fergus McCreadie to become 8th BBC Radio 3 New Generation (jazz) artist

By londonjazz on 23 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

BBC Radio 3 have announced today the next cohort of participants in their New Generation Artists scheme. Pianist Fergus McCreadie becomes the eighth jazz musician to join the scheme (full list of […]

10 Ben Monder Tracks I Can’t Do Without…by Ant Law

By ljazzn on 21 May 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

“Many artists seem to plateau after a while, to “coast” – Ben is NOT one of these. He continues to surprise me,” writes guitarist Ant Law. In the latest of LJN’s series […]

Lucid Dreamers (Brigitte Beraha) – ‘Blink’

By londonjazz on 20 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Lucid Dreamers (Brigitte Beraha) – Blink (Let Me Out Records. Album review by AJ Dehany)  Dreaming continues to permeate the work of Brigitte Beraha’s quartet Lucid Dreamers on this second album Blink, […]

Dearest Sister (Sweden) sign to ACT / new single released today, album in November

By Charles Rees on 20 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The ACT label is announcing today that the Swedish band Dearest Sister is the latest addition to its family of artists. At the core of Swedish band Dearest Sister is the creative partnership […]

Sun Ra Arkestra at EartH

By londonjazz on 20 May 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Sun Ra Arkestra (EartH, promoted by Cafe Oto, 15 May 2022; review and drawings by Geoff Winston) In its own understatedly riotous way, the Sun Ra Arkestra, led by the explosive, single-mindedness […]

OGUN ‘Blue Notes reissue series 2022’

By londonjazz on 19 May 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

OGUN ‘Blue Notes reissue series 2022 Legacy – Live in South Afrika 1964. OGCD024 Blue Notes for Mongezi. OGCD025/026 Blue Notes in Concert. OGCD027 Blue Notes for Johnny. OGCD028 Album reviews by […]

‘Disproving Kipling’ – Grand Union Orchestra 40th Anniversary Concert (Hackney Empire, 15th May 2022)

By ljazzn on 17 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

For forty years, the Grand Union Orchestra has been telling stories of migration, of war, of change and hope. For each one of those years, GUO has been building its own audience […]

Picks from Glasgow Jazz Festival (16-19 June 2022) and Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival (15-24 July 2022)

By londonjazz on 16 May 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Full programmes for both the Glasgow and Edinburgh jazz festivals have now been released. Patrick Hadfield and Mark McKergow, two of LJN’s ‘friends in the North’, have scrutinised both line-ups. Here are […]

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