Yes! Trio (New Morning, Paris, 3 December 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What happens when everything goes right? When three friends who already knew each other as music students remain in contact […]
Yes! Trio at New Morning in Paris
Jason Moran and The Bandwagon at the Village Vanguard
Jason Moran and The Bandwagon (Village Vanguard, NYC, 27 November 2019. Review by Mark Lewandowski) Thanksgiving week at the Village Vanguard has become to the jazz fan as much of a staple […]
Jakub Paulski Trio wins Jazz Juniors Competition, Kraków 2019
Jazz Juniors Festival and Competition (Piec Art Acoustic Jazz Club and other venues, 27-30 November 2019. Report by Mary James) The 43rd Jazz Juniors Competition 2019 Kraków was won by Jakub Paulski […]
Panorama of Nordic Jazz and Nordic Comets Showcase in Paris
Sebastian writes: The opening day of the AJC’s annual meeting “Les Rencontres AJC” on 2 December 2019 at the new Pan Piper venue in the 11th Arondissement was given over to a […]
Chryssie Hynde & Valve Bone Woe Ensemble at Royal Festival Hall (2019 EFG LJF)
Chryssie Hynde & Valve Bone Woe Ensemble (Royal Festival Hall. EFG London Jazz Festival, Sunday 24 November 2019. Review by Tomasz Furmanek) This festival concert confirmed what I had heard in June at […]
Soweto Kinch: The Black Peril at EartH (2019 EFG LJF)
Soweto Kinch: The Black Peril (EartH Hackney, EFG London Jazz Festival. 22 November 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) “Peaky Blinders meets W.E.B. Du Bois” is how Richard Coles on BBC Radio 4’s […]
Boptet and Steve Fishwick Nonet at BOPFEST (2019 EFG LJF)
Boptet and Steve Fishwick Nonet (Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Bar. 23 November 2019. BOPFEST/EFG LJF. Review by Frank Griffith) Much flying Bopster-ity and beyond was to be heard during the seven days of […]
Steve Beresford and Mandhira de Saram at Burley Fisher Books (BOTH AND exhibition)
Steve Beresford and Mandhira de Saram at BOTH AND exhibition, Burley Fisher Books, 24 November 2019. Report and drawings by Geoff Winston As part of our BOTH AND exhibition, and serendipitously coinciding […]
Led Bib at The Rio Cinema (2019 EFG LJF)
Led Bib (The Rio Cinema, 24 November 2019, EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Patrick Hadfield) A Sunday afternoon at the movies, as Led Bib premiered their latest project – providing the […]
Evan Parker at Bates Mill Blending Shed (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival)
Evan Parker at 75 (Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 24 November 2019. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This concert celebrated Evan Parker’s 75th birthday of last April and his long association […]
Jazzmeia Horn/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra at Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Jazzmeia Horn/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – The Artistry of Jazzmeia Horn (Usher Hall, Edinburgh. 24 November 2019. Review by Mark McKergow) Jazz vocalist extraordinary Jazzmeia Horn raised the roof of Edinburgh’s Usher […]
We Also Heard… mini-reviews from the 2019 EFG London Jazz Festival
Sebastian writes: LondonJazz News provides the most comprehensive coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. This year we have around 40 full length reviews. And yet… we are not covering more than […]
Lorne Lofsky Quartet with Lauren Bush (2019 EFG LJF)
Lorne Lofsky Quartet with Lauren Bush – The Chet Stream (Pizza Express Dean Street. EFG London Jazz Festival. 24 November 2019. Review by Frank Griffith) Legendary Canadian guitarist Lorne Lofsky was making his first visit to […]
Swingin’ with Strings at Cadogan Hall (2019 EFG LJF)
Swingin’ with Strings (Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival 24 November 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) This year’s London Jazz Festival may well have been the biggest and best to date. Let the […]
Bau.Haus.Klang at the Barbican; Bang/Calvert at Kings Place (2019 EFG LJF)
Bau.Haus.Klang (1st set – Michael Wollny, piano; Wolfgang Heisig, programmed piano; Émile Parisien, soprano sax; Leafcutter John, electronics; Max Stadtfeld, bass) (Barbican Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival, 24 November 2019.) Battleship Potemkin […]
