Ant Law Quintet – Life I Know (Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College. Cambridge Jazz Festival. 18 November 2019. Review by John Arnett) The small but very characterful theatre setting, in one of […]
Lars Danielsson Quartet – Liberetto III (Wigmore Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival, 19 November 2019. Review by Rob Mallows) The audience at Wigmore Hall sits in front of a huge cupola above […]
SEED Ensemble (Storey’s Field Centre. Cambridge International Jazz Festival. 17 November 2019. Review by John Arnett) The SEED Ensemble delivered a triumphant conclusion to Sunday’s festival programme in the pristine concert hall […]
Kitty Whitelaw sings Anita O’Day (Bull’s Head, Barnes. EFG London Jazz Festival. 18 November 2019. Review by Peter Jones) Better known in some circles as the vocal half of avant-garde duo Sealionwoman, Kitty […]
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah (EartH, Hackney Arts Centre. EFG London Jazz Festival, Saturday 16 November. Review by Alison Bentley) “The sound doesn’t lie,” said US trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah in a recent interview. […]
Julian Sartorius & Dan Nicholls + Y-Otis (Dalston SET, EFG London Jazz Festival, Monday 18 November. Review by Peter Slavid) The Dalston SET is a rather chaotic, pleasantly seedy small box of […]
Jan Garbarek Group (Royal Festival Hall. 17 November 2019. EFG London Festival. Review by Mike Collins) Trading fours sounds different in a Jan Garbarek set. An hour and half into their gig […]
Cécile McLorin Salvant & Sullivan Fortner Andrew McCormack & Jason Yarde Duo (Barbican Hall. EFG London Jazz Festival.16 November 2019. Review by Richard Lee) My start to the EFG London Jazz Festival […]
Trio Tapestry/Elina Duni and Rob Luft (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 17 November 2019. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Chris Parker) As a way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of […]
Crosscurrents Trio (Cadogan Hall 17 November 2019. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Jon Turney) By the time they finished their limpidly beautiful encore, Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain and Chris Potter’s 90-minute […]
Steve Williamson Experience (Pizza Express Jazz Club. 2019 EFG London Jazz Festival. 15 November 2019. 7pm set. Review by Alison Bentley) “They’re greater than we were.” British saxophonist and composer Steve Williamson, […]
Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science Community; Experiments in London (Kings Place, EFG London Jazz Festival, 16 November 2019. Review by Leah Williams.) Legendary drummer, composer and producer Terri Lyne Carrington is this […]
J to Z Late: Live… (RIBA, EFG London Jazz Festival, Saturday 16 November 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Accessibility is a big theme in the London Jazz Festival. A music that can […]
Tal Wilkenfeld (Ronnie Scott’s, London Jazz Festival, Saturday 16 November. Review by Rob Mallows) It had been, Tal Wilkenfeld told the audience at a rammed Ronnie Scott’s, 12 years since she’d last […]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio/Fred Thomas (Cadogan Hall, London jazz Festival , Friday November 15. Review by Mike Collins) The light hiss of brush on snare; a single note from the piano suspended in […]
