Ian Shaw will be hosting and compèring a charity night at the 606 Club in Chelsea on Sunday 1 December in aid of Side By Side Refugees. Laura Thorne asked him to […]
Ian Shaw (Side By Side Refugees Charity Night at the 606 Club, 1 December)
ECM at 50 events (EFG London Jazz Festival 15 & 17 Nov)
Peter Bacon reports: The ongoing celebrations that surround ECM Records’ 50th birthday, will, we are reliably informed, continue well into 2020, but are represented In London this month with concerts by ECM […]
Five things not to miss at the 2019 Cambridge Jazz Festival
Cambridge area resident Matt Pannell tells us his picks from this year’s Cambridge Jazz Festival programme (13-24 November): It is said that in November, you’re never more than one microphone cable’s length from […]
Swingin’ with Strings – Jazz Repertory Company (Cadogan Hall, 24 Nov)
The Jazz Repertory Company’s latest project in recreating memorable moments from jazz history has strings attached. Peter Vacher explains: Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory Company has long since made London’s Cadogan Hall its […]
SNJO and Simcock headline Middlesbrough Sunday Jazz Weekender (27 Oct)
Peter Bacon reports: The Sunday Jazz Weekender is back and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra featuring Brian Kellock, Gwilym Simcock, plus duos of SNJO head honcho Tommy Smith and Kellock, and Zoe Gilby […]
Stan Sulzmann Organ Quartet album launch at the 606
Peter Bacon reports: British saxophonist Stan Sulzmann – surely one of the most admired and certainly one of the most loved jazz musicians in the UK – has a new album coming out […]
Guy Barker (Big Band Christmas, Royal Albert Hall, 19 Dec)
Guy Barker’s annual big band Christmas spectacular has become a fixture in the jazz calendar. This year’s, the fourth, features vocalists Grammy-winner Kurt Elling and Quincy Jones collaborator Vula Malinga, clarinettist Giacomo […]
BopFest (Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Bar, 18 – 24 Nov)
The latest edition of the exciting, musician-led Kennington mini-fest, which includes tributes to two jazz greats, features some top international players. Martin Chilton previews the festival for LondonJazz News: The now annual […]
Cambridge International Jazz Festival (13 – 24 November)
With over 70 events spanning early and modern, soul, funk, blues, gypsy, electronic, and rock-influenced sounds, the fifth Cambridge International Jazz Festival celebrates jazz in all its diversity. Rachel Coombes previews the […]
Sounds of Denmark 2019 (Pizza Express Jazz Club, 16 – 19 Oct)
The Sounds of Denmark Festival at Pizza Express later this month will offer a fresh insight into the state of jazz in a country with a fine tradition of the music. Martin […]
Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller at Carnegie Hall 1939 – The Battle of the Big Bands
The latest of the Jazz Repertory Company’s Cadogan Hall recreations of defining moments in jazz brings an historic big band battle back to life. Pete Long explained its significance to Peter Vacher: […]
Art Themen (Herts Jazz Festival, 28 and 29 September 2019)
Saxophonist Art Themen, who has been Patron of Herts Jazz since 2014 following the passing of Stan Tracey, will be appearing in two very different contexts at this year’s Herts Jazz Festival. […]
London East Jazz Festival (Leytonstone, 5 Oct)
There’s a new jazz festival in town and it’s bringing exciting, diverse acts from across the UK to Leytonstone. There will be a full day of both free and ticketed music taking […]
Georgia Mancio’s third Hang (Pizza Express, 9 – 11 Oct)
Vocalist and songwriter Georgia Mancio hosts her 2019 Hang at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho on 9 – 11 October. She spoke to John Fordham about collaboration, heritage, lyrics, multiple realities […]
Olie Brice – Somersaults trio (new album 10 Sept, UK tour 2 – 18 Oct)
Bassist Olie Brice has a trio, Somersaults, with saxophonist Tobias Delius and drummer Mark Sanders. They are about to release a second album together on 10 September, and have a launch tour […]
