MoonMot is made up of six musicians from the UK and Switzerland who all thrive on the energy of free improvisation and melodic deconstruction. Their music has been described by singer Elina […]
After a highly successful inaugural series of jazz concerts in 2019, Morley College has announced a new programme of five concerts to take place at the end of each month from 28 […]
The distinctive tone of UK saxophonist Martin Speake has been well-known since his work with Itchy Fingers in the 1980s. Since then, he’s recorded 23 albums, including one for ECM with Paul […]
Peter Slavid previews this year’s eighth Liverpool International Jazz Festival. It will be his first visit to the festival. He picks a double bill of Martin Archer’s Anthropology Band and Moonmot as […]
The 2020 edition of the Ideas of Noise festival finds it expanded into an eight-day extravaganza embracing different genres of left-field music, art and performance taking place across Birmingham and the West […]
LondonJazz News contributor, bassist Olie Brice is part of a new quartet and is delighted to find that his heroes are also his colleagues and friends: One of the amazing things about […]
“The Benny Goodman Orchestra’s Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert”, presented by Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory Company, is a successful show: the booking link below at the time of writing already says “Limited […]
“Relive the undercurrents of early 80s London music scene,” says the publicity material. Leah Williams found out more about an evening of film and music entitled Walls Come Tumbling Down at Rich […]
Sebastian’s regular London Column in the new issue of the German magazine JAZZTHETIK (link to German text below) looks forward to new releases by 2020 releases from two musicians with a family […]
Zbigniew Namysłowski with his quintet will perform at Jazz Cafe POSK in London on Saturday, December 7, 2019. This outstanding musician will play both some of his most famous compositions and selected […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
