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“Help us Buy Some Time”. Peggy’s Skylight (Nottingham) sets up campaign to postpone sale of premises by City Council.

By londonjazz on 9 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Paul Deats and Rachel Foster of Peggy’s Skylight have dis covered that Nottingham City Council is planning to sell the Peggy’s Skylight building at auction on 23 February 2023, despite the fact […]

Electric Lady Big Band at Ronnie Scott’s

By londonjazz on 9 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )
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Denny Ilett’s Electric Lady Big Band play Jimi Hendrix(Ronnie Scott’s, 6-7 January 2023. Review by Lavender Sutton) Jimi Hendrix always expressed an interest in writing music for a big band but sadly […]

Chris Biscoe – ‘Music Is: Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook’

By leahsiennaljn on 9 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )
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Chris Biscoe – Music Is: Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook (Trio Records tr607. Album review by Jane Mann) This new release is the first that I have come across devoted entirely to […]

Claire Martin & Callum Au: Songs and Stories (Cadogan Hall, 20 Jan 2023)

By leahsiennaljn on 9 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

This unique collaboration between Britain’s star jazz vocalist Claire Martin and Callum Au’s 50-piece orchestra and big band was originally set for its Cadogan Hall debut in June 2020. Their Songs and […]

Mothers In Jazz (24): Leonor Falcón

By londonjazz on 9 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

“Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry […]

World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, SW11. (First season at new concert venue opens 20 Jan.)

By londonjazz on 6 January 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Saxophonist Tony Kofi’s award-winning Thelonious Monk tribute quartet, pianists Julian Joseph OBE and Zoe Rahman, Jazz FM Breakthrough Act, drummer Jas Kayser and internationally revered Danish bassist Jasper Høiby…are among the musicians set […]

Jussi Reijonen, ‘Three Seconds/ Kolme Toista’

By londonjazz on 5 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Jussi Reijonen, Three Seconds/ Kolme Toista (Challenge Records CR 73545. Album review by Rachel Coombes) Resistant to categorisation, Jussi Reijonen’s compositions merge together such a wide range of musical styles and ‘languages’ […]

Aga Derlak (Rebel Spirits podcast series from Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland)

By londonjazz on 3 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Aga Derlak, one of the talented mavericks in the podcast series Rebel Spirits, which offers an insight into the innovative and progressive talents to emerge in Polish jazz over the past twenty […]

Paul Clarvis, Liam Noble, Cathy Jordan – ‘Freight Train’

By londonjazz on 3 January 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

Paul Clarvis, Liam Noble, Cathy Jordan – Freight Train (Village Life. 1411222. Album review by Jon Turney) Here’s an unexpected trio producing delightful results. Singer Cathy Jordan is a leading light on […]

Esbjörn Svensson (solo piano, rec. 2008) – ‘HOME.S’

By londonjazz on 3 January 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Esbjörn Svensson – HOME.S (ACT. ACT9053-2. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) HOME.S is Esbjörn Svensson‘s only solo album, released in November more than fourteen years after his untimely death. Svensson’s wife Eva […]

Dick Oatts Ensemble at Pizza Express Dean Street, 20/21 Jan. (Album launch gigs for ‘Reunion’ with Gareth Lockrane on Blau Records)

By londonjazz on 2 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Legendary alto saxophonist Dick Oatts is returning to London this month for two nights at Pizza Express Dean Street. The first of the nights is on the date of the album release […]

Mothers In Jazz (23): Rosana Eckert

By londonjazz on 2 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Mothers In Jazz: Rosana Eckert “Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those […]

RIP Ayşe Gencer (1956-2022)

By londonjazz on 30 December 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Francesco Martinelli writes: One of the most loved voices of Turkish jazz, vocalist Ayşe Gencer, daughter of pianist and bandleader İlham Gencer and and singer Ayten Alpman, passed away at the age […]

Mothers In Jazz (22): Gemma Farrell

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

Mothers In Jazz” is a series started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry figures […]

Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 10 (‘Home Town Skiffle’)

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

Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 10: Home Town Skiffle (Saydisc /Matchbox MSESET10 – 6 CDs. Album review by Chris Parker) Another set of recordings from Saydisc (Matchbox), featuring blues, rags, the odd […]

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