Swansong – Do Swans Fly? (Hunnia Records. Album review by Fiona Mactaggart) Swansong is an international jazz trio, formed in Berlin in 2010 by Hungarian pianist Gábor Csordás and Berklee-educated, Japanese electric […]
Swansong – ‘Do Swans Fly?’
Mothers in Jazz (18): Jenna Cave
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 […]
Bendik Giske at King’s Place Hall Two (2022 EFG LJF)
Bendik Giske (King’s Place Hall Two. 19 November 2022. Review by AJ Dehany) Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske’s performances are shamanic studies of physicality, vulnerability and endurance, made with just the body, breath, […]
“Morden You Know” – Jazz Standards within the M25…
Sebastian writes: It’s London…it’s jazz…so I guess it concerns us here at LJN… so we’re posting about it… Our good friend Nigel Price opened up a particular floodgate on Facebook (over 700 […]
Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra play Mike Gibbs at the Vortex (2022 EFG LJF)
Mike Gibbs’ 85th Birthday Celebration – Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Josephine Davies (Vortex, EFG London Jazz Festival, 14 November 2022. Second house. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) In four concerts […]
‘Inside Scofield’ (film by Joerg Steineck)
Inside Scofield (Joerg Steineck / Director. Film 87 mins (145 min with DVD extras). Film review by Denny Ilett) Less of a traditional biography and more of a slice-of-life portrait of a […]
Led Bib and Anthropods at the Vortex (2022 EFG LJF)
Led Bib and Anthropods at the Vortex The true finale to the 2022 London Jazz Festival was an evening of completely new music from the mind of New Jersey-born drummer, composer and […]
Heard in brief – mini-reviews and photos from 2022 EFG LJF
LJN provides the most extensive review coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. By far. This year we will have done over thirty of them. We have also asked our writers and […]
Wynton Marsalis to headline Buxton Festival Jazz Weekender (6 -10 July 2023)
Buxton International Festival has just announced: “Buxton International Festival will present Wynton Marsalis in, for him what is, the most intimate of settings, the turn of the century Opera House. To close […]
Dhafer Youssef plus Zoe Rahman Trio (2022 EFG LJF)
Dhafer Youssef with Ballaké Sissoko, Eivind Aarset and Adriano Dos Santos: Digital Africa – plus Zoe Rahman Trio (Barbican Hall, 19 November 2022. Live review by Alison Bentley) It was Dhafer Youssef’s […]
The Big Swing featuring Emma Smith, Georgina Jackson & Vula Malinga at Cadogan Hall (2022 EFG LJF)
The Big Swing featuring Emma Smith, Georgina Jackson & Vula Malinga (Cadogan Hall, London SW3, 18 November 2022. Review by Len Weinreich) The evening started with a bundle of promises as singer […]
Mick Goodrick (1945-2022). A Tribute by Mark Small.
Mark Small (*) pays tribute to the massively influential guitarist and educator Mick Goodrick. On 16 November 2022, American jazz guitarist Mick Goodrick, a sought-after performer and educator who deeply impacted three […]
‘Tribute to Don Cherry’ (2022 EFG LJF)
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble plus Guests – Tribute to Don Cherry (Barbican. 20 November 2022. Live review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Don Cherry was a pioneer. After his work with Ornette Coleman in the […]
Catherine Russell at Pizza Express Soho (2022 EFG LJF)
Catherine Russell (Pizza Express Soho, 20 November 2022. Live review by Lavender Sutton) New York native Catherine Russell performed in London for the first time at Dean Street Pizza Express on the […]
‘Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band In Concert’ (rec. 1960)
‘Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band In Concert’(SteepleChase SCCD 36502. Album review by Len Weinreich) Sometime during the late 1940s, jazz hipperati first clocked Gerry Mulligan as a fledging composer and arranger slyly […]
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