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Georgia Cécile (album showcase at Ronnie Scott’s 14 Feb + touring with SNJO 23-26 Feb)

By londonjazz on 26 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Double Jazz FM Award-winning vocalist Georgia Cécile launches two new projects in February, writes Rob Adams Glasgow-born Georgia Cécile, who won UK Jazz Act of the Year and Vocalist of the Year at the […]

‘Oscar Peterson – Black + White’

By londonjazz on 26 January 2023 • ( 4 Comments )

Oscar Peterson – Black + White (Film by Barry Avrich. DVD details below. Film review by Liam Noble) It’s the 1970s and, looking straight at the camera, Michael Parkinson proclaims: “My first […]

Watford Jazz Junction, 18-21 May 2023

By leahsiennaljn on 24 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Watford Jazz Junction was new to the jazz festival scene last year and this second edition has a particular focus on the influence of the Caribbean on UK jazz. We take a […]

Rich Perry – ‘Everything Happens’

By londonjazz on 23 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )
Everything Happens album cover, blue brick wall with writing on top

Rich Perry – Everything Happens (Steeplechase, SCCD 31937. Album review by Frank Griffith) Veteran NYC saxophonist Rich Perry‘s 2022 CD Everything Happens showcases equally his talents and abilities as composer and player. […]

Mothers In Jazz (26): Elin Forkelid

By londonjazz on 23 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 […]

Beats & Pieces Big Band – ‘Good Days’  

By londonjazz on 22 January 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Beats & pieces Big Band – Good Days   (Efpi Records. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Beats & Pieces may call themselves a big band rather than a jazz orchestra, but their music […]

Tim Garland and Jason Rebello ‘Life to Life’ London Launch at St Martin-in-the-Fields

By londonjazz on 22 January 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

Tim Garland and Jason Rebello ‘Life to Life’ London Launch (St Martin-in-the-Fields. 21 January 2023. Review by Sebastian Scotney) We the audience – Tim Garland explained – would be hearing a trio […]

Tessa Souter at The Pheasantry

By londonjazz on 22 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Tessa Souter with Jim Watson, Conor Chaplin and Billy Drummond (Pizza Pheasantry. 20 January 2023. First night of two. Review by Lavender Sutton) Vocalist Tessa Souter has made her way back over […]

Brad Mehldau – ‘Formation – Building a Personal Canon, Part One’

By londonjazz on 21 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Brad Mehldau – Formation – Building a Personal Canon, Part One (Equinox Books. 300pp. Publication date 14 March 2023. Book review by Scott Flanigan) One might imagine that pianist Brad Mehldau, one […]

Iain Ballamy and Martin France at Frank and Mark’s, Iffley, Oxford (opening gig)

By londonjazz on 21 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Iain Ballamy & Martin France with Frank Harrison & Mark Hodgson (Iffley Church Hall, Oxford. Frank and Mark’s opening gig. 18 January 2023. Live review by Alison Bentley) It was the first […]

Alice Zawadzki ‘Yiddish glory: Jewish refugees in Central Asia’ (BBC Radio) plus ‘Bag of Bones’ (premiere tour w/ Manchester Collective 2-11 Feb.)

By londonjazz on 20 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Two projects, both with Alice Zawadzki in a leading role, come to fruition in the next few days: Alice Zawadzki explains the background to Yiddish glory: Jewish refugees in Central Asia (*) […]

New team to run jazz programming at Lauderdale House in Highgate, starting in May

By londonjazz on 19 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Blow the Fuse (Deirdre Cartwright and Alison Rayner) will be taking over the jazz programming at Lauderdale House, it is announced today. FULL STATEMENT FROM LAUDERDALE HOUSE: (Text begins) We are delighted […]

Bruce Lindsay – ‘Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room’

By londonjazz on 19 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Bruce Lindsay – Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room (Equinox Books. 254 pp. £25. Book Review by Rob Adams) Ivor Cutler was a singular talent. He was an author, poet, […]

Winter Jazzfest 2023 / Brooklyn Marathon night

By londonjazz on 18 January 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Brooklyn Marathon Night at Winter Jazzfest 2023 (Various venues in NYC. Review by Dan Bergsagel) In many aspects of our lives, the pandemic can look like a diminishing dot in the rear-view […]

Brussels Jazz Festival 2023 (Part 2)

By londonjazz on 18 January 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Brussels Jazz Festival 2023 (Flagey, Brussels. Sunday 15 January 2023. Festival report by Jon Turney) This is the second of two reports from Brussels by Jon Turney* The final sessions of this […]

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