News, reviews, features and comment from the London jazz scene and beyond

Long-term Bexley resident, versatile saxophonist Derek Nash (above) has been in touch with LondonJazz. Nash has run into problems with an album launch from his local council in Bexley. Nash writes: I […]

Monday 30th March, Pizza Express, Dean Street “This is a great place to play,” said Joel Frahm. How good it was to hear that from a first-time visitor, more used to the […]

I can’t help feeling that word about the quality and the vibe of Carlos Lopez Real’s E17 jazz is going to get out soon, that it will suddenly find itself overrrun. I […]

Today’s reviews – tomorrow’s fish and chip wrapping? A man, or maybe just a combination of bad carbs and bad karma called Burger from Salt Lake City reviews the latest CD from […]

Kit Downes, one of the busiest/most versatile/interesting young pianists/keyboardists in town, has taken the trouble to write about a forthcoming Pizza Express gig. The date, June 22nd, a New Moon (!) is […]

APRIL 26th UPDATE: Go to the news story with all the conformed artists HERE The Observer,as media sponsor to the sixteenth edition South Bank’s Meltdown Festival announces today Sunday 28th March in […]

Work going into the production of a Steinway (Photo: Jessica Duchen) Pizza Express, Thursday March 27th. The secret, how good Nikki Iles’ piano playing really is, will get out before too long. […]

I have just discovered Meetup, thanks to lobbyist and communications whizz Rob Mallows. Rob has set up Londons Premier Jazz Meetup group with over 450 members and his group is growing. I […]

EMI are in the final stages of moving out from the building (in the picture above) across the road from me. LondonJazz goes into lamentation mode…. There are no longer any taxis […]

“Are you a Londoner now?” , I asked Cricklewood resident Gilad Atzmon. He paused for thought. And for a very brief moment, I imagined I had achieved the impossible and caught him […]

The greats of the tenor saxophone inhabit the very walls of London’s premier jazz venue. A picture of the late Ronnie Scott himself looks down from above the bandstand, occupying the “0” […]

To the victor, the spoils. Or in Latin: victori spolia….* I have heard Zem Audu play twice now. And he’s winning me over a bit more, set by set. The first time […]

My thanks to omniscient Simon Purcell for pointing out the following site with some great resources for musicians to download It’s called CASA VALDEZ STUDIOS. It does indeed look like a treasure […]

The Sunday Times has taken up the story of the disappearing BBC Awards. The journalist asks an interesting, not to say pointed rhetorical question: “When will the BBC’s radio controllers accept that […]

Gareth Lockrane The endings of Gareth Lockrane’s big band charts often build into moments of total fulfilment and completeness. It’s something you have to hear, and much harder to put it into […]