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TransAtlantic Trance Map (17 Dec., line-up includes: Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Craig Taborn, Sylvie Courvoisier and Mat Manieri

By londonjazz on 3 December 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Sebastian writes: Evan Parker has written and drawn to our attention a project with a fabulous line-up based on live, internet-based interaction between a group at The Hot Tin in Faversham in […]

O’Higgins & Luft – ‘Pluto’

By londonjazz on 3 December 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

O’Higgins & Luft – Pluto (Ubuntu Music – UBU0126. CD Review by Graham Spry) In 2019, during what now seems a very different age and a long time ago before the pandemic, […]

Gaye Su Akyol – ‘Anadolu Ejderi’

By Peter Bacon on 2 December 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Gaye Su Akyol – Anadolu Ejderi(Glitterbeat Records – GBCD 137 Review by Graham Spry) Francesco Martinelli’s recent accounts on this site of the 32nd Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul showed the Turkish jazz […]

John Escreet – ‘Seismic Shift’

By londonjazz on 1 December 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

John Escreet – Seismic Shift (Whirlwind Recordings WR4793. Review by Bruce Lindsay) Pianist John Escreet was born in Doncaster, moved to New York in his early 20s and then decamped to Los […]

Jive Aces’ Not Quite Christmas (Aldwych Theatre, 12 Dec)

By Peter Bacon on 29 November 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

It’s beginning to feel Not Quite Christmas. Rob Adams slicks back his hair and turns up his collar to preview the Jive Aces’ new show, featuring a host of special guests. The […]

Mike Gibbs at 85 (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire concert, 1 Dec)

By Peter Bacon on 29 November 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire jazz department’s 85th birthday gift to one of its most esteemed Fellows, Michael Gibbs, takes the form of a special concert on Thursday 1 December at the conservatoire’s […]

Ben Crosland (New album ‘Songs of Solace and Reflection’)

By londonjazz on 28 November 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Ben Crosland has a new album, Songs of Solace and Reflection, showing his essence as “an unaffectedly lyrical composer of direct and evocative melodies that draw in the uninitiated and the jazz […]

St. Barbe – ‘Tellicherry’ single release party at Grow, Hackney

By londonjazz on 28 November 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

St. Barbe (Grow, Hackney. Tellicherry single release party 23 November 2022. Live review by Richard Lee) Already garnering attention from Dennis Chambers of the Mike Stern Band, for whom they opened at […]

Oscar Peterson Trio – ‘On a Clear Day’ (rec. 1971)

By londonjazz on 28 November 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Oscar Peterson Trio – On a Clear Day(Mack Avenue 1199. Live in Zurich, 1971. Album review by Len Weinreich) Oscar Peterson (known as OP) was a piano giant with phenomenal technique who […]

Swansong – ‘Do Swans Fly?’

By londonjazz on 28 November 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

Mothers in Jazz (18): Jenna Cave

By londonjazz on 28 November 2022 • ( 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 […]

Bendik Giske at King’s Place Hall Two (2022 EFG LJF)

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

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…

By londonjazz on 26 November 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

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)

By londonjazz on 25 November 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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)

By londonjazz on 25 November 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

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