London Jazz News

Photo from Kate Walters’ Trouble Tune presentation in the RFH Clore Ballroom as part of the London Jazz Festival. Photo credit: mapsadaisical. There are several other photos too.

Here is a London Jazz Festival round-up, just posted on my Telegraph blog After ten days and more than 250 gigs across London, The London Jazz Festival is over for another year. […]

Review: Madeleine Peyroux(Royal Festival Hall, London Jazz Festival, November 20th 2009, review by Zena James)It was more folk/blues/country than jazz, and it lacked high-energy ‘fifth gear’ moments, but Madeleine Peyroux’s laid-back set […]

Review: Gilberto Gil(Royal Festival Hall, London Jazz Festival, November 19th 2009, review by Rod Fogg)There is no equivalent to Gilberto Gil in the English speaking world. If you could find someone who […]

Review: Marcus Roberts Trio: Marcus Roberts – piano;Rodney Jordan – double bass;Jason Marsalis – drums(Wigmore Hall, London Jazz Festival, November 16th 2009, Review by Kate Williams)The Marcus Roberts Trio played entirely acoustically […]

Review: Stan Sulzmann QuartetThe Green Man, London Jazz Festival, November 20th 2009, review by Patrick Hadfield)After four nights going to gigs in the Queen Elizabeth Hall – a concert venue if ever […]

Here is a pdf of December Downbeat. Complete with this year’s poll-winners. It’s a big file (which came through to me via Twitter and Facebook) and takes time to load.The poll winners […]

It wasn’t very Islington. You could sense a deep intake of breath as a smart Friday-night Kings Place full house caught its first sight of Antonello Salis (photo credit : Fabio Presutti). […]

Giulia y Los Tellarini plus the Bright-Size Gypsies(Purcell Room, London Jazz Festival, November 19th 2009, review of the Bright-Size Gypsies by Rob Mallows)Simon Harris and The Bright Size Gypsies (photo above in […]

A Led Bib set list. Ink on toilet paper, 2009.*Possibly – for whoever owns it- a collector’s item already. Because, as Music Week reported yesterdayMercury Prize nominees Led Bib are joining Faber […]

Review : London Jazz Collective(London Jazz Festival, Spice of Life, November 15th 2009, Review by Luke Pinkstone)If I’d been looking for a gig to pace myself gently into the London Jazz Festival, […]

Review: Sheila Jordan 81st birthday gig(Bull’s Head, London Jazz Festival, November 18th 2009, review by Georgia Mancio)“It’s quite something to stand up and convey a song. It looks easy…,” mused a member […]

An opinion piece from Peter Slavid, who asks critics to be more critical, and to stop giving out five stars to everything:I’m getting a bit fed up with reading all the superlative […]

Review:John Surman(Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Jazz Festival, November 18th 2009, review by Patrick Hadfield)The celebration of John Surman ’s 65 years was a gig of two halves. Surman played support to his […]

Gwilym Simcock is busy….He will be giving the London premiere of his choral commission “I Prefer the Gorgeous Freedom” this Saturday 21st in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 2pm. It had a […]