London Jazz News

Subscribers to Crescendo Magazine received the sad news this morning from founder and editor Dennis H. Matthews that the 44-page Vol 46 Issue 3 dated Autumn 2009 will be the last ever. […]

Ranging widely, from Kenny Wheeler above, to the legislation on small venues, to the Collectives, I have just published a wish list for British jazz in 2010 on my Telegraph blog.

Peter BrötzmannCafé Oto- Venue Review by John Eyles(Welcoming a new writer to LondonJazz)Against the odds, Café Oto in Dalston is steadily becoming one of the capital’s leading music venues. Opened in April […]

http://www.wowjazz.org/wow02_pl.swfWayOutWest have been successfully installed and playing to good houses at the Orange Tree in Richmond since September.There’s a new website with a 5 minute video samplerThe video thankfully NOT including a […]

This is a heartening story for a winter’s day from back in June.A few quotes from First Lady Michelle Obama. Hands up, yes I didn’t pay it much attention when it came […]

The organizers of the Kenny Wheeler 80th birthday concert at the Royal Academy of Music on Thursday January 14th – the actual birthday- have confirmed to me today that Dave Holland is […]

Subscribers to LondonJazz Wednesday Headlines can enter a prize draw for Ivo Neame’s well-reviewed Caught in the Light of Day, with a stellar young quartet of Jim Hart, Jasper Hoiby and James […]

Baron Coe KBE , Chairman of the London Organizing Commitee for the Olympic Games, and I, have more than the one (obvious) thing thing in common :-We are both, evidently, afflicted with […]

(Photo credit: http://www.heymana.com/ )London has one venue where the flame of Europe’s gipsy jazz tradition burns strongly all year round. It’s in Battersea and it’s called the Quecumbar. The team in SW11 […]

I’d like to hat-tip a highly impressive piece of work: the top 50 CDs of 2009 from Peter Bacon of the Birmingham Post and the jazzbreakfast blog. Here’s the LINK

The sad news has just broken that Ronnie Scott’s club co-founder – and business manager for most of the 50 years of its existence – Pete King died yesterday. His last few […]

To get to the iTunes charts for several countries, FOLLOW THIS LINK.The lists are vocally and Gardot-Jones-Krall dominated, you’d expect that. And if nothing gets to the scale of Robbie Williams Swing […]

If lists of absolutely everything still haven’t removed your will to live, or to read lists………here’s a chronological list of the pieces you may have missed. The ten most-read pieces from our […]

Review – Cai Marle-Garcia & Hyderabad(Charlie Wright’s, December 17th 2009, review by Rob Mallows. Photo credit: Mike Stemberg)Cai Marle-Garcia is a 23-year-old self-taught player of the fretless bass. His mastery of the […]

Jazz FM has gone to the trouble of compiling a list of no fewer than THIRTY different jazz lists and are still begging for more. CDs of the year, of the decade. […]