London Jazz News

A couple of years ago Alyn Shipton wrote this about a concert by Acoustic Triangle, at St Cyprian’s:“The church has become the setting for a series of adventurous jazz concerts ……most of […]

Extraordinary. The word jazz reaches out into areas with absolutely nothing to do with the music. In this case the expression “jazz hands.”My regular Google news search this morning finds a newspaper […]

This has been sent in by the ever-innovative Andy Williamson. It’s directed at musicians , who should contact Andy. His email is at the bottom of this post. A new venture in […]

I was pleased to catch a set from Sarah Ellen Hughes and the Barry Green trio at the Spice of Life last night, followed by the pick n’ mix third set involving […]

LondonJazz reader Tony Dudley-Evans has posted a very thoughtful comment. Tony discusses the sly assertion by an Independent journalist that Radiohead had alienated the teenagers at Reading by “playing jazz”. (Here’s the […]

Evan Parker QuartetVortex, August 27th 2009Review by Adam TaitSerendipity. It’s a funny old thing, and at times convenient too. Funny- when you’re sitting at the back of the 149 bus on your […]

A copy of Jacqui Dankworth’s new album Back to You (Audacious) landed with me prior to its release next Monday September 7th, and leads me to put these forthcoming gigs at the […]

Curious one this. Nick Hasted of the Independent writes about the Reading Festival:“Radiohead’s modern jazz wrong-foots the crowd: […]it was left to last night’s closing act Radiohead to wrong-foot everyone. [..] The […]

Just name-check this super-band, from an announcement which has just appeared. It’s New York’s (and once upon a time Norwich’s) finest, Elliot Mason, of the Mason Brothers (above) writing on his Twitter“Brad […]

It is with very great pleasure that we welcome young writer Luke Pinkstone to LondonJazz. Here’s his review of an evening complete with a fitting eulogy from one great Jamaican, Monty Alexander, […]

UPDATE FRIDAY 28th. Quite a few comments continuing to come in the site about Nate Chnen’s piece in the New York Times about young audiences (FOLLOW THIS LINK)There are reviews in the […]

Review: John Williams and John Etheridge. (Pizza Express, Tuesday August 25th 2009)Here’s how it begins: two men (pictured above) step onstage in the half-light. They listen intently as they tune their acoustic […]

LondonJazz’s Mystery shopper, ever the good time girl, has been out and about in Chelsea:The Mike Westbrook band blew a rousing couple of sets performing his “Off Abbey Road” at the 606 […]

I’ve just been speaking to a record producer.His label has produced over 600 CDs. At least 15 of them are by the iconic Russian now-disbanded Ganelin Trio. More than thirty are by […]

I’m recommending the three night Ronnie Scott’s Kind of Blue/Giant Steps nights next week. But here’s something different. An interesting marketing initiative from Abram Wilson and Dune Music: volunteers for his Official […]