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Oded Tzur – ‘Isabela’

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

Oded Tzur – Isabela (ECM Records – ECM 2739. CD Review by Graham Spry) From the very first notes of the opening track on saxophonist Oded Tzur’s latest album Isabela, there is […]

Monheim Triennale 2022 (Germany)

By londonjazz on 30 June 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

Monheim Triennale (Monheim-am-Rhein. 22-26 June 2022. Festival Round-Up by Tony Dudley-Evans) The Monheim Triennale is a festival in Monheim-am-Rhein, an attractive small town by the Rhine, roughly half-way between Cologne and Düsseldorf.  […]

10 Tracks By Henry Threadgill I Can’t Do Without…by Liam Noble

By londonjazz on 30 June 2022 • ( 6 Comments )

In the latest of LJN’s series where musicians consider idols, or formative influences, Liam Noble writes about composer and multi-reedist Henry Threadgill, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016 and an NEA […]

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival ’22 Online Festival Pass launched.

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

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival has a special offer: a digital pass offering online access to twenty of the concerts during the festival. The full list of the concerts available via the […]

42nd Montreal International Jazz Festival (30 Jun- 9 July 20220

By londonjazz on 28 June 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

The biggest (*) jazz festival in the world is back. The 42nd Montreal International Jazz Festival starts this Thursday 30 June. It has a very special atmosphere where crowds flock to the […]

Jemma Freese – ‘Shadowboxing’

By londonjazz on 27 June 2022 • ( Leave a comment )
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Jemma Freese – Shadowboxing (Available from Bandcamp – link below. Album review by AJ Dehany) Whether thrashing a keyboard with indie art-rockers Maxïmo Park, hammering avant-hard jazzpunk soundscapes with trio J Frisco, […]

Jerry & The Pelican System, ‘Sariani’ (Jazz Café POSK, 2 July)

By ljazzn on 27 June 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Jerry & The Pelican System aka Jerzy Mączyński, a young Polish jazz and experimental saxophonist and composer, will present music from his latest release “Sariani”, combining electronic ambient textures with a deeply […]

Emma Smith – ‘Meshuga Baby’

By londonjazz on 27 June 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Emma Smith – Meshuga Baby(Wingsor Castle Records. Album review by Leonard Weinreich) Call me a pedant, but shouldn’t this album title read ‘Meshuga Bubbele’? For non-Yiddish speakers, the expression ‘meshuga’ has multiple […]

Gwilym Simcock – ‘2022 Version’ of The Impossible Gentlemen to play at Buxton (9 Jul) and Ambleside (3 Sep)

By londonjazz on 27 June 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The Jazz Weekend of the Buxton International Festival 2022 will present something of a coup, the first appearance since 2015 of The Impossible Gentlemen, in what is described as a “2022 version” […]

Sarah Chaplin (jazzlondonlive.com) Interviewed for her 200th Radio Show

By londonjazz on 27 June 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Sarah Chaplin, who runs the jazzlondonlive.com listings website, which since 2017 has been the online successor to Jazz in London, also does a weekly jazz radio show for Brooklands Radio (DAB and […]

SFJAZZ Collective at Barbican Hall

By Charles Rees on 27 June 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Chris Potter, Martin Luther McCoy, Gretchen Parlato, Etienne Charles, David Sanchez, Edward Simon, Warren Wolf, Matt Brewer & Kendrick Scott (Barbican, 25 June 2022. Live review by Charles Rees) In celebration of […]

London Contemporary Music Festival 2022 Closing Concert

By londonjazz on 26 June 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) ‘Hysterical and Happy’ Concert (Woolwich Works, 19 June 2022; review and drawings by Geoff Winston) The final date of LCMF 2022 included three standout solo performances – […]

Ricky Ford – ‘The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford: Paul’s Scene’

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

Ricky Ford – The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford: Paul’s Scene (Whaling City Sound. Album Review by Adam Sieff) The great tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford (b.1954) as made a hugely enjoyable album […]

Bill Ortiz – ‘Points of View’

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

Bill Ortiz – Points of View (Left Angle Records. Album review by Bruce Lindsay) Trumpeter Bill Ortiz spent sixteen years as a member of Santana. The job may not have made him […]

Grassroots Jazz: Registered Charity/ website launched/ £13,000 raised. With update 24 June

By londonjazz on 24 June 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

The momentum behind Nigel Price’s campaign to bring support to grassroots jazz promoters has been picking up momentum in a matter of just a few weeks: Grassroots Jazz is now a registered […]

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