London Jazz News

Where should one go to hear jazz tomorrow, Valentine’s day?Apart from the Vortex, it definitely seems to be singers’ night…I had singled out the Claire Martin/ Richard Rodney Bennett gig at the […]

Stan Sulzmann (Photo: Gary Corbett)The gig is on March 17th at the Guildhall School of Music next to the Barbican Centre. Admission is free. It features Gwilym Simcock and Stan Sulzmann working […]

King Prawn Dhansak (In The Dark)The alto player next to me in the rehearsal band and and I watch the world – and forests of seemingly unplayable semiquavers- go by, and we […]

Cy LauriePeter Maguire of Jazz Clubs Worldwide in Brussels now has a blog where he is getting all dewy-eyed nostalgic for an era when British jazz was supposedly fuelled by “nothing more […]

Ingrid Laubrock. whose quartet gig tonight at “The Others” is on the Late Arrivals board at http://www.jazzinlondon.net/A Tall StoryLucky people arriving on Eurostar into London ……….to spend our bombed-out currency in our […]

Jazz in Bruges : Under ThreatThere is a new Petition to save De Werf in Bruges/ Belgium ,an important club on the circuit. The Bruges Jazz Festival which has featured eg Soweto […]

Bobo StensonIn the trio context you know what to expect from Bobo Stenson. That right hand, crystalline, bright, dominating. It leads, it takes responsibility for the line, the narrative. Stenson sets up […]

In the shadow of Benny Goodman: Bob Wilber will be leading the New YorkBenny Goodman centenary tributes in May with the Lincoln Center Jazz OrchestraOne of the first pieces I wrote for […]

LIAM NOBLE- Album launch at the Vortex this WednesdayThree blogs I’ve been reading:Oliver Weindling has also caught the bug of drawing attention to out-of-the-way gigs in London HEREI have added Liam Noble’s […]

The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, among the winners at this year’s Grammys. Best Contemporary Jazz AlbumRandy In Brasil :Randy Brecker[MAMA Records]Other nominees: John McLaughlin, “Cannon Re-Loaded”- all-star Adderley celebration, “Miles from India”, YellowjacketsBest […]

Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac inLes Demoiselles de RochefortI have an unashamed soft spot for the film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort from 1967 featuring Catherine Deneuve and her elder sister Francoise Dorleac […]

This site, LondonJazz, has just clocked up its 2000th visitor. If you have become a regular reader, thank you. It took just under three weeks to clock up the first 1000, and […]

Maria SchneiderLaura Barnett wrote a feature in yesterday’s Guardian about women in jazz. Thank you Oliver for pointing it out to me on the phone. Good piece.The whole thoughtful article is here […]

John Etheridge (Photo/Paul Darkwood)It’s a real challenge.How does one cut down a John Etheridge biography ?Simple you say. You edit it . You need to be totally merciless. Too many words are […]

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