Chryssie Hynde & Valve Bone Woe Ensemble (Royal Festival Hall. EFG London Jazz Festival, Sunday 24 November 2019. Review by Tomasz Furmanek) This festival concert confirmed what I had heard in June at […]
Soweto Kinch: The Black Peril (EartH Hackney, EFG London Jazz Festival. 22 November 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) “Peaky Blinders meets W.E.B. Du Bois” is how Richard Coles on BBC Radio 4’s […]
Led Bib (The Rio Cinema, 24 November 2019, EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Patrick Hadfield) A Sunday afternoon at the movies, as Led Bib premiered their latest project – providing the […]
Sebastian writes: LondonJazz News provides the most comprehensive coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. This year we have around 40 full length reviews. And yet… we are not covering more than […]
Lorne Lofsky Quartet with Lauren Bush – The Chet Stream (Pizza Express Dean Street. EFG London Jazz Festival. 24 November 2019. Review by Frank Griffith) Legendary Canadian guitarist Lorne Lofsky was making his first visit to […]
Swingin’ with Strings (Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival 24 November 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) This year’s London Jazz Festival may well have been the biggest and best to date. Let the […]
Bau.Haus.Klang (1st set – Michael Wollny, piano; Wolfgang Heisig, programmed piano; Émile Parisien, soprano sax; Leafcutter John, electronics; Max Stadtfeld, bass) (Barbican Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival, 24 November 2019.) Battleship Potemkin […]
Vanessa Rubin featuring Danny Grissett (Pizza Pheasantry. 23 November 2019. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Alison Bentley) “Every night, I stand up here on the shoulders of every singer that has […]
Jazz Generation: Matthew Barley, Omar Puente, Peter Edwards, BBC Concert Orchestra, Nu Civilisation Orchestra, StringTing. Conducted by Michael Seal and Edwards. Music by Misha Mullov-Abbado, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Bramwell Tovey (Queen Elizabeth Hall, […]
Ingrid and Christine Jensen with the Whirlwind Recordings Jazz Orchestra (Purcell Room, EFG London Jazz Festival, Saturday 23 November. Review by Mike Collins) A delicate sequence of chords seemed to seep from […]
Moutin Factory Quintet (Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, EFG London Jazz Festival, Saturday 23 November. Review by Peter Slavid) François and Louis Moutin are twins who individually have had a strong […]
Marius Neset & The London Sinfonietta cond. Geoffrey Paterson w/Ivo Neame (pno); Jim Hart (perc); Petter Eldh (bass); Anton Eger (drums) (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre , EFG London Jazz Festival, 21 […]
Art Ensemble of Chicago (Barbican, EFG London Jazz Festival, 23 November 2019. Review by Jon Turney; Drawings by Geoff Winston) Anyone who has heard the Art Ensemble of Chicago live during their […]
Get the Blessing (MOTH Club, Hackney, London Jazz Festival, Saturday 23 November. Review by Rob Mallows) Hackney on a dark, wintry London night. There’s anywhere else I’d rather be. But during the […]
Blue Brass featuring David Murray (The Vortex, EFG London Jazz Festival, 22 November 2019 [early show]. Review by Patrick Hadfield) There was a palpable sense of expectation ahead of this gig. David […]
