Herbie Hancock(Barbican Hall. 28 July 2023. First night of two. Review by Lavender Sutton) “Let’s get this right. You are going to ‘review’ Herbie Hancock?” The look of bamboozlement on a musician’s […]
Herbie Hancock at the Barbican
Abdullah Ibrahim Trio at the Barbican
Abdullah Ibrahim Trio (Barbican, EFG London Jazz Festival Summer Series. 15 July 2023. Review by John Stevenson) Whenever celebrated South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim performs in London, he is received rapturously […]
Branford Marsalis at the Barbican
Branford Marsalis – with Joey Calderazzo, Eric Revis, Justin Faulkner (Barbican Hall. 12 July 2023. Live review by John Stevenson) Branford Marsalis is a man of multiple talents – an award-winning saxophonist […]
SFJAZZ Collective at Barbican Hall
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 […]
Avishai Cohen + Nikki Yeoh’s Café Oran (EFG LJF 2021)
Avishai Cohen + Nikki Yeoh’s Café Oran (Barbican. 16 November 2021. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Izzy Blankfield) Nikki Yeoh opened one of the most anticipated nights of the 2021 London […]
Marcel Khalifé and Bachar Mar-Khalifé – ‘Mahmoud, Marcel and I’ (EFG LJF 2021)
Marcel Khalifé and Bachar Mar-Khalifé – Mahmoud, Marcel and I (Barbican Centre, 15 November 2021. EFG London Jazz Festival. Live Review by Rachel Coombes) “Marcel went to Australia for a few days […]
Moses Boyd at the Barbican Centre
Moses Boyd (Livestream from the Barbican, Sunday 18 April. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Moses Boyd presented a set of material from his Mercury Prize nominated album Dark Matter with an augmented version […]
SEED Ensemble and Guests: ‘Celebrating The Music of Pharoah Sanders’ (2020 EFG LJF)
SEED Ensemble and Guests: Celebrating The Music of Pharoah Sanders (Barbican. 14 November 2020. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review from livestream by Tony Dudley-Evans) ‘Beauty’ and ‘simplicity’ were the two features that […]
Bau.Haus.Klang at the Barbican; Bang/Calvert at Kings Place (2019 EFG LJF)
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 […]
Art Ensemble of Chicago at the Barbican (2019 EFG LJF)
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 […]
Cécile McLorin Salvant / McCormack-Yarde Duo (2019 EFG LJF)
Cécile McLorin Salvant & Sullivan Fortner Andrew McCormack & Jason Yarde Duo (Barbican Hall. EFG London Jazz Festival.16 November 2019. Review by Richard Lee) My start to the EFG London Jazz Festival […]
Nik Bärtsch and Sophie Clements (2019 EFG LJF)
Nik Bärtsch & Sophie Clements (Barbican. EFG London Jazz Festival. 15 November 2019. Review by Leah Williams.) Marooned on an island made for one man and his piano, Nik Bärtsch sat surrounded […]
Reich/Richter and Moor Mother’s The Great Bailout at the Barbican
Reich/Richter and Moor Mother’s The Great Bailout (Barbican complex, 23 October 2019. Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) This was a very busy evening at the Barbican with two must-see concerts of […]
