Pigfoot (Stream premiered on 21 November 2020 from Karamel. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Leah Williams) From the opening growl of Chris Batchelor’s muted trumpet and the equally purposeful yet joyful […]
Pigfoot at Karamel (2020 EFG LJF)
Gwilym Simcock: Solo (606 Club / 2020 EFG LJF)
Gwilym Simcock: Solo (Live stream performance, presented by The 606 Club, for EFG London Jazz Festival. 19 November 2020. Review by Jon Carvell) Stuck at home in Berlin due to travel restrictions, […]
Hedvig Mollestad and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: ‘Maternity Beat’ (2020 EFG LJF)
Hedvig Mollestad and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra – Maternity Beat (UK premiere of streamed recording from Molde Jazz Festival. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Rob Mallows A descending clock on YouTube […]
Dinosaur at Kings Place (2020 EFG LJF)
Dinosaur (Livestreamed from Kings Place, EFG London Jazz Festival 15 November 2020. Review by John Bungey) As an emergency new medium, the online-only gig has yet to reach perfection. When Dinosaur ended […]
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 […]
Jazz Voice at Cadogan Hall (2020 EFG LJF)
Jazz Voice (Livestreamed from Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival 13 November 2020. Review by Leah Williams) As the EFG London Jazz Festival kicks off this year, it is navigating – as […]
Pianist Deschanel Gordon (606 Club / EFG London Jazz Festival 16 November)
Pianist Deschanel Gordon, it has just been announced, is a finalist in the 2020 BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020. He has been described by one critic (*) as “a percussive player of […]
EFG London Jazz Festival moves exclusively online (13-22 November)
The EFG London Jazz Festival extensive programme of live concerts and special events will now be streamed online from venues across London. Many of the online events will be free to view […]
Two Polish acts streaming at EFG London Jazz Festival 2020 (Błoto, 15 Nov / Jerry & The Pelican System, 22 Nov)
B Side Events will present two young acts from Poland as part of EFG London Jazz Festival 2020: On Sunday 15 November Błoto, a unique quartet made up of musicians from EABS […]
A Jazz Musician’s Guide to the 2020 EFG London Jazz Festival
Last year, Sam Leak wrote a Jazz Musician’s Guide to the festival (link below) in which he played the role of ‘in-the-know’ tour guide, helping readers to navigate their way through the […]
Holding Press Release for EFG London Jazz Festival 2020
Serious and the EFG London Jazz Festival have put out what amounts to a holding press release – with no specific names or venues mentioned – concerning their plans for the EFG […]
#IWD2020: Isobella Burnham, bassist
A recent London arrival, bassist Isobella Burnham came to town from Barbados, where she grew up, in 2018. Since then she’s taken the London jazz scene by storm, gigging and touring with […]
#IWD2020: Areni Agbabian, vocalist, pianist and composer
Leah Williams speaks to Armenian-American musician Areni Agbabian for International Women’s Day about the women who raised her musically, working with Tigran Hamasyan, and signing to ECM Records. Areni is best-known to […]
#IWD2020: Aga Zaryan, vocalist
Aga Zaryan, a jazz singer born in Warsaw, has gained international recognition and star status in her native Poland. Her success might be partly explained by the way she has managed to […]
#IWD2020: Teena Lyle, multi-instrumentalist
British musician Teena Lyle plays vibraphone, congas, percussion, electronic percussion, timpani, piano and synth, B3 Hammond organ, recorders, acoustic guitar and also sings. Before doing a gig in San Francisco, on tour […]
