
Niklas Winter: Graduale (abovoice. Album review by Phil Johnson) Unusually for a guitarist’s album, there’s not an overabundance of guitar on ‘Graduale’ by the Finnish composer and instrumentalist Niklas Winter. Instead, Winter […]
Niklas Winter: Graduale (abovoice. Album review by Phil Johnson) Unusually for a guitarist’s album, there’s not an overabundance of guitar on ‘Graduale’ by the Finnish composer and instrumentalist Niklas Winter. Instead, Winter […]
The London Jazz Orchestra’s 30th anniversary season will close this Sunday afternoon 3 July (*) with a concert featuring the music of Martin Speake and Henry Lowther. There is an LJN connection […]
Vortex Jazz Club presents a night of jazz and poetry with Man of Words & Music: Shake Keane (Pt. II). Izzy Blankfield writes: As part of Vortex Jazz Club’s series celebrating the […]
Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra – Tales From The Jacquard (Whirlwind Recordings. Album review by Richard Lee) For the last 25 years, saxophonist Julian Siegel has been establishing himself as a first-rate player […]
Henry Lowther celebrates his 80th birthday today, 11 July 2021. We invited friends, colleagues and fans to wish him a very happy birthday. Charles Alexander: Hi Henry, Congratulations on your 80th birthday! […]
Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (Decca 5393586. Album review by Denny Ilett) The great trumpeter and educator Clark Terry used a phrase that became somewhat of a mantra for budding jazz musicians; […]
Group Sounds Four & Five – Black & White Raga (Jazz In Britain. CD review by John Bungey) There’s a tune here from 1966 written by Jack Bruce, the late and legendary […]
King Crimson – The Complete 1969 Recordings(Panegyric. CD review by John Bungey) Let’s time-travel back five decades to an era when jazz music and rock music fused in a febrile collision of […]
LondonJazz News provides by far the most extensive coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. Here is a list of the 2020 EFG LJF reviews completed so far by our writers. Most-reads so […]
Sebastian writes: At a time when a lot of live gigs have been cancelled, there was suddenly a positive buzz coming from Wood Green N22 last week. Musicians who had been booked […]
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 […]