Detroit-born singer Carla Cook is making a rare visit to London. She will be at Pizza Express Dean Street on 2 March with the trio of Matyas Gayer (piano), Mark Hodgson (bass) and Stephen […]
Carla Cook (Pizza Express, 2 March 2022)
Jerry Bergonzi Quartet at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho (12/13 Feb. 2022)
Saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi will be in London next month. It will be the first time he has ventured out of the US since the start of the pandemic. Preview by Charles Rees […]
Eddie Henderson Quartet Plus Xhosa Cole, Richard Foote and Chris Young in Birmingham
Eddie Henderson Quartet Plus Xhosa Cole, Richard Foote and Chris Young (Pizza Express, Brindley Place, Birmingham, 14 November. Review and photos by John Watson) The two greatest challenges facing any jazz trumpeter […]
Peter King Memorial Concert at Pizza Express (23 August 2021)
The great Peter King (1940-2020) passed away on 23 August, 2020, just a few days after his 80th birthday, To mark the first anniversary of his passing, drummer Stephen Keogh has organised […]
Greetings and Birthday Wishes for Peter King at 80
One of the very great figures of British Jazz, saxophonist Peter King is eighty years old today. Colleagues, friends and fans send best wishes: JULIAN ARGÜELLES: Even now at the age of […]
Global Music Foundation 2020 (courses in Tuscany/London, April/August)
Global Music Foundation 2020 offers jazz intensive music courses and festivals in Tuscany and London. Its director, Stephen Keogh explains more: We’re starting off this new year with the launch of a […]
Dick Oatts Quartet at Pizza Express Jazz Club (2019 EFG LJF)
Dick Oatts Quartet (Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street. EFG London Jazz Festival. 20 November 2019. Review by Samuel Norris) “If there’s anything we need right now, it’s a little bit of […]
Vanessa Rubin (Pizza Pheasantry 21-23 November 2019)
Cleveland-born singer VANESSA RUBIN has been a fixture in New York since the 1980s. She made several albums for RCA/Novus in the 1990s, has a new album of songs by Tadd Dameron, […]
