Tony Dudley-Evans reflects on his experiences at this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival. I followed what was a rather strange path through the EFG London Jazz Festival governed by commitments in Birmingham and a wish to take in a big… Read More ›
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Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer and Kenny Wheeler Quintet
Review by Andy Boeckstaens EFG London Jazz Festival Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 18-11-2013 The double-bill of the Kenny Wheeler Quintet, followed by Lee Konitz and Dan Tepfer, was always going to be a highlight of this year’s festival. It turned… Read More ›
Tigran – Shadow Theater
(Verve 374 26744) Tigran Hamasyan – or just Tigran as he now prefers to be known – is one of those musicians who seems to have emerged fully formed. Although he is only 26, he has in fact been playing… Read More ›
Julie Sassoon – Land Of Shadows
(jazzwerkstatt JW127) While group playing, even duos, seem to me to be essentially external conversations in music, the solo performance is a deeply personal and internal affair. An audience may be present, but it’s still a conversation between the artist… Read More ›
Mark Perry & Duncan Eagles – Road Ahead
(F-IRECD 65) Trumpeter Mark Perry and saxophonist Duncan Eagles were heard recently forming the frontline of the Ollie Howell Quintet, but this band goes back to last year’s London Jazz Festival, where they played this material – all written by… Read More ›
Birmingham Conservatoire grad Dan Nicholls named in LJF Take Five list
The organisers of the EFG London Jazz Festival will announce the eight young UK musicians chosen for the ninth edition of their Take Five development scheme on Sunday 24 November. But in the meantime they have already named them on… Read More ›
Chronicle of a jazz death foretold
In my 30 years as a daily newspaper sub-editor, nearly every time one of my associates was tasked with writing a headline for a story about jazz it would come back with one including the words “all that jazz”. And… Read More ›
Evan Parker – November 2013
Evan Parker, generally considered one of the most significant developers of saxophone playing since John Coltrane, is busy getting together with his long-term collaborators Alex Von Schlippenbach and Paul Lovens prior to their annual “Winterreise”, which includes performances at the… Read More ›
JJ Wheeler – October 2013
Drummer and composer JJ Wheeler used to write for this blog, in between studying at Birmingham Conservatoire. Then he went to London. Then, just as his career was blooming, he found he had cancer. Now he is back in London,… Read More ›
Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow – Trios
(ECM 372 4551) The composer/pianist Carla Bley, the saxophonist Andy Sheppard and the electric bassist Steve Swallow, three musicians who know each other’s playing so intimately that they are not only thoroughly integrated technically but in mood, too. I would… Read More ›
LJF: Rollins, Shorter, Mehldau, Masekela, Peyroux for sale from Friday
Good Golly Miss Holiday! It’s the first day when I haven’t switched the heating on in my office and I find that tickets for some events at the London Jazz Festival – or should that be the EFG London Jazz… Read More ›
London Jazz Festival – where to go to read all about it
Well, it’s not here, I’m afraid. Due to circumstances slightly outside of thejazzbreakfast’s control, we’re unable to be 120 miles further south during the next couple of weeks, and must content ourselves with thoughts of next year’s London Jazz Festival…. Read More ›
What you now can’t hear at London Jazz Festival – and what you still can
If you were wanting to catch Sonny Rollins or Melody Gardot or Rodriguez at the London Jazz Festival and you don’t have a ticket, I’m afraid you have been transformed from a Johnny Come Lately to a Johnny Head In… Read More ›
London Jazz Festival – the full programme
We’ve had quite a lot of it already in previous announcements, but here, officially and in their own words, is the full programme for the London Jazz Festival (Fri 9 Nov – Sun 18 Nov 2012). Take a deep breath… Read More ›
First names for 2012 London Jazz Festival
The dates are Friday 9 November to Sunday 18 November, and the line-up is going to be so attractive it might break not only our credit cards but our pension funds as well. So what better way to spread the… Read More ›
LJF concert review: Henry Threadgill’s Zooid
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London UK 19-11-2011 While all those smaller gigs all over the city are important in making the London Jazz Festival representative not only of jazz in the world but in this city, one of the really valuable… Read More ›
LJF Concert review: Gretchen Parlato
Kings Place, London UK 18-11-2011 There are gigs, there are good gigs, and there are gigs that are preceded by a measure of excited anticipation and deliver the bright shining faces of real jazz satisfaction. This was one of the… Read More ›
