Results for "London"

Article: Live Review

Kishon Khan and Lokkhi Terra at London Latin Jazz Festival

by Gareth Thomas
October 25, 2017

Kishon Khan and Lokkhi Terra London Latin Jazz Festival PizzaExpress Live London October 20, 2017 Lokkhi Terra, led by Bangladeshi-born pianist Kishon Khan, brought their fusion of Bangladeshi folk and Afro-Cuban jazz to London Soho's Pizza Express Jazz Club on 20th October, as part of 2017's London Latin Jazz Festival. ...

News: Video / DVD

Dizzy Gillespie in London, 1969

October 20, 2017

And on this final day of my four-part series of tributes to Dizzy Gillespie, I saved the best for last: In November 1969, Jazz at the Philharmonic was in London. In the following video, we get to hear producer Norman Granz introduce the first jam-session septet (and oh was a group): Dizzy Gillespie (t), James Moody ...

Article: Profile

Courtney Pine: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

by David Burke
October 16, 2017

Courtney Pine didn't pick up his beloved tenor saxophone for more than a decade, until an album exploring the black British experience demanded it. The multi-instrumentalist eschewed the horn on the likes of Europa, House of Legends and Song (The Ballad Book), his two-hander with pianist Zoe Rahman. “I spoke to Sonny Rollins about ...

News: Performance / Tour

Just Announced! The Dean Brown Band ROLAJAFUFU Fall Tour 2017

October 15, 2017

TOUR DATES Nov 02: Bemowskie Centrum Kultury Warsaw, Poland Nov 03: Jazz w muzeum Festival Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland Nov 04: Vier Peh Stuttgart, Germany Nov 05: Ronnie Scott’s London, United Kingdom Nov 07: Master Class. University of Music Mannheim Mannheim, Germany Nov 08 New Morning Paris, ...

Article: Profile

Mônica Vasconcelos: Brazil Songs of Resistance

by Duncan Heining
October 3, 2017

A tanned, beautiful young woman in a skimpy bikini walks through the lapping sea waters on the edge of a sun-soaked beach. Soft music plays, its shifting beat following her footsteps. It's a cliché, of course, but a powerful one when it comes to thoughts (male, mainly) of Brazil and its music. UK-based Brazilian ...

News: Music Industry

London-based Hitmakers Cousteau Reform As CousteauX

September 15, 2017

After a break of more than a decade, singer Liam McKahey and songwriter/instrumentalist Davey Ray Moor of London- based hitmakers Cousteau have reformed as CousteauX. The album of the same name is set for worldwide digital release by Silent X Recordings on September 15. The CD is released 9/22 and the vinyl LP on 9/29. A ...

Article: Album Review

John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension: Live at Ronnie Scott's

Read "Live at Ronnie Scott's" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
September 10, 2017

Music has taken him and his guitar to some of the most exotic far reaches of the world, but Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club will always have a special place in John McLaughlin's heart. His mid-1960s time in the famous London venue's house band was a key early step in his musical life, and he idly wonders ...

News: Recording

Jazz Goes Mod, 1961

August 30, 2017

Many Americans born in the 1950s like to think of London in 1961 as a set from My Fair Lady. Lots of rosy- cheeked Julie Andrews types, coal fireplaces, and men rushing about in forest-green tweed. Also in these same imaginations, teenage guys look like the brooding Beatles during their Hamburg, Germany, period while teenage girls ...

Article: Live Review

The Songs of Scott Walker (1967-70) at Royal Albert Hall

by John Eyles
August 19, 2017

Scott Walker Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms London July 25, 2017 Opportunities to hear Scott Walker's music performed in public are few and far between, the last notable events before this one having been at the Barbican theatre in November 2008. Featuring several performers, notably including Damon Albarn and Jarvis ...

News: Book / Magazine

Little Melanie: A New Musical Comedy Television And Children's Book Series Pays Tribute To Jazz Legend Hazel Scott

August 18, 2017

London5 Studios' Little Melanie is a new brand of children’s entertainment representing diversity and inspiring kids with “the dream is everything" message by paying tribute to jazz pianist Hazel Scott. Little Melanie children’s books and musical comedy television series centres around the diverse family of our heroine. Melanie is a child prodigy who is passionate about ...