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Jo Harrop in Gateshead (see below). Photo Ken Drew courtesy of Lance Liddle Wednesday 2 October – Pete Bernstein / Jim Mullen are at the 606 Wednesday 2 October – Alexander Hawkins / Marco Colonna are ...

Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers – Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths, and Gardens(Red Hook Records RH 1005. CD review by Jon Turney) Hearing this beautifully absorbing short ...

Drew McOnie’s Nutcracker on the South Bank with a jazz score by Cassie Kinoshi has been getting good reviews (photo Mark Senior) – read more Wednesday 8 November – Mark Armstrong from Miles to ...

LondonJazz is a not-for profit venture, but may occasionally take on work as a paid publicist and/or sell advertising packages. Where a piece published after 26th October 2012 appears which is linked ...

Dutch-raised saxophonist Kasper Rietkerk has been based in London since 2023. His album ‘the island’ will be released on 24 June on the Dutch ZenneZ label. The album features his original compositions ...

Remarkable news: Mosaic Records have perfected the time machine. All you have to do is climb aboard this latest collection, set New York City as your destination and dial 1944 on the retro clock. On ...

Michel Benita Quartet – Looking At Sounds (ECM 6025 0872884. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Michel Benita is a a French bass player born in Algeria. He is mainly known in the UK for […] ...

“You think you can outlast the E Street Band?!”, Bruce Springsteen asks incredulously, some three hours and five minutes into the first of two massive shows at ...

Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves him – […] LondonJazz is a ...

Neil Hughes is familiar to the jazz community as a promoter. He started The Cinnamon Club in Altrincham (South Manchester) in January 2003. The club puts on around 80 gigs a year […] LondonJazz is a ...

Vocalist Nicky Schrire (*), London-born, Cape Town-raised, and now Toronto-based, hosted a London launch for “Nowhere Girl”, the first album she has released in a decade. Bruce Lindsay has reviewed it ...