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WHAT WE'VE BEEN COVERING ON LJN

NEWS


TRIBUTE: Mick Goodrick (above - 1945-2022) by Mark Small

NEWS: Tori Freestone wins Ivors Composer Award (Jazz Ensemble) 2022 (Photo above by Mark Allan)


NEWS: Wynton Marsalis announced as Headliner For Buxton Jazz Weekender
(picture of Wynton in Manchester in 1989 by William Ellis)

NEWS: Ewan Hastie wins fifth BBC Young Jazz Musician Competition (Photo Tricia Yourkevich/ BBC)


NEWS: Rebel Spirits Series 2 (Polish Jazz) podcast launches. First episode features Marcin Masecki (24 Nov)

 

PREVIEWS/INTERVIEWS/FEATURES


NEW FEATURE / INTERVIEW: The Ostara Project (celebrating Canadian women in jazz – new album) (pictured above: Sanah Kadoura, Jodi Proznick, Laila Biali, Allison Au, Amanda Tosoff, Valerie Lacombe, Joanna Majoko, Rachel Therrien, Shruti Ramani, Virginia MacDonald, Jocelyn Gould) 


MOTHERS IN JAZZ: (17) Maucha Adnet

REVIEWS
 

EFG London Jazz Festival 2022 Reviews


Melody Gardot at the Royal Festival Hall (picture above by John Watson)
Jazz Voice at the Royal Festival Hall
Linda May Han Oh Quartet at Pizza Express Soho
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid and Anthony Braxton New Quartet
Jan Garbarek Group at Royal Festival Hall
Dianne Reeves at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Jasper Høiby Planet B at the Purcell Room
MoodSwing Quartet (Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Brian Blade) at the Barbican
The Egyptian Jazz Projekt at Grand Junction
ChicagoXLondon at the Barbican
Indo-Jazz Fusions Revisited at the Spice of Life
Aziza (Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke, Eric Harland) at Cadogan Hall
Jazz Sabbath at Pizza Express Soho
Matana Roberts at Milton Court


Daniel Herskedal Trio at Kings Place (picture above by Tim Dickeson)
Take 6 at Pizza Express Holborn
Sun-Mi Hong Quintet + Ant Law & Alex Hitchcock at Purcell Room
Nu Civilisation Orchestra – Joni Mitchell’s Hejira &  Mingus
Take 5 Presents: Misha Mullov Abbado, Charlotte Keeffe, Marcus Joseph
‘The Hydra Presents EFG London Jazz Festival’ at Printworks
Nardis Jazz Club – London Pop-Up by Turquazz
Catherine Russell at Pizza Express Soho
Dhafer Youssef, Eivind Aarset  Ballaké Sissoko and Adriano Dos Santos: Digital Africa – plus Zoe Rahman Trio at Barbican
The Big Swing featuring Emma Smith, Georgina Jackson & Vula Malinga at Cadogan Hall (with a lot of positive comment - on the show)
Tribute to Don Cherry at the Barbican - with some very sad news just after the concert

EVERYTHING ELSE


ALBUM: Norah Jones, Peter Gabriel, Gregory Porter et al – Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen
LIVE: Maria Rud and Tommy Smith – Luminescence at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
LIVE: Pančevo Jazz Festival 2022 (Serbia)
ALBUM: Erol Pekcan / Tuna Ötenel / Kudret Öztoprak – Jazz Semai (rec. 1978)
ALBUM: Alex Paxton – Illoli Pop
ALBUM: Andrew McCormack – Terra Firma
ALBUM: WDR Big Band ft Luigi Grasso and Johan Hörlén – Birth Of A Bird
ALBUM: Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band In Concert (rec. 1960)

MOST-READ

1) NEWS: Ewan Hastie wins fifth BBC Young Jazz Musician Competition
2) REVIEW: Jan Garbarek (EFG LJF 2022)
3) ALBUM REVIEW: Norah Jones, Peter Gabriel, Gregory Porter et al – Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen
4) REVIEW: Henry Threadgill’s Zooid and Anthony Braxton New Quartet (2022 EFG LJF)

READ ELSEWHERE

• Richard Williams reviewed Trinity Laban’s concert featuring the music of Mike Gibbs at the Vortex (photo above of Josephine Davies, Hans Koller and Mike Gibbs by Patrick Hadfield)
• Ron Carter wished a happy birthday to Geoffrey Keezer
• The Courier reviewed Tommy Smith's solo saxophone concert in the East Neuk of Fife
• Dave Gelly reviewed Emmett Cohen’s new album ‘Uptown in Orbit’ in the Observer
• Garrett Saracho was interviewed on the Jazz Podcast
• Pat Metheny pays tribute to the late Mick Goodrick
• The Guardian talks to six of Britain’s new jazz musicians about 'making a living out of their passion’

• Congratulations Claire Cope on winning the Marvin Hamlisch Award for Jazz Composition (Emerging Division/International) (photo of Claire Cope above)
• Joe Muggs reviewed the Native Rebel / Shabaka Hutchings showcase at Earth in Dalston...
• ...and the Mingus / Hejira show by the Nu Civilisation Orchestra in Poole
• Ethan Iverson takes an in-depth look at composer George Russell’s first three records as a leader
• Rob Adams previewed the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s series of upcoming concerts, ‘In the Spirit of Duke’, for Jazz in Europe 
• …the tour was also previewed in the Scottish Daily Express
• The winners of the Grassroots Jazz raffle have been announced
• The National Youth Jazz Collective released a new promotional video
• Esperanza Spalding is leaving her position at Harvard

• And Sebastian did an LJF Round-Up for The Arts Desk (Photo of Stan Sulzmann above by Carlo Mogavero)

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD
 
 
1) Live gigs
 
 
Wednesday 23 November - Chris Hodgkins Quartet at The Barley Mow, Shepperton
Wednesday 23 November - Robin Phillips is playing at the Gonville Hotel in Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Jazz Festival
Wednesday 23 November - Jessica Bullen Quintet are at the Vortex
 

 
Wednesday 23 November -  Pianist David Gordon & his Trio showcase music from his new album "Pachyderm" at the 606
Wednesday 23 November - Zoe Francis & Jim Mullen Blue Town Trio are at Twickenham Jazz Club
Wednesday 23 November -  Richard Exell is with the Blue Vanguard Trio Ashburton Arts Centre, 15 West Street, TQ13 7DT
Thursday 24 November -  UCL Jazz society presents The Eras of Jazz at Bloomsbury Theatre
Thursday 24 November -  Richard Exell is with the Blue Vanguard Trio Mathews Hall,  EX3 0HF
Thursday 24 November -Kjetil Møster, John Edwards and Dag Erik Knedal Andersen are at the Vortex
Thursday 24 November - The Westbrook Blake is being performed at St James Church Piccadilly
Thursday 24 November - Andy Panayi is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
Thursday 24 November - Randolph Matthews & Nicolas Meier are at Sound Cellar in Poole
Thursday 24 November - James Davison & Duncan Hemstock play the music of Harry 'Sweets' Edison & Ben Webster is at Spike’s Place Jazz Club - Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3
Thursday 24 November - Guitar legend John Etheridge (Soft Machine) & his Blue Spirits Organ Trio are at the 606
Thursday 24 November - The Fallen Heroes – Swinging New Orleans flavored jazz & funky R&B with a twist from the Heroes featuring Kansas City boogie pianist Dean Ross & the Martin Bros over in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 24 November - Charlotte Keeffe Quartet at MAAD (fka Karamel)
Thursday 24 November - Myele Manzanza is at are at Jazzre:freshed
 

 
Thursday 24 November - Gareth Williams Trio ft Chris Laurence and Martin France debut their new album Short Stories are at the Hampstead Jazz Club , Duke of Hamilton
Friday 25 November - Tom Ollendorf is with Ben Wendel at the Vortex
Friday 25 November - Quintet Blue are at 1000 Trades, 16 Frederick St, Birmingham B1 3HE
Friday 25 November - Soul & groove singer Beverley Skeete (Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings) & her band are at the 606
Friday 25 November - Christian Vaughan: "Jazz Journeys..." (Live jazz piano bar, fee entry) is at Jazz Cafe POSK
Friday 25 November - Jo Harrop and Paul Edis have a special gig at the Hampstead Jazz Club
Saturday 26 November  - Henry Lowther's Still Waters are at the Vortex
Saturday 26 November  -  Saxophonist/flautist Allison Neale featuring trumpeter Mark Kavuma (Banger Factory) are at the 606
Saturday 26 November  - Pete Churchill Quintet  are at Guildford Jazz
Saturday 26 November  - Renato D'Aiello Quartet are at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend
Saturday 26 November - Heidi Vogel Quartet: "Heidi Vogel Sings Sarah Vaughan!.." are at Jazz Cafe POSK
Sunday 27 November - lunchtime at the Oval Tavern in Croydon are Basil Hodge Quartet featuring Riley Stone Lonergan, Dave Manington, & Rod Youngs
Sunday 27 November - Soul singer/songwriter (& former pro-footballer!) Gavin Holligan & his band is at he 606
Sunday 27 November - The Vortex have Mopomoso in the afternoon and a jazz jam with Jas Kayser in the evening
Sunday 27 November - The Festival of French Jazz have London Django Collective (London’s Foremost Gypsy Jazz Musicians) at The Actors’ Church, St Paul’s Church Covent Garden
Sunday 27 November - Frank Griffith Trio  are at Frederiks Bar. 32 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BX
Sunday 27 November - The LP Swing Orchestra is at The Warren, Hayes, Kent – With Julia Sullivan
Monday 28 November - Sam Norris Quartet  are at Jazz at the Oxford now at Assembly House 292-294 Kentish Town Rd, London NW5 2TG
Monday 28 November - LP Swing Orchestra are bringing their Swingin' Christmas show to the Stables
Monday 28 November - Singer/songwriter Lisa Kwei releases her new single in association with the charity Parkinsons UK is at the 606
Tuesday 29 November – Terry Seabrook Latin Jazz T-Rio at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Tuesday 29 November –  Kevin Hays / Lily Lyons are at the Vortex
Tuesday 29 November - Alan Barnes Octet-Copperfield is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 29 November -  Special Event! Jason Rebello “My Life In Music” - In conversation and live performance! Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury.
Tuesday 29 November -   Uruguayan guitarist Guille Hill (Tom Jones, Mica Paris) & his Latin Jazz quartet is at the 606
Wednesday 30 November - Miles Mindlin Quartet are at the Vortex
Wednesday 30 November - Mark Crooks is at Eastbourne - Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 30 November - Frank Griffith Trio are at Fleetwood Heskith Sports Club. Fylde Road, Southport, PR9 9XH
Wednesday 30 November - South African harmonica player Adam Glasser & Dutch pianist Mike del Ferro celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Toots Thielemans  is at the 606
Wednesday 30 November - Special Pre-Xmas Jazz Cabaret featuring two of International Cabaret’s Grandest of Dames,  Barb Jungr & Dillie Keane over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, SW4
 

 
Thursday 1 December - Stan Sulzmann is at MAAD aka Karamel in Wood Green
Thursday 1 December - Sue Richardson is at Googlies Jazz Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
Thursday 1 December - Tori Freestone Trio are at the Vortex
Thursday 1 December - At the 606  Hungarian Musician's XChange: Jazz Trumpeter Balázs Szalóky & his quartet ft. pianist Mátyás Gayer
Thursday 1 December - Jazz trumpeter Quentin Collins and his quartet ft. Andrew McCormack are at the 606
Friday 2 December - Rosie Frater-Taylor is at Guildford Jazz
Friday 2 December - Migdalia Van Dr Hoven at Jazz Café Posk
Friday 2 December - Frances Shine and Neal Richardson are at Nautilus Lohnge Brighton
Friday 2 December – Kansas Smitty's Big Band present Duke Ellington's Nutcracker at Woolwich Works
Saturday 3 December 12 – 2pm at St John’s Leytonstone, E11 1HH Home is where the music is with Beth Hopkins, Jelly Cleaver + China Bowls
Saturday 3 December - Magpie - Sam Jesson , George Crowley and Tom Farmer are at Listen ! atCambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, CB1 1JW
Saturday 3 December - Grand Union Orchestra are at Shoreditch Town Hall
Saturday 3 December - Simon Purcell's Red Circle ft Julian Siegel are at the Vortex
Saturday 3 December - Saxophonist Ed Jones Quartet are at the 606
Saturday 3 December - Spotlight on Beverly Skeete , Kevin Leo and Gemma Dorset at Conway Hall , Holborn
Sunday 4 December  lunchtime - Mainstream jazz vocalist Zoe Francis ft. guitarist Jim Mullen & keyboardist Ross Stanley are at the 606
Sunday 4 December lunchtime  - at the Oval Tavern in Croydon is the Tony Kofi Quartet
Sunday 4 December evening - Soul singer Wayne Hernandez  is at the 606
Sunday 4 December - Cath Robert / Christoph Gallio / Olie Brice / Mark Sanders are at Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson Street, London E2 8JD
Sunday 4 December - Frank Griffith Trio are at Penny Lane Wine Bar. 116 Penny Lane, Liverpool, L18 1DQ
Monday 5 December - Christoph Gallio / Phil Durrant are at Boat-Ting @ Bar & Co, Temple Pier, Emabankment opposite Temple tube
Monday 5 December - Slovakian-born singer/songwriter Jana Varga & her band are at the 606 in Chelsea
Monday 5 December - The LP Swing Orchestra are Swingin’ Christmas at Dorking Halls
 
 

 
Tuesday 6 December –  Sultan Stevenson Trio are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 6 December – Nigel Price Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Tuesday 6 December – The 606 have Interphase - new groove/hard bop/contemporary jazz quartet ft saxophonist Sean Khan and pianist Tomasz Zyrmont
Wednesday 7 December - Blues & New Orleans R&B with singer/keyboardist Arthur Lea’s Bootleg Trio are at the 606
Wednesday 7 December - Naviar Haiku Fest is on at Cafe Oto ft amonst other Encym with George Crowley
Wednesday 7 December – Myele Manzanza, Amy Gadiaga, Emma Rawicz and Rupert Cox are at Woolwich Works
Wednesday 7 December - Sue Richardson presents Bird at The View Seaford BN25 4JS
Thursday 8 December - Mike Fletcher's Silent Form are at the Eastside Jazz Club Birmingham
Thursday 8 December – 'Pop Noir' singer/songwriter Rebecca Poole aka Purdy & her band is at the 606
Thursday 8 December – Spannocchi Quartet are at Woolwich Works
Thursday 8 December - Winter Jazz at Bureau at Greenwich Peninsula SE10 0AX with Daisy George , Waldo's Gift and Maria Chiara Argiro
Friday 9 December – Winter Jazz at Bureau at Greenwich Peninsula SE10 0AX with Olive Jones , Ben Marc and Jackson Mathod
Friday 9 December – Maddalena Ghezzi/Francesco Naibo +  Bruno Heinen/Maria Chiara Argiro are at the Vortex
Friday 9 December – Alan Barnes & Andy Panayi Sextet at Chichester jazz Club – The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, PO19 1SY.
Friday 9 December – Fiona Ross at Hampstead Jazz Club
Saturday 10 December - Jazz fusion & funk with the Brandon Allen Groove Band are at the 606
Sunday 11 December - Lunchtime Special at the 606 with the 606 Gospel Group Xmas Concert
Sunday 11 December evening at the 606 its legendary blues icon, singer Dana Gillespie and The London Blues Band
Sunday 11 December - Will Glaser, Alex Bonney, and Matthew Herd are at Centrala
Sunday 11 December - Gabriele Pribetti Band are Off the Rails at One Kew Road, Richmond TW9 2NQ
Monday 12 December - Jive Aces at the Aldwych Theatre
Monday 12 December - Jazz Saxophonist Tim Whitehead and his daughter, singer/songwriter Hattie Whitehead are at the 606
Tuesday 13 December – Simon Spillett Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Tuesday 13 December – Saxophonist Dan Reinstein “Celebrating 20 Years at the 606”
Wednesday 14 December - Jiving Miss Daisy at Eastbourne - Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 14 December - Australian jazz & folk singer/songwriter Lauren Lucille & her brand new trio co-led with guitarists Jo Caleb & Luca Boscagin
Thursday 15 December - Huw Warren and Mark Lockheart duo are at the Vortex
Friday 16 December - Georgina Jackson is at Guildford Jazz
Saturday 17 December - Spotlight on Beverly Skeete , Kevin Leo and Gemma Dorset at Conway Hall , Holborn
Sunday 18 December -  Riverside Arts Jazz Christmas Special with Stuart Henderson and Vasilis Xenopoulos joining Terence Collie, Richard Sadler & Tristan Mailliot at Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury
Tuesday 20 December - Pigfoot are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
 
 
2) Live Streamed Timed Events - Listed in time order.
 
Wednesday 23 November -Ken Peplowski is streaming from Birdland HERE
Thursday 24 November  - Randolph Matthews & Nicolas Meier are streaming from  Sound Cellar in Poole HERE
Thursday 24 November - Tom Ollendorf Trio with Ben Wendel ares streaming from the Yard in Manchester HERE
Friday 25 November- Kandace Springs is streaming from Keystone Korner in Baltimore HERE
Friday 25 November - Black Art Jazz Collective streams from Smokes HERE
Saturday 26 November - Quintet Blue are streaming from Peggy’s Skylight HERE
Monday 28 November - Bassekou Kouyate 'Ngoni Ba' is streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna HERE
Wednesday 30 November - From the 606  Adam Glasser/Mike del Ferro: Toots Thielemans at 100 HERE
Thursday 1 December - Josh Kemp / Alex Hutton's Coltrane Project  are streaming from Peggy’s Skylight HERE
Sunday 4 December - Nduduzo Makhathini 'In the Spirit of Ntu' is streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna HERE
Thursday 8 December - Gary Husband is streaming from St Mary's Perivale HERE
Friday 9 December -Orrin Evans streams from Smokes HERE
 
 
3) Residencies
 
Every Monday at Off The Cuff , Railton Road, Herne Hill, London, at 8.30 Roger Humbles Quartet followed at 9.30 by a jam.
Every Tuesday -  Silver Bullet Jazz Jam at The Night Owl in Finsbury Park with Bukky Leo
Tuesdays - Jazz Duo pianist  Aurelius Sciuka /  W bass  Lakis Economou & guests @ The Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone, London E11 1HG
Every other Tuesday the Jake Goss Quartet are at Haverstock Tavern
Every Thursday , Friday and Saturday Leo Green hosts shows at the Middle Eight bar WC2B 5BX
Every Thursday at The Great North Wood, 3 Knight Hill, Norwood, London, at 8.30 Roger Humbles Quartet followed at 9.30 by a jam.
 
4) NOT TIMED –
 
Emmet Cohen has still got a weekly stream going on Monday nights from his place HERE
Smalls in New York are streaming every night and if you sign up you get access to their archive HERE
Snake Davis has  at home Livestreams 7pm (BST) every Friday, Saturday and Sunday HERE  plus sax clinics on Sundays at 11am then click on the live screen.
There is a Facebook group called Jazz Stream Sessions which has a number of jazz streaming events - HERE
Duke Ellington Society UK, Uptown Lockdown have podcasts , broadcasts HERE
 
5) Radio etc
 
Frank Griffith - "The Jazz Cavern”  Thursdays at 9PM. Repeats at 6PM Sunday HERE
Liverpool Community Radio -  “The Jazz Cavern” 106.7 FM. www.l-c-r.co.uk Airs on weekly Fridays-2PM, Saturdays- 4PM, Tuesdays- 4PM
The European Jazz Hour with Peter Slavid – HERE or on hayesfm 91.8 FM
Wednesdays at 10pm on Radio Deal - Jazz on the Beach with Adam Sieff HERE
Watch The LP Swing Orchestra on Sky Arts on 20th and 27th June at 7pm. 
Marlow FM's longstanding Jazz Show "Swing That Music" (www.marlowfm.co.uk) 6pm Sunday repeated 10pm Monday) now gets a worldwide audience being transmitted 5 times weekly by New York's Pure Jazz Radio (www.purejazzradio.com)
 
6) Courses etc
 
Guildhall Jazz Department have a course Jazz History from 1959 to 1964 led by Miguel Gorodi January - February 2023 HERE