If, in the recent months, London has become a “jazzcat forge” with new artists emerging, earning exposure and enriching the city’s jazz scene almost on a daily basis, the credit has to go to up-and-coming projects like Blue Lab Beats. We don’t exaggerate in saying that the duo, formed by...
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This is a show you wouldn’t want to miss! After five albums and eight years on the worldbeat scene, Bixiga 70 are still one of the most original bands around, and Quebra Cabeça, their latest fresh-off-the-press album released on Glitterbeat, is clear proof. The band from São Paulo hasn’t changed its...
A special show by London-based Bahla awaits us as part of Royal Albert Hall’s Late Night Jazz Sessions in their smaller venue, The Elgar Room. The Royal Albert Hall has been putting on these evenings for a long time, and recently have seen many of London’s up-and-coming jazz artists grace...
It doesn’t happen every day that we have the opportunity to enjoy sounds coming from Korea. Luckily, once a year, Serious and the Korean Cultural Centre fill venues like Southbank Centre, Kings Place and Rich Mix with East Asian notes, offering to London the K-Music Festival. During seven shows scattered...
On the London Latin Jazz Festival‘s eve, we couldn’t find a more appropriate cicerone to guide us through the musical marvels of Latin Jazz than the festival’s curator herself, Eliane Correa. Join the up & coming Cuban/Argentinian pianist, composer and arranger at Pizza Express Live tomorrow (Tuesday 16th October) and, in...
The art-splattered walls of an old Peckham car park makes for a fantastically immersive and creative space, that holds all manner of independent businesses and creative hives. On the fifth floor sits Ghost Notes, a trendy music/events venue with a wonderful spectacle view of the tube occasionally whizzing past behind...
Having one of the jazziest DJs compile a playlist for you doesn’t happen every day. So, we’re more than thrilled to share what LeFtO has prepared for us… He retraced his musical inspirations through an 11-track playlist, including some of his favourite tunes; songs that have helped him to form his eclectic...
Tenderlonious, the founder of 22a Records, brings his band to Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club on 10th October. A regular on the London jazz scene, Edward Cawthorne, aka Tenderlonious, is formidable and one of the most interesting voices currently circulating London venues. Whether he’s bigging up and supporting legends such as...
Are you ready for a full-immersion in K-sounds? For the fifth year in a row, Serious and the Korean Cultural Centre are bringing to London the K-music Festival with its full supply of East Asian notes. Check out our playlist and have a sneak peek and listen to what you can enjoy...
I interviewed Yazz Ahmed; the established face of contemporary fusion jazz. Since releasing her debut album in 2011 (Finding My Way Home), Yazz Ahmed has been conquering the scene with her original blend of Arabian maqam scales played on a unique quarter-toned flugelhorn. As well as this, Yazz’s long list...
