It’s that party time of year again: tastemakers have their eyes on the city as London gets glammed up to show off its best talent for the EFG London Jazz Festival. Camilla George is one of the emerging musicians attracting the attention of the music world, who are taking an...
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If you had the time of your life during the 25th edition, you will almost certainly be blown away by the 26th! 325 shows with more than 2000 artists performing on 70+ stages throughout 10 days. This is what EFG London Jazz Festival 2018 has in store for every music lover. The upcoming...
The EFG London Jazz Festival has seen some of the biggest names in Latin jazz, but the current genre front runners will be taking to the Barbican stage on 23rd November. Perhaps none are better known for their versatile style and inherent knowledge of the Latin jazz language than Arturo O’Farrill....
A band steeped in societal message, Bokanté strive to bring more awareness to social abstraction and human indifference. Through a cultural exchange and mingling of musical languages, the new group (formed by Snarky Puppy founder Michael League) cover a diverse spectrum of styles. Despite the heavy theme of their lyrics,...
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...
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...
Bixiga 70 (who are ready to take London by storm with a show at the Jazz Cafe tonight) have just released one of the best albums of the year for Glitterbeat Records. Titled Quebra Cabeça (‘puzzle’ in English), the work is brimming with Afro-Brazilian rhythms, instrumental far-out creativity and radical attitude. So, we couldn’t help...
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Album Review: Bokanté and Metropole Orkest – What Heat [Real World Records; 28th September 2018]
Two hot, Grammy award-winning jazz outfits – Bokanté (founded by Michael League of the multicultural New York-based group Snarky Puppy) and Metropole Orkest (the jazz and pop orchestra whose chief conductor Jules Buckley had previously collaborated with Snarky Puppy in 2016) – released What Heat on 28th September 2018 for...
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...
