This year at the EFG London Jazz Festival two institutions of jazz are meeting for one special show. The legendary back catalogue of Blue Note Records, one of the most important labels in jazz history will be reimagined by a collection of artists from the orbit of modern jazz community,...
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Boiler Room and Total Refreshment Centre are uniting at the Barbican Centre on Saturday to tell the story of London’s current jazz scene as it still evolves. Together with thirty local musicians, they will be narrating the untold tale of the rise of the cross-cultural sound of blended Caribbean, reggae,...
Despite its recent vicissitudes, Total Refreshment Centre is loudly and proudly turning seven this March. Seven years spent discovering, spreading and staging some of the finest music (jazz in particular) from all over the world. Since 2012, the former Hackney Social Club has become a meeting point for the London...
Still cerebrating how to celebrate the last night of 2018 and the first morning of 2019? We are here to help with a selection of some of the best NYE parties happening in London and the rest of UK. Whether you’re willing to spend the 31st December dancing, revelling in...
More than just a band, Sons of Kemet is a supergroup. Formed by some of the finest musicians enriching the London music scene (Shabaka Hutchings, Theon Cross, Tom Skinner and Eddie Hick), each of the four members of the quartet has had a hand (in the form of a sax,...
When it comes to Yelfris Valdés and his countless music projects, you can be sure of two things: their quality and ability to surprise you. No matter whether they are more Latin, Afro-Cuban, electronic, traditional, jazz-oriented, or just fundamentally expressing their author – like the upcoming debut EP titled The...
February is Carnival season across the world and there’s no better way to celebrate it than a colourful, rhythmic, and high-spirited party like the ones that our friends at Movimientos have organised. We are talking about their renowned Love Carnival series. The next appointment, which will also be the first...
In 2017 the British jazz scene started taking centre stage and 2018 is likely to see the genre become the rising star of contemporary music with a long-awaited hip-pumping invasion. Brownswood Recordings have brought together their hotly tipped acts from a three-day recording session which produced We Out Here. The...
Total Refreshment Centre will go fully Brazilian on the 4th of November with a tribute to the unbridled creativity of Hermeto Pascoal. To celebrate the re-release of Viajando Com O Som, a lost 1976 recording of the Brazilian jazz and Forró master, Far Out Recordings have organized a Brazilian-inspired night,...
Even for a music scene as varied and unpredictable as London’s, Vula Viel are an exception. It might already be surprising to meet, listen to and enjoy a band comprised of London born and bred musicians playing traditional Ghanaian music. If you add the fact that they play that music...
