‘A dazzling display across the musical spectrum’ ★★★★★ (The Guardian)
The EFG London Jazz Festival presents 10 days packed full of world-class artists and emerging stars as it celebrates 25 years in 2017. The Festival has a reputation for bringing the best and freshest music to a massive and ever-growing audience in various venues across the capital, with a wide-ranging programme of concerts, commissions, club events, talks, and an expansive learning and participation programme.
Saturday 4 November 2017, 10am & Thursday 16 November 2017, 2.30pm
VENUE: Culford Room at Cadogan Hall
This is a unique collaboration between acclaimed jazz pianist/composer Kate Williams and the Guastalla String Quartet, with repertoire including material by Bill Evans, Cole Porter and A.C. Jobim as well as originals by Williams. The style of writing...
The meeting of Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko – a seminal figure in European jazz since the 1960s - and the cutting-edge New York trio of stellar pianist David Virelles, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gerald Cleaver, produces music that combine...
Michael Wollny + Andreas Schaerer + Vincent Peirani + Emile Parisien and Adam Bałdych with Helge Lien Trio
ACT at 25
Saturday 11 November 2017, 7.30pm
Pianist Michael Wollny, accordionist Vincent Peirani, saxophonist Emile Parisien and the extraordinary vocal gymnastics of Andreas Schaerer – four stand-out individual talents from the ACT Records roster join forces in an all-star quartet that re...
Featuring the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Gil Evans, with the superb Pete Long Orchestra and singers Iain Mackenzie and Georgina Jackson.
Monday 13 November 2017, 2.30pm & Wednesday 15 November 2017, 2.30pm
VENUE: Culford Room at Cadogan Hall
This sophisticated, genre-bending all-star trio sweeps through bluegrass, tango, abstract grooves and shimmering landscapes, delivered with flair and playful abandon.
Mediterranean Gypsies brings together two stunning groups. David Peña Dorantes and his trio are usually just known as 'Dorantes' – he’s the great figure who has created a whole new language of flamenco piano.
Moscow Drug Club… Is a curious musical place where certain elements of 1930’s Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de France, Nuevo Tango & Gypsy Campfire meet, have a few to drink and stagger arm in arm into the darkness of some eastern European cobbled...
Following her Grammy-winning album Made in Brazil, the charismatic pianist and singer Eliane Elias plays a rare London concert with a brand new album Dance of Time blending her Brazilian roots and sensuous, alluring voice with trademark, dynamic i...
Kevin Fitzsimmons Quartet presents ‘Working Day & Night’
Wednesday 15 November 2017, 2.30pm
VENUE: Culford Room at Cadogan Hall
Marking the recent release of his long-awaited new live album recorded on an exhilarating evening at the Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho, singer/songwriter Kevin Fitzsimmons and his top-notch jazz musicians perform their album, Working Day & Night,...
Ben L’Oncle Soul offers a wild celebration of everything that’s thrilling about the classic soul revues, with all their great songs. He grew up listening to Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin, and combines Kanye West-style R&B and Motown groove...
In a career that stretches back to the ’60s, iconic jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater has stood shoulder to shoulder with many of music’s greats like Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins. She brings the sounds of her new album, Memphis… Yes, I’...
With this gig the Oxley-Meier Guitar Project begins its second extensive tour of the year promoting its new double-album, The Colours Of Time – a development from their previous release, Chasing Tales. On both of these albums, Oxley and Meier sh...
Jay Rayner Quartet – A Night of Food and Agony + Peter Horsfall
Friday 17 November 2017, 7.30pm
Restaurant critic, Masterchef judge and long-time jazz pianist Jay Rayner launches his quartet’s first live album A Night of Food and Agony, which brings together songs about food and drink and stories about his mother, agony aunt Claire Rayner.
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The Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra + Southbank Sinfonia
Saturday 18 November 2017, 2.30pm
Miles Davis made many stand-out records in his long career. 1959’s Kind of Blue is arguably his finest – a masterly blend of small band composition and jazz improvisation of the very highest order, it stands today as the biggest selling – an...
Extrovert and engagingly free-spirited, ECM pianist Stefano Bollanilive is a veritable tour-de-force – a musical torrent of improvisation and spontaneous humour, infused with the warmth and humanity of his Italian heritage. His love affair with...
Thelonious Monk at 100 - Concert 1: Brilliant Corners
Sunday 19 November 2017, 2pm
Over three concerts Jonathan Gee, Tony Kofi and very special guest Charles Tolliver lead an all-star ensemble through the complete works of a jazz genius.
Thelonious Monk at 100 - Concert 2: Monk on Blue Note
Sunday 19 November 2017, 4.30pm
Over three concerts Jonathan Gee, Tony Kofi and very special guest Charles Tolliver lead an all-star ensemble through the complete works of a jazz genius.
Thelonious Sphere Monk remains a seminal figure in the evolution of contemporary jazz –...
Thelonious Monk at 100 - Concert 3: Monk at Town Hall 1959
Sunday 19 November 2017, 7.30pm
Over three concerts Jonathan Gee, Tony Kofi and very special guest Charles Tolliver lead an all-star ensemble through the complete works of a jazz genius.
