Royal Festival Hall. 14 June 2024. Part of 2024 Meltdown Curators of the Southbank Centre’s annual, iconic Meltdown Festival have included Grace Jones, Morrissey, David Bowie… For this year’s 29th festival the role is taken by legendary singer and musician, [...]
The UK CLUBNIGHT! at JazzAhead was a highlight of the returned UK presence at JazzAhead this year (*). Having not had a stand or a showcase in recent years, it was such a delight to see artists from the vibrant [...]
Bassist/vocalist’s second album Nature is a Mother is released on 5 April 2024. It “has evolved out of a need to communicate her responses to the world around her through her maturation as a musician and bandleader.” Bass player Charlie [...]
Canadian-born drummer Katie Patterson is a multi-award-winning international performer based in London. She throws her huge energy into a variety of different projects: some with friends, some to educate, some fun and some challenging. Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, drummer [...]
‘Embrace the Now’ is a new show by multi-faceted German musician Ada Morghe who will be at Pizza Express in Holborn on 11th March 2024. Joined by her all-star, favourite band-mates who play on her last three albums, Livingstone Brown [...]
The afternoon performance for Sarah L King’s debut album Fire Horse at Pizza Express Dean Street on 18th February was sold-out, abuzz with many familiar faces, fans old and new looking forward to the captivating performance ahead. The musical journey [...]
Esther Bennett‘s performance at Café POSK on Friday night was a total triumph. She’s a well loved vocal master on the London scene, and her contributions are always innovative and thought provoking. Her dedication to her hometown of Birmingham is a particularly [...]
Samara Joy has only been out of college since May 2021 and at the young age of 24, she has been hailed as the gen-Z voice of jazz. She won the 2019 Sarah Vaughan international Jazz Voice competition, has since [...]
This was Norah Jones‘s first European appearance since 2018. She has always been considered a “jazz” musician probably because she sings and plays the piano and her songs tend to lean into some slightly crunchier chords and harmonies than the [...]
“Among the many moods that Sean calls forth with his music, perhaps joyfulness is the most dominant” wrote one reviewer of Canadian pianist Sean Fyfe’s first album as leader. He has been based in the UK since 2021, and is [...]
