Byrd Out presents Walthamstow Jazz Festival 2019, in association with Adnams, bringing together legendary and cutting edge talent.
For over a quarter of a century, the James Taylor Quartet has set the standard for the coolest funky acid jazz. With their prolific recording and live schedule, they’ve quietly become a byword for distinguished British creativity.
Red hot rhythms straight from the streets of Eastern Cuba return to Chickenshed this September.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hampton Court Palace Festival. Starting life in 1993 as a classical music event, it has gone on to host top international stars from around the globe and has become an annual fixture in the summer calendar.
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Big band favourite Guy Barker presents a swinging, soulful celebration of big band music from Count Basie to Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Louis Prima with a Christmas twist!
The jazz trumpeter and composer is bringing a host of outstanding international jazz musicians in the form of the Guy Barker Big Band specially expanded for this concert to up to 40 musicians This will be the fourth time he has performed at the Royal Albert Hall with these ensembles, which have been invited to play at the BBC Proms three times since 2012!
Jazz singer and BBC Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal will be co-presenting the evening, and performing as one of several special musical guests.
EFG London Jazz Festival, presented by Barbican Associate Producer Serious, features another great line-up of artists performing at the Barbican and neighbouring venues. This year includes Wordless! on 11 November, an ‘intellectual vaudeville show’, with celebrated cartoonist Art Spiegelman putting on an innovative hybrid of slides, talk, and musical performance created in collaboration with acclaimed jazz composer Phillip Johnston (Barbican Hall, 7:30pm).
Vocalist and samba queen Elza Soares performs an evening of edgy Brazilian music on 13 November (Barbican Hall, 7.30pm), and will be joined on stage by special guest artist, Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter Eska and her band. On 16 November LA-based composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, the multi-talented Miguel Atwood-Ferguson is joined by co-producer Carlos Niño and a 17-piece ensemble to pay tribute to the late American record producer and rapper J Dilla, with Suite for Ma Dukes. (Barbican Hall, 7:30pm)
Returning to the classic Stax label after some five decades, a resurgent William Bell is the soul story of 2016, making a massive impact with his acclaimed new album, This is Where I Live, which will feature in his Jazz Festival performance on 18 November (Barbican Hall, 7:30pm).
Other Festival highlights include pianist Tord Gustavsen in a song project with singer Simin Tander and drummer Jarle Vepestad; saxophonist Joshua Redman and pianist Brad Mehldau who are making their debut as a duo in the UK; Norwegian composer and saxophonist Marius Neset leading an orchestral performance – featuring London Sinfonietta – of music from his forthcoming album; a double bill of musical innovators featuring vocalist and instrumentalist Dhafer Youssef and trumpeter and composer Ambrose Akinmusire, and the Wayne Shorter Quartet reviving music from Shorter’s 50 year career.
