Archie Shepp & Jason Moran: Let
My People Go| Friday 12 November | Barbican
London premiere
of this intimate interchange and chemistry between two jazz virtuosos.
Saxophone player, composer, pianist, singer, musical and political mastermind Archie Shepp and modern jazz icon, pianist, composer and multidisciplinary artist Jason Moran bring their shared devotion for the African American cultural tradition, identity and history into this musical conversation.
Daniel Casimir | Friday 12 November |
Purcell Room
The award-winning bassist and
Serious Take Five alum Daniel Casimir has become a regular fixture across the
UK jazz scene, providing his heavyweight upright sound for the likes
of Nubya Garcia, Ashley Henry, Camilla George, and Binker Golding.
His debut full length album
due out later this year is a celebration of Black British Culture and a
critique of the genres, labels and stereotypes which have traditionally been
placed upon Black musicians. Daniel’s EFG London Jazz
Festival show will be shaped around this new music.
Gwenifer Raymond| Friday
12 November | Kings
Place
Hailing from the Welsh valleys, guitarist/multi-
'It makes for the perfect first gig back:
transporting, beautiful, intimate and intense.’ (★★★★★
Guardian)
Black
Midi + Moor Mother| Friday 12 November (10.30pm) | Queen
Elizabeth Hall Concrete Lates
A special late-night Concrete Lates event
as part of Pitchfork Music Festival London in collaboration with EFG London
Jazz Festival. Live performances from breakthrough innovative London-based
art-rock band Black Midi with support from the incomparable Moor Mother, plus
DJs.
Robocobra Quartet + Archipelago
| Saturday 13 November | Kings Place
The award-winning
UK trio Archipelago return to the Festival following the launch of
their new album ‘Echoes to the Sky’. Fronted by composer
and multi-instrumentalist Faye MacCalman and completed by John Pope and
Christian Alderson, Archipelago hails from North East of England’s
creative underground music scene.
Comprising
Tom Taboroi and Peter Howard on saxophone, Nathan Rodgers on
electric bass and drummer-vocalist Chris
Ryan, Robocobra Quartet’s music is described as ‘a cunning marriage of
jazz, spoken word and punk’ by
Quietus. Their unmatched live performances channel moments of
joy and playfulness, and periods of intense fury.
Laufey | Saturday 13 November |
Purcell Room
Singer-songwriter Laufey blends
sophisticated jazz melodies and slow-burning R&B grooves. Inspired by a
musical family, she took up piano and cello early on. Her teenagerhood muses
were Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
During her prestigious Presidential
Scholarship at the Berklee College of Music, she began writing her own songs and
performing a mix of originals and vintage classics on online
platforms, earning support from Billie Eilish and Willow Smith.
Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble | Sunday
14 November | Purcell Room
Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble is an
experimental big band project composed of some of the most experienced
Portuguese jazz and classical musicians, created and led by the composer
Marco Barroso.
L.U.M.E.’s music combines written
composition with improvisation, and reaches from funk to textural music, from
boogie woogie to impressionist environments… with a
Zappa-esque twist! They are undoubtedly one of the
most exceptional big bands in Europe today and EFG London Jazz
Festival is extremely proud to present their debut performance on these shores.
Aynur | Sunday 14 November | Barbican
Aynur
is the most prominent Kurdish singer of our times. Her impressive voice and
extraordinary musical narration represent the music heritage of her
cultural roots to the world.
‘Impressive
musicianship dominated by Aynur’s emotional, versatile vocals - switching from
delicate to powerful and intense passages’ (★★★★★ Guardian)
Aynur’s
success has led to her collaborating with a wide range of acclaimed artists
including Yo-Yo Ma, Kayhan Kalhor, Javier Limón,
Kinan Azmeh and the NDR Big Band.
Marcel Khalifé and Bachar
Mar-Khalifé - Mahmoud,
Marcel and I |
Monday 15 November | Barbican
Marcel Khalife and Bachar
Mar-Khalife join together in performance to celebrate Marcel
Khalife's lifetime of music and his work on Palestinian
poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Bachar Mar-Khalifé is a French Lebanese singer, composer and
multi-instrumentalist. Born in war-torn Lebanon, he is the son of the revered
oud virtuoso and composer Marcel Khalifé, an Arab cultural
icon. Bachar has collaborated on many projects that fuse jazz,
Arab musics, electronica and hip-hop with artists as diverse as Bojan Z,
Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano and Murcof.
Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble |
Monday 15 November | EartH
The music and
dance collective Black Monument Ensemble present their new album
NOW on International Anthem, in their highly anticipated first London
show.
Galvanized
by Chicago-based multi-media artist/activist
Damon Locks’ conceptualizing, poeticizing, and guiding
vision, Black Monument Ensemble is a vibrant collective of artists,
musicians, singers, and dancers from all facets of the diverse wellspring
of Black artistic excellence in Chicago, bringing their unique perspectives and
experiences to uplifting, anthemic, and highly animated musical
performance.
Shai Maestro | Monday 15 November |
Cadogan Hall
Following
the release of his sixth album Human on ECM, with drummer
Ofri Nehemya, bassist Jorge Roeder and trumpeter Philip Dizack,
pianist and composer Shai Maestro brings his inspiring sound to the EFG London
Jazz Festival. With his unique personal identity and musical fluidity
Maestro is taking the music forward while also respecting its sense of
tradition.
‘Hearing
Shai Maestro is like awakening to a new world.’ (All About Jazz)
‘Expressions
of joy, introspective thoughts and heightened intensity all come to the fore’ (Downbeat)
Avishai Cohen + Nikki Yeoh’s
Café Oran | Tuesday 16 November | Barbican
Following a sold-out show in EFG
London Jazz Festival 2018, we’re delighted to welcome back the internationally
acclaimed bassist and composer Avishai Cohen.
Avishai has his reputation as one of the
world’s sought-after bassists; but it is as a composer that his musical
statement has grown extensively, attracting large live audiences, listeners and
passionate fans. With this new trio line-up featuring pianist Elchin
Shirinov and drummer Noam David, Avishai will be presenting his latest
trio album ‘Arvoles‘.
The opening set will feature Nikki Yeoh’s Café Oran trio project which
celebrates the music of Maurice El Médioni, combining his music with her
own compositions.
Cécile McLorin Salvant | Tuesday 16
November | Cadogan Hall
Two-time GRAMMY®
Award-winner Cécile McLorin Salvant returns to
the Festival with her new quintet featuring Marvin Sewell on guitar, Glenn
Zaleski on piano, Keito Ogawa on percussion and Alexa Tarantino on alto
saxophone.
Cécile McLorin Salvant is regarded as a singular
and fearless voice in music today. With her remarkable vocal technique and
on-stage persona, she performs rich interpretations
of familiar songs and rare treasures.
London Third
Stream: London Sinfonietta | Wednesday 17 November | Queen Elizabeth
Hall
The energy of
jazz meets the virtuosity of contemporary classical: four stars of the London
jazz scene premiere new, genre-defying ensemble pieces. Evoking the “third
stream” which lies between classical and jazz, exciting new commissions by Sh
Steam Down |
Wednesday 17 November | The Albany
Award-winning
collective Steam Down return to the Festival.
Hailing
from South East London and founded by multi-instrumentalist, composer
and producer Ahnansé, Steam Down is an artist collective, weekly
event and music community based in Deptford which has quickly become a
household name in London’s music scene. Formed in 2017, it has since become the
bedrock for a community of all ages, one in which culture was at the foreground,
genre was demystified, and pretentiousness was left at the door.
Ishmael
Ensemble| Wednesday 17 November | Jazz Café
The
Bristol-based collective are an explosive new force in the UK jazz scene. Led
by producer and saxophonist Pete Cunningham, the group broadly experiments
within the realms of jazz and electronics but boasts a diverse range of
influences in defining its sound.
Jasper Høiby - Planet B |
Thursday 18 November | Purcell Room
Over the past
decade, Danish double bassist Jasper Høiby has become renowned for his
fearlessly expressive sound, charismatic stage presence, and distinct
compositional prowess – with his power trio Phronesis, his group Fellow
Creatures and most recently new trio Planet B with young British
saxophonist Josh Arcoleo and adventurous French drummer Marc Michel.
Planet
B’s new music takes Høiby’s compositional skills into uncharted
territory, combining the dynamism and warmth of his acoustic tones with
expansive electronic soundscapes.
Kaki King | Thursday 18 November |
Kings Place
Brooklyn-based
composer and guitarist Kaki King is considered one of the world’s greatest
living guitarists, known both for her technical mastery and for her constant
quest to push the boundaries of the instrument.
Jason Yarde's ACOUTASTiC BOMBASTiC|
Friday 19 November | Purcell Room
ACOUTASTiC BOMBASTiC is
a large ensemble featuring some of the UK's finest multi-instrumentalists and
musical mavericks. Helmed by composer, arranger, producer and Musical Director
Jason Yarde
Within the
ranks of the ensemble lurks a saxophone quartet,
a string ensemble and a choir, that can collectively groove,
float, swing and potentially travel the globe from one measure to the
next. They will be premiering new explorations as a 10+ piece ensemble with
a host of collaborators to be revealed.
The Westbrook Blake
- settings of the poetry of William Blake by Mike Westbrook | Friday
19 November | Cadogan Hall
We celebrate
Mike Westbrook's 85th birthday year by bringing back to the concert hall what the IoS called
"perhaps the greatest work in all British jazz".
The
Westbrook Blake (also
known in different versions as Glad Day and Bright As Fire)
is one of Mike Westbrook's most joyous and powerful works. This concert
features the two original singers, Kate Westbrook and Phil Minton: Mike
Westbrook leads his own band with a choir directed by Paul Ayres.
Piazzolla x100 Quartet with
Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla| Friday 19 November | Wigmore Hall
An authentic homage to Tango luminary Astor
Piazzolla's legacy, on the occasion of his first centenary, Piazzolla
x100 is more than a tribute, a celebration of his music.
Featuring his grandson Daniel "Pipi"
Piazzolla on drums, project’s musical director Federico Lechner on piano,
Claudio Constantini on bandoneon and additional arrangements, and Antonio
Miguel on double bass, this concert unleashes the jazzy soul of the Argentinian
genius, taking Tango through improvisation and exquisitely crafted rework.
Soweto
Kinch & London Symphony Orchestra: The Black Peril | Friday 19 November | Barbican The Black Peril is a dynamic work by Soweto Kinch, inspired by the
sounds of ragtime, proto-jazz, West Indian folk music and the classical works
of black composers of the period. It revisits a time of momentous
social change, also exploring connecting strands to modern forms of dance music
including hip hop and trap.
The
premiere of this new work took place in EFG London Jazz Festival in 2019 as a
co-commission by Serious, London Symphony Orchestra and supported as a part of
Help Musicians UK’s Giant Steps scheme and Cockayne Grant for the
Arts. The new orchestral version arranged and developed by Soweto Kinch
and LSO will be premiered on this occasion.
Charles Lloyd + Nérija | Satur
In this concert
Charles Lloyd will be accompanied by a powerful band featuring Gerald Clayton
on piano, Reuben Rogers on double-bass and Kendrick Scott on drums, he performs
music from a career spanning over six decades.
Opening set from
septet Nérija - taking their pulse from myriad genres - hip hop
to afrobeat and township music, European classical to soul - a defiantly
multi-faceted and unique sound, drawing as much from Georgia Anne Muldrow as
they do Arthur Russell, Duke Ellington and Eric Lau.
Brad Mehldau Trio | Sunday 21
November | Barbican
Over the last two decades, pianist Brad
Mehldau has forged a path which embodies the essence of jazz exploration,
classical romanticism, and pop allure. His unquestionable leadership across
idioms has grown as he has transformed the paradigm of jazz and classical
performance – performing here with his trio.
Showcasing his diversity
and undeniable voice, Mehldau has also had notable collaborations with Pat
Metheny, Anne Sofie von Otter, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Renee Fleming,
Britten Sinfonia, Kevin Hays, Jeremy Denk and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
With his rigorous intellect feeding an inspired range of expression and
intensity, Mehldau leaves his worldwide audience eager for his next foray.
Fusing Forces: Yazz Ahmed
and the BBC Concert Orchestra| Sunday 21 November | Queen Elizabeth Hall
Trailblazing
trumpeter Yazz Ahmed joins forces with the BBC Concert Orchestra at
the Festival.
The
British-Bahraini performer and composer brings her boundless musical ingenuity
to a collaboration with the orchestra and its Grammy-winning Principal
Conductor, Bramwell Tovey. The concert presents new orchestrations of Ahmed’s
evocative, colourful works, joined by the artist and her quintet.
‘This is
clearly one of the most important pieces of music in any genre to appear this
year’ (Glide
Magazine)
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