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London Jazz Festival

London Jazz Festival

The London Jazz Festival, produced by Serious in association with BBC Radio 3, is the capital's biggest pan-city music festival, taking place annually in November. The Festival has long been acclaimed for showcasing a heady mix of talent from around the world. Widely acknowledged for delivering world-class artists and emerging stars, the Festival continues to take jazz to a massive audience, in one of UK's landmark music events.

Events in this series

  • Salif Keita

    Royal Festival Hall

    Salif Keita

    Friday 9 November 2012

    The 'golden voice of Africa', Salif Keita has been at the forefront of modern Malian music for many years, and this year's London Jazz Festival sees him return to London for the first time in two y

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    Jazz & Blues | Music

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  • Lucinda Williams

    Royal Festival Hall

    Lucinda Williams

    Saturday 10 November 2012 - Sunday 11 November 2012

    Lucinda Williams returns to London to play two special nights at Royal Festival Hall.

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    Jazz & Blues | Music

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  • Bill Frisell

    Queen Elizabeth Hall

    Bill Frisell

    Monday 12 November 2012

    One of the most original guitarists alive today, Bill Frisell comes to London Jazz Festival with an evening-long suite of original music and accompanying film and staging by Bill Morrison, based on

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    Jazz & Blues | Music

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  • Jan Garbarek

    Royal Festival Hall

    Jan Garbarek Group & Trilok Gurtu

    Tuesday 13 November 2012

    Norway's Jan Garbarek's new band, which features the master Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu, is a fusion act in the true sense.

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    Jazz & Blues | Music

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  • Shabaka Hutchings

    Queen Elizabeth Hall

    Shabaka Hutchings & The BBC Concert Orchestra

    Tuesday 13 November 2012

    In this special one-off BBC Radio 3 commission Shabaka Hutchings, saxophonist, composer, and BBC Radio 3 New Generation artist joins forces with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

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    Jazz & Blues | Music | Orchestral

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  • Sarah Jane Morris

    Purcell Room

    Sarah Jane Morris & Enrico Mellozzi

    Wednesday 14 November 2012

    Famed for her association with The Communards in the mid-1980s, and infamous for a banned rendition of the classic 'Me and Mrs Jones', Sarah Jane Morris has carved a distinctive voice through her d

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    Jazz & Blues | Music

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  • Paco de Lucia

    Royal Festival Hall

    Paco de Lucia

    Friday 16 November 2012

    Paco De Lucia, the grand master of flamenco, returns to London for the first time in two years.

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    Jazz & Blues | Music

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  • John Surman

    Queen Elizabeth Hall

    John Surman

    Sunday 18 November 2012

    Composer and multi-instrumentalist John Surman has been a leading figure in European jazz since the 1960s, his transcendent music drawing not only on jazz but also folk, electronica and the English

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    Jazz & Blues | Music

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