EFG London Jazz Festival
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: John Scofield
Friday 13 November 2009
Friday 13 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Jazz | Music | Talks | Jazz & Blues | Music | Talks & Debate
12346
Free
The popular Hear Me Talkin' To Ya series returns for a fourth year of informal, informative interviews with some of the stars of the London Jazz Festival in front of a lively audience of jazz fans.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
John Scofield's Piety Street
Friday 13 November 2009
Friday 13 November 2009
Blues | EFG London Jazz Festival | Gospel | Jazz | Music | Serious | Jazz & Blues | Music
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From his career defining stint with Miles Davis, to his acclaimed solo projects and collaborations with the likes of Joe Lovano or cult jam band Medeski, Martin and Wood guitarist John Scofield is unquestionably a modern master of the guitar
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Purcell Room
Astillero
Friday 13 November 2009
Friday 13 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Folk & World | Music | Serious | Tango | World | Jazz & Blues | Music
11737
Advanced Booking
Buenos Aires' hottest new tango troupe brings incredible energy and excitement to this deeply passionate traditional music, all without the aid of electronics.
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Foyer Bar - level 2
Jonathan Geyevu
Friday 13 November 2009
Friday 13 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Free | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music | Friday Lunch
12344
Free
Geyevu brings a distinctively spacious, gracefully melodic approach to the piano combined with a jazz-influenced singer/songwriter style.
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The Front Room at QEH
Leah Gough-Cooper's Human Equivalent
Friday 13 November 2009
Friday 13 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Free | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music | Friday Tonic
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Free
A graduate of both Berklee and the New England Conservatory, Scots altoist Gough Cooper possesses quicksilver solo skills and compositional maturity beyond her years.
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Royal Festival Hall
Roberto Fonseca + Mayra Andrade
Saturday 14 November 2009
Saturday 14 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Jazz | Music | Serious | World | Jazz & Blues | Music | Folk & World
11738
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The Buena Vista Social Club piano prodigy - who made the daunting task of replacing the late great Ruben Gonzalez look easy - Roberto Fonseca has now emerged as a fully fledged solo artist.
The Clore Ballroom
Polish Showcase
Saturday 14 November 2009
Saturday 14 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Free | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music
12349
Free
A showcase of the best in new Polish jazz, featuring Pawel Kaczmarczyk, Grzegorz Karnas plus one other artist to be confirmed.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes
Saturday 14 November 2009
Saturday 14 November 2009
Advanced Booking | EFG London Jazz Festival | Jazz | Music | Serious | Trumpet | Jazz & Blues | Music
11724
Advanced Booking
Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has forged a distinguished international career, through work with Krystof Komeda, Cecil Taylor, Jack DeJohnette and David Murray and as a celebrated solo artist.
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Purcell Room
World Sanguine Report + trioVD
Saturday 14 November 2009
Saturday 14 November 2009
Advanced Booking | EFG London Jazz Festival | Jazz | Music | Rock | Rock & Pop | Jazz & Blues | Music
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Part demonic vaudeville, part psychotic big band, raggedly brilliant singer Andrew Plummer leads his lopsided jazz noir project
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
John Surman Masterclass
Saturday 14 November 2009
Saturday 14 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Jazz | Music | Serious | Talks | Talks & Debate | Jazz & Blues | Music
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John Surman gives an insight into his art, career and technical approach through discussion and performance.
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The Front Room at QEH
Way In To The Way Out - An Introduction to Jazz
Saturday 14 November 2009
Saturday 14 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Free | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music
12348
Free
Two of the country's hottest emerging young jazz talents, Michael Mwenso and Jay Phelps, explore the history of the music from the perspective of a younger generation.
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The Front Room at QEH
Introduction To Polish Jazz
Saturday 14 November 2009
Saturday 14 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Free | Jazz | Jazz & Blues | Music | Music
12350
Free
Following on from this afternoon's showcase in the Clore Ballroom, the editor of Poland's Jazz Forum Magazine, Pawel Brodowski, talks about jazz's past, present and future in Poland.
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Royal Festival Hall
Melody Gardot
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
11751
Advanced Booking
Hugely popular at last year's London Jazz Festival, Melody Gardot's smouldering voice is perfect for her soul-drenched take on the blues with a hint of jazz steeped in the coolness of the midnight hour.
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The Clore Ballroom
Three Hours With Loop
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Free | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music
12365
Free
The Loop Collective draws together an astonishing variety of creative musicians, all striving to create quality and imaginative sound and ideas.
The Clore Ballroom
Voicelab Jazz Day: The Climax
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Jazz | Literature & Spoken Word | Voicelab | Literature & Spoken Word | Jazz & Blues | Voicelab Welcomes
13721
Free
Over 100 singers come together to perform a short set created across the course of a day in an intensive Voicelab project, led by artists Pete Churchill, Natalie Williams and Guillermo Rozenthaler.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Robert Glasper
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
Advanced Booking | EFG London Jazz Festival | Free Jazz | Jazz | Music | Piano | Jazz & Blues | Music
12339
Hip-hop-influenced pianist Robert Glasper follows the likes of McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock as the Blue Note label's latest piano star to push the classic trio format into uncharted territory.
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Purcell Room
Baaba Maal in conversation with Jon Snow
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
Africa | EFG London Jazz Festival | Music | Serious | Talks & Debate | World | Music | Folk & World
13639
Following his performance in Ornette Coleman's Meltdown, Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal returns to Southbank Centre as part of the London Jazz Festival to discuss Africa in the 21st century, its challenges and its aspirations - and also to play a few songs.
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Purcell Room
Vijay Iyer
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
Advanced Booking | EFG London Jazz Festival | Experimental | Jazz | Music | Piano | Serious | Jazz & Blues | Music
12334
Innovative pianist Iyer has brought a thoughtful, far-sighted approach to bear on contemporary jazz.
The Front Room at QEH
The Voicelab Jazz Day
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Free | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music | Voicelab Welcomes
12351
Free
Inspired by some of the world's great singers featured in this year's festival at Southbank Centre, this day-long event offers the opportunity for participants to deepen their understanding of the jazz voice, exploring ideas of harmony and improvisation and focusing in particular on interpretation of song material, and how to keep it fresh in the 21st century.
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The Front Room at QEH
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: Vijay Iyer
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
EFG London Jazz Festival | Jazz | Music | Talks | Jazz & Blues | Music | Talks & Debate
12352
Free
The popular Hear Me Talkin' To Ya series returns for a fourth year of informal, informative interviews with some of the stars of the London Jazz Festival in front of a lively audience of jazz fans.
