Still wearing my jazz hat, and a very fine titfer it is too.
The (virtual) festival started on Monday 16th and finishes on Sunday 22nd November.
Lots of free online YouTube and Mixcloud concerts and if you follow the site link that hopefully is somewhere in this post, you will find further links to concerts and a pair of extensive YouTube and Spotify “taster” playlists.
In past years I have tried to get to at least some (finances and free time permitting) LJF concerts. Tickets for the big names always used to sell out almost immediately and tended to be outside my price range anyway. There are less US stars than usual this year but plenty of homegrown and European talent available.
Dig in or ignore. Your choice.
The 2020 EFG London Jazz Festival Online.
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Also available via that link are some performances from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Autumn Jazz Festival, which ran from 9th-16th November.
Judi Jackson on Saturday, featuring my pal’s lad on drums. It’ll be aces.
Spoiler alert: it was.
The Cambridge Jazz Festival also now underway – lots of free streaming of gigs over the next week or so. It’s been a great festival the last few years – always an interesting mix of not so big names from overseas and rising British talent at some quirky venues.
Might give the Rob Luft/string quartet on Saturday a listen if I remember – a busy chap this year with his own solo album and interesting work with Elina Duni and Ellen Andrew Wang. He’s quite some guitar player.
https://www.cambridgejazzfestival.info/events