Olivia Dean 'Messy' Tour: Dazzling, Magical, Jazz-Soul Pop
Photo via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC BY-2.0 DEED). Ironically, Olivia Dean’s Messy Tour was anything but messy. Her team...
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Leda Schenke Gonis
Jan 195 min read
‘Imagine the Sound’ At Barbican Cinema: Disdain For The Known
A quick search on Google defines free jazz as an ‘improvised style of jazz characterised by the absence of set chord patterns or time...
Oisín McGilloway
Nov 8, 20234 min read
In Conversation With Matthew Barrington, Curator of 'Jazz On Screen' At The Barbican
Festival Curator Matthew Barrington shares the philosophy behind programming ‘Jazz on Screen’, the selection of films screening at...
Akane Hayashi
Nov 24, 20225 min read
In Conversation with Monty Alexander: On Jazz, Bob Marley, His New Album and the Importance of Music
Photo by Schorle via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0) Born in 1944, Monty Alexander is an internationally appreciated jazz...
Josh Aberman
Feb 18, 20222 min read
GoGo Penguin Enrapture Audience At The Barbican
Photo by Sorrel Higgins It is fitting that one of GoGo Penguin’s songs is titled ‘Transient State’, as, during their Barbican performance...
Piers Nihan-Bowen
Dec 6, 20212 min read
Soweto Kinch and The London Symphony Orchestra’s Scathing Orchestral Takedown of Modern-Day Britain
Image Credit: Mark Allan The London Symphony Orchestra is no stranger to ground-breaking collaborations. Just last year, they released...
Dong Liu
Dec 6, 20212 min read
Jazz and The City: Film Screenings at EFG London Jazz Festival
Image from Young Man With A Horn, provided by Barbican Centre From the 13th to the 18th of November, a total of seven films were screened...
Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar and Callista Saputra
Sep 3, 20206 min read
Craziest Thing Happened in Our Flat – An Interview with Ardhito Pramono about Global Impact, Film, a
This piece originally appeared in the Strand Magazine's Summer 2020 Issue. It’s 2am on a Tuesday night. We’re scouring Spotify for a...
Oliwia Majchrowska
May 30, 20203 min read
The Eddy — an off-centre jazz scene drowning in multiple plots
Set in a rough Parisian suburb, The Eddy portrays a milieu of musicians whose fates intertwine as they enter a band and get together to...
Margarita Bassova
Dec 18, 20182 min read
Kamaal Williams at Electric Brixton - 06.12.2018
Despite the incessant echoes that jazz’s era is over, Kamaal Williams has become a predominant figure in the new-jazz wave flourishing in...
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