EFG London Jazz Festival: The Tomasz Bura Group

Photo via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC BY-2.0 DEED). Ironically, Olivia Dean’s Messy Tour was anything but messy. Her team...

A quick search on Google defines free jazz as an ‘improvised style of jazz characterised by the absence of set chord patterns or time...

Festival Curator Matthew Barrington shares the philosophy behind programming ‘Jazz on Screen’, the selection of films screening at...

Photo by Schorle via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0) Born in 1944, Monty Alexander is an internationally appreciated jazz...

Photo by Sorrel Higgins It is fitting that one of GoGo Penguin’s songs is titled ‘Transient State’, as, during their Barbican performance...

Image Credit: Mark Allan The London Symphony Orchestra is no stranger to ground-breaking collaborations. Just last year, they released...

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...

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...

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...