EFG London Jazz Festival 2013 Souvenir Magazine

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Premieres, talks, talent development, family events, 21 commissions, workshops. Superb free concerts right across London. It’s our 21st year, and London’s biggest city-wide music festival is celebrating in style.

At the heart of the EFG London Jazz Festival is the music and the audience. This year’s programme is in large part about celebrating the legacy of jazz; John McLaughlin, Archie Shepp, Carla Bley, Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Hugh Masekela and Stan Tracey are just a handful of Festival artists who have had a profound infl uence on the evolution of the genre (as, of course, has the incomparable Wayne Shorter, whose 80th birthday we are marking with an exuberant day-long celebration). But it’s also about tomorrow’s greats, and performances from artists such as Sons of Kemet, Pedrito Martinez, Nik Bärtsch and Laura Jurd promise to shine with the creative energy that marks today’s jazz generation.

Since its earliest days, the Festival has always been about taking jazz and the music that surrounds it to the widest possible audience. This year we are embarking on Looking East, a journey to uncover the jazz being born through Eastern Europe and the Middle East to India. You can learn all about it – and the history of the festival, not to mention the unmissable gems in this year’s programme – in these pages. So read on, enjoy, and we’ll see you there.The EFG London Jazz Festival team

IN THIS GUIDE

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EFG London Jazz Festival would like to thank The Wyndeham Group, printing partner of Think Publishing, for their sponsorship of this publication.

2013 BEN L’ONCLE SOULWednesday 4 DecemberScala

2014LUDOVICO EINAUDIWednesday 22 JanuaryHammersmith Apollo

AHMAD JAMALMonday 27 JanuaryRoyal Festival Hall

ZARA McFARLANESaturday 8 FebruaryXOYO

YOAVSunday 9 FebruaryPurcell Room

PENGUIN CAFEFriday 14 & Saturday 15 FebruaryUnion Chapel

GET THE BLESSINGWednesday 5 MarchVillage Underground

TORD GUSTAVSENSunday 9 MarchBarbican / Milton Court Concert Hall

ROBERT GLASPER & FRIENDSWednesday 12 MarchHammersmith Apollo

SALIF KEITA: ACOUSTICTuesday 8 AprilBarbican

CHICK COREA: SOLOMonday 19 MayBarbican

PAT METHENY UNITY GROUPWednesday 11 JuneHammersmith Apollo

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20 Looking east

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34 Q&A

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SeriousFor the latest news about all Serious-produced shows, please visit www.serious.org.uk

Listings illustration: Chris Keegan

AmerıcaRICHARD HAVERS SHARES THE INSPIRATION BEHIND HIS RECENT BOOK ON THE STORY OF VERVE RECORDS

IT WAS AT THE TAIL END OF 1955 that Norman Granz decided to form Verve Records. He did so for Ella Fitzgerald; he already managed her career, but felt he knew how to make the kind of records the singer should be making – and history has proved he was right.

But the story of Verve begins a decade or more before, rooted in Granz’s ambition to take jazz out of the clubs and into concert halls, as well as in Clef and Norgran, the record labels he had been running for several years.

On 2 July 1944, the 25-year-old Granz staged his fi rst Jazz at the Philharmonic concert. From the outset, Granz had a clear vision of what he wanted to achieve by taking jazz into more “respectable” music venues such as New York City’s Carnegie Hall. Besides introducing the genre to an expanding audience, Granz was fi ghting racial segregation (a fi ght that cost him both professionally and personally). And as the Jazz at the Philharmonic tours grew more extensive, Granz developed the template for modern touring that is replicated today by just about every kind of artist,

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NORMAN GRANZ DEVELOPED THE TEMPLATE FOR TOURING THAT IS REPLICATED TODAY ACROSS EVERY MUSICAL GENRE

across jazz, rock and every other musical genre.

a golden ageFor Granz, starting a record company was a way of expanding his Jazz at the Philharmonic franchise – but almost immediately the artists appearing in his concerts recognised the opportunity to make studio recordings. By the late 1940s and early 1950s the artists Granz recorded for his Clef and Norgran labels included Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Count Basie and Stan Getz. Soon after founding Verve, Granz placed Clef and Norgran under the umbrella of his new company, a move that gave

SEVENTY YEARS AFTER GRANZ DECIDED TO TAKE JAZZ OUT OF THE CLUBS AND INTO THE CONCERT HALLS, THE MUSICAL REVOLUTION HE FOUNDED CONTINUES TO FLOURISH

his fl edgling label a roster of artists and recordings representing much of the best of jazz’s golden era. New artists were signed to Verve and, as the company expanded, many new fans discovered jazz.

In 1960, Granz sold Verve to MGM Records. Soon Creed Taylor was running the label and taking it in a new direction; with records by Getz and Charlie Byrd, Getz and João Gilberto, and of course, Gilberto’s wife Astrud, the label benefi ted enormously from the bossa nova jazz craze sweeping in from South America. Jazz was still cool, but it was also in the charts, and more popular than ever. Verve signed new artists, including Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery, who

became further conduits for converts – and the label helped spread the jazz word around the world.

Putting it into wordsIt’s an oft-repeated notion that jazz is America’s one true art form. On the inner bag of every Verve long-playing

record released during the 1960s was written: “The Jazz of America is on Verve”. It follows, therefore, that “the sound of America” was on every record issued by the label. That, at least, is the reasoning that inspired Verve: The Sound of America. The book includes a programme of reissues, beginning with a fi ve-CD box set that traces the story of the label through 100 of its single releases. There’s also a 10-CD box set that is the very fi rst

full career retrospective of Ella Fitzgerald – from her release with Chick Webb’s Orchestra in 1935 to her very last recordings in 1989 – and a collector’s series of 12 vinyl reissues in the original album art, including LPs by Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson and Billie Holiday.

jazz greats suchas charlie parkerrecorded onverve records

the full circleVerve is now part of Universal Music Group. Under the leadership of David Foster, it not only reissues from its treasury some of the great jazz records, but also thrives as a label for modern artists: Diana Krall, Trombone Shorty, Lizz Wright and Smokey Robinson, to name just a few. Seventy years after Granz decided to take jazz out of the clubs and into the concert halls, the musical revolution he founded

continues to fl ourish. Nat King Cole was among the artists who

appeared at the very fi rst Jazz at the Philharmonic

concert in 1944; in 2013, one of Verve’s releases has been an album by Nat King Cole’s daughter: Natalie Cole en Español. The wheel has turned full circle.

100 of its single releases. There’s also a 10-CD box set that is the very fi rst

full career retrospective of Ella Fitzgerald – from her release with Chick Webb’s Orchestra in 1935 to her very last recordings in 1989 – and a collector’s series of 12 vinyl reissues in the original album art, including LPs by Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson and Billie Holiday.

richard Havers’new book containsoriginal album artfrom artists suchas Billie Holiday

Verve: The Sound of America is out now, published by Thames & Hudson

When and whereCelebrating Jazz at the PhilharmonicSUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER, 7.30PMBarbican/Milton Court Concert Hall

Devised by über-producer Norman Granz back in the 1940s, Jazz at the Philharmonic brought together the music’s mainstream with the radical forces of bebop, leading to the evolution of a jazz record label, Verve, and a touring network that took jazz into concert venues and on to festival stages.

This concert centres on James Pearson’s trio, and galvanises a cast from the full spectrum of today’s scene to baptise the Barbican’s new hall, Milton Court.

Celebrating Jazz at the Philharmonic will feature a 2013 response to the essence of Granz’s vision, where the spirit of the jam session fi nds its way to the concert hall.

Special guests include Peter King, Nigel Hitchcock and Byron Wallen, and French pianist Jacky Terrasson will make a long overdue UK appearance.

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the Jazz Week continued for some years, and in 1992 the decision was made to create a stand-alone festival, celebrated not just in Camden but across the whole of the capital. The ambition from the start was to build on the achievements with Camden and extend those throughout the city, with an event that was international in scope, to celebrate the massive role that the

jazz community plays throughout the year in London.

From the very beginning, the London Jazz Festival wasn’t just a festival in London – it was about London. “Supporting the image of London as a jazz city was important,” acknowledges Cumming. There was also, he adds, “a sense of history – jazz has successfully inhabited the city for decades, interacting and responding to

the diff erent communities that defi ne London’s social and cultural fabric.” Twenty-one years on, London is as much a star of the Festival as the music; venues are chosen to span the capital, from Streatham to Highgate and Richmond to Hackney Wick.

There’s also a notable combination of establishment venues – the city’s major concert spaces at the Southbank Centre,

Barbican and Wigmore Hall, for instance – and newer, fresher locations. Many, such as Shoreditch’s XOYO and Village Underground, aren’t the kinds of places you’d typically associate with jazz, but that in itself is important. Underpinning the Festival from the beginning has been a kind of fl uidity; a willingness to embrace all aspects of the genre, including the new and the more tangential, and to keep doing so as the genre continues

“CAMDEN EPITOMISED A CHANGING JAZZ UNIVERSE, REFLECTING A NEW ENERGY”

AS THE EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL COMES OF AGE, ROSEANNE HANLEY ASKS THE DIRECTORS OF SERIOUS TO REFLECT ON JUST HOW FAR IT’S COME

years and counting

IT ALL BEGAN IN CAMDEN, in the 1970s, when the organisers of the borough’s well-regarded annual festival decided to append a Jazz Week to their programme.

It was an unqualifi ed success, running every spring at famous Camden landmarks – the Roundhouse, Shaw Theatre, Logan Hall, Bloomsbury Theatre – and for many years appearing for a second time in the autumn, too. While household names from across the Atlantic tended to play the more established Capital Jazz Festival, the Camden event looked largely to Europe, and especially homegrown UK artists. It had an active commissioning policy; many of those making their debuts in Camden went on to number among the genre’s greats. As John Cumming, one of the three directors of Festival producer Serious, remembers, “Camden epitomised a changing jazz universe, refl ecting the new energy emerging from the UK and European scene alongside the African-American tradition of the music.”

That philosophy served it well. Although the Camden festival itself had ceased to be by the early 1990s,

from left to right:david jones,claire Whitakerand john cumming,directors of theefg london jazzfestival 2013

camden’s jazz Weekfocused on the musicof local jazz starssuch as london-borncourtney pine

“It’s personally provided me opportunities to play in front of audiences for the fi rst time and

support artists like David Sanborn. The city becomes alive with jazz and it’s an important connection

point for artists.”SOWETO KINCH, MUSICIAN

“From the tiniest bar to the biggest concert hall, there is something for everyone. The Festival is exciting… I love it.”

IAN SHAW, VOCALIST

“The Festival is one of my favourite times of the year.

It’s reached 21 and is getting bigger and better all the time,

giving a great platform to amazing musicians from

all over the world.”GUY BARKER, COMPOSER/

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of making it easy for people to fi nd a way into the music that works for them; the Festival aims to, as Whitaker puts it, “take people on a journey, show them a diff erent side of music they might not have experienced and instil confi dence in the young people we’re involved with”. The ambition, adds Jones, is to let people “soak themselves in the music, ideas and attitudes of jazz”.

The drive to get people interested, and keep them engaged once they are, means it’s crucial for the Festival to move with the times. An emerging area of interest is the relationship between jazz and various kinds of media, something Cumming sees as

“really important. This year, for example, we have a much bigger fi lm element with the Barbican; the programme is fantastic.” What future programmes might focus on is anyone’s guess, but as the Festival looks to its next 21 years, one thing’s for sure: it will continue to evolve.

Of course, as much as the Festival refl ects the changing face of the outside world, a large part of its value lies in off ering a respite from mundane concerns, bringing together people who might not normally interact. “Jazz is a world music,” says Cumming. “It’s a really important statement in itself – it transcends familiar stereotypes of race, culture and generation through the curiosity of its artists, and the impulse to communicate, that defi nes its spirit.”

“Within our festival, jazz is the dominant music for 10 days of the year,” adds Jones. “For those 10 days, London is about jazz, right across the city, in more than 50 venues – and I think that’s just wonderful.”

“The most exciting thing that happens in jazz all year

in this country – a most wonderful, exciting event”

JOHN FORDHAM, JOURNALIST

“The festival is like a University of Jazz: the moment when the jazz

world comes to London”ALEX WEBB, PRODUCER

“I defy anyone who has a love for great music, vocal artistry and orchestration not to enjoy Jazz Voice – a joyous celebration of

jazz and its infl uence on the popular song.”

JOHN WILLIAMSON, CEO, EFG INTERNATIONAL

neil cowley performingat the naturalHistory Museum

robert glasper taking a breather

trish clowesgiving a workshop

to evolve. It’s a place for by-the-book classic jazz, of course, but it also provides a platform where jazz that’s a little (or a lot) diff erent can be heard.

“The Festival celebrates jazz and the music it’s touched by and the music it touches,” says Cumming, and he’s backed up by his two co-directors. As David Jones puts it, the Festival “has a style that emphasises how important it is to reach out to other styles of music”. Claire Whitaker adds: “One of the strengths of the Festival over the past 21 years is that it’s not a static museum piece. It’s a living, breathing thing.”

The other critical part of this desire to work outside the traditional jazz space is the Festival’s emphasis on fostering engagement. Year after year, the team at Serious has worked at bringing more people to jazz, opening up the genre to those who don’t instinctively feel an affi nity with it. The Festival is more than a series of concerts drawing international jazz icons to the city. It’s also an event that nurtures home-grown talent, provides a stage for emerging artists, creates and commissions collaborative projects, and manages countless education and outreach initiatives.

“We are really proud of our learning and participation programme,” says Whitaker, adding that this has continued to grow and now pervades “every nook and cranny” of the Festival. The decision to off er over a quarter of all performances for free is just one way

“THE FESTIVAL IS NOT A STATIC MUSEUM PIECE. IT’S A LIVING, BREATHING THING”

Hugh Masekela isappearing at theroyal festival Hall,southbank centre,on 15 november

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Paolo Conte performs at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 16 November. On 17 November, the Wayne Shorter Quartet plays the Barbican. John McLaughlin performs with Zakir Hussain as part of Remember Shakti at Southbank Centre on 21 November.

On 22 November, Matthew Herbert plays Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall; and the Carla Bley Trio, featuring Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard, performs on 24 November at Wigmore Hall.

Clockwise from top left: paolo conte by Cesare Cicardini;

the carla Bley trio by Bernd Thissen/Corbis; john Mclaughlin by Thomas Dorn; Matthew Herbert by Helen Woods; zakir Hussain; and Wayne shorter

photographed by tom legoff (corbis). sanborn isappearing at the Barbicanon 16 november, withpianist Bob james

esperanza spalding in new York,2008. photographed by philippelevy-stab (corbis). spalding isappearing as part of acs at theBarbican on 17 november

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Clockwise from above: courtney pine by Gary Wallis;

evan parker by Caroline Forbes; geri allen by Shonna Valeska;

Brad Mehldau by Michael Wilson; shabaka Hutchings by Emile Holba

On 16 November, Evan Parker performs as part of the Schlippenbach Trio at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room. Geri Allen performs alongside Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington at the Barbican on 17 November. The Barbican is also the location for performances by Courtney Pine with Monty Alexander, on 19 November, and Brad Mehldau, who along with Mark Guiliana makes up Mehliana; the duo can be seen playing on 21 November with Sons of Kemet, featuring Shabaka Hutchings.

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Clockwise from top left: lee Konitz; tigran Hamasyan, by Vahan Stepanyan; Madeleine peyroux from The Blue Room cover by Rocky Schenck; john surman by Ann Iren Odeby; christine tobin by Bob Barkany

SERIOUS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME, TAKE FIVE, CONTINUES TO GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH AT THE EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2013

ON SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER, Take Five, Serious’ hugely successful professional development scheme, will take over the Front Room at the Southbank Centre with several performances to delight a jazz-loving audience.

First up, European Sunrise. The band showcases the talents of 10 composer-performers, all participants in our Take Five: Europe programme; they hail from France (Airelle Besson and Guillaume Perret), the Netherlands (David Kweksilber and Marcos Baggiani), Norway (Daniel Herskedal and Per Zanussi), Poland (Marcin Masecki and Piotr Damasiewicz) and the UK (Arun Ghosh and Chris Sharkey).

Then it’s time for three groundbreaking Franco-British collaborations, featuring previous Take Five participants who are also part of the Jazz Shuttle programme. Sonsale features Andy Champion and Corey Mwamba; Dors includes

Chris Sharkey and Christophe de Bezenac; and Of Gauls and Gaels brings together Fraser Fifi eld and Benjamin Flament, who met via Take Five: Europe last year and were commissioned by French festival Jazz sous les Pommiers.

We will also be announcing the artists who will participate in the ninth edition of Take Five: UK, taking place next year.

Across the EFG London Jazz Festival 2013, you will be treated to many and various performances by bands led by previous Take Five alumni, including groups from the UK (Take Five: UK), France, the Netherlands, Norway and Poland (Take Five: Europe), as well as Switzerland (Take Five: Switzerland). Artists who have benefi ted from Serious’ other professional development programmes – Air Time, for jazz artists working in Scotland, and Move On Up, for artists working in African and Caribbean music – will also be performing.

The verve and drive of the musicians who participate in these

professional development schemes (and, of course, their success) is a continuing source of pride for Serious. We’d like to thank the forward-thinking funding organisations who are our partners in this ongoing adventure.

More information can be found at serious.org.uk/about/artists/artist-development.

For a full list of supporters of Festival performances, see the Festival Supporters page (page 35), and for information on how you can support Serious’ artist development work, turn to page 19.

take five: europeedition ii by emile Holba

Lee Konitz can be seen at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on 18 November. On 19 November Tigran Hamasyan performs at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Christine Tobin is in Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room. On Sunday 24 November, Stan Tracey and John Surman play the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Madeleine Peyroux plays the Royal Festival Hall.

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For all the familyThis year’s Festival programme includes several matinee performances, including Jazz Unravelled by 2011 Parliamentary Jazz Awards “Ensemble of the Year” Brass Jaw. Starring guest vocalist Gwyneth Herbert, Jazz Unravelled fuses jazz tradition and exciting new music in an interactive concert guaranteed to be fun and energetic. It may even go some way to demystifying all that jazz!

If you and your family really want to get involved, why not try a Serious Big Sing workshop? These 90-minute jazz vocal workshops, led by Festival artists

Brendan Reilly and Cecilia Stalin, run on both Sundays of the Festival; you’ll be able to try your hand at improvisation and scatting, as well as learning some well-loved standards.

Or make EFG London Jazz Festival history by taking part in one of our celebratory “21 Commissions”, supported by our new music commissions fund, created especially for our 21st birthday. Whether a novice or a self-confessed pro,

we have produced two special projects that need you to take part! If singing is your bag, join our Serious Big Sing residency, for which Carleen Anderson has written sensational new material for 50 voices. If you’d rather pick up an instrument, Bold as Brass is for you: more than 100 brass and percussion players of all ages and abilities will come together to perform new work by composer and saxophonist Jason Yarde.

Discover jazzIf that all feels a bit too much, sit back, relax and let the artists do the work!

Festival favourite Way In to the Way Out returns with another two-part talk on the history of jazz, as interpreted by the younger generation. This year you can expect plenty of banter and energy as history is explored and enthusiastically retold by a Geordie double-act: guitarist Chris Sharkey and bassist Andy Champion. It’s also well worth dropping into a talk from our pre-concert series Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya.

CelebrateJoin us for a day of fun for the whole family on Sunday 24 November as the Southbank Centre comes alive with a celebration of all things jazz for the Festival’s 21st birthday. Hosted by broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli (patron of Serious Trust), the Clore Ballroom promises a great line-up of free music, with Bold as Brass starting at midday.

There’s so much more to discover than we can share with you here. Check the Festival website for the full birthday party schedule and more information on our Learning and Participation programme. Please do join us for what looks set to be our biggest and most ambitious Festival programme to date!

THE LEARNING TEAM AT SERIOUS

YOU’LL BE ABLE TO TRY YOUR HAND AT IMPROVISATION IN THE JAZZ VOCAL WORKSHOPS Jazzhands-on

WHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE THE EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL’S 21ST BIRTHDAY THAN TO GET INVOLVED?

SERIOUS TRUSTEach year Serious relies on the support of a broad range

of sponsors, partners and donors to make the EFG London Jazz Festival possible. Serious Trust launched the Key to the Future Appeal to commission new music, develop talent and provide opportunities for people of all ages to engage with music. If you’d like to get involved in this work and support the next generation of music and musicians, fi nd out how

by visiting www.serious.org.uk/support-us

you want to listen to wonderful jazz up close, learn rhythms and songs with your little one, and even go home with some enjoyable musical games to try!

We’re also incredibly excited about our special commission by Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale: Catapluf’s Musical Journey. This wonderful concert for Key Stage 1 children takes you on a magical voyage of discovery of music from countries and cultures around the world. To ensure children and teachers alike get the most from it, we’ve developed this concert in partnership with Hanover Primary school in Islington and Latchmere Primary School in Kingston.

Children of secondary age, meanwhile, will benefi t from small-group tuition led by artists performing in this year’s Festival – including drummer Cheryl Alleyne and trumpeter Airelle Besson – at our weekend workshops for young players.

Mastering the artIf you’re a more seasoned student, or simply want to delve deeper, why not sign up for one of our weekend masterclasses? These exclusive events provide a wonderful opportunity to hear all about the technique and career paths of two Festival heavyweights, bassist Peter Ind and saxophonist John Surman.

To prove it, let us take you on a whistlestop tour through this year’s programme. You’ll fi nd activities for the very young to the more mature Festival fans; we’ve got something for you all!

little ones and school yearsBring a toddler or two along to one of our popular Jazz for Toddlers workshops taking place around the city. This year hosted by alto saxophonist Nathaniel Facey and drummer Moses Boyd, Jazz for Toddlers is the perfect place to go if

HERE AT SERIOUS, learning and participation are central to our Festival

and year-round programming.

participants in serious Big sing,

led by audrey Mattis, March 2013

Way in to theWay out is a two-part talk on thehistory of jazz

Jazz Workshops for Young PlayersSouthbank Centreneil Charles SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER, 11AMCheryl alleyne SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER, 11AMairelle BessonSATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER, 11AMChris MontagueSUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER, 11AM

Jazz for toddlersDiscover, StratfordSATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER, 12.30PMRich MixMONDAY 18 NOVEMBER, 2PMArtsdepotWEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER, 11AMKings PlaceSATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER, 2PMSouthbank CentreSUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER, 11AM/2PM

Serious Big Sing with… Carleen andersonSATURDAY 16, SUNDAY 17 AND SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER, 1PMSouthbank CentreCecilia StalinSUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER, 2PMBarbicanBrendan ReillySUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER, 2PMSouthbank Centre

Family friendly matineesBrass Jaw with Gwyneth HerbertSATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER, 3PMWigmore Halladriano adewale: Catapluf’s Musical JourneyTUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER, 10.30AM/1.30PMSouthbank CentreJazz toons: Scottish national Jazz OrchestraSATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER, 3PMSouthbank Centre

MasterclassesSouthbank CentrePeter indSATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER, 3PMJohn SurmanSATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER, 3.30PMEFG london Jazz Festival 21st Birthday Party SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER, FROM MIDDAYSouthbank CentreSee www.londonjazzfestival.org.uk

When & whereFULL DETAILS OF ALL SHOWS CAN BE FOUND AT WWW.LONDONJAZZFESTIVAL.ORG.UK

Way in to the Way OutSATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER (PART 1), 5PMSUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER (PART 2), 5PMSouthbank Centre

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The Festival makes the English capital, for 10 days, one of the most vibrant places in the world – and never more so than this year, when a key focal point is music from the East. Concerts by John McLaughlin (Remember Shakti, featuring Zakir Hussain), Arun Ghosh, Trilok Gurtu’s new band and Open Souls (the trio comprising Ranjana Ghatak, Jason Singh and Seb Rochford) are must-see events. And all these artists have strong links with the Festival, underlining Cumming’s point about the existence of a “memory bank” that often helps inform the Festival’s planning.

Culture shift British and British-Asian musicians play a pivotal role in the rich dialogue between jazz and Eastern traditions. “A relationship began to emerge in the

KEVIN LEGENDRE EXPLORES THE CULTURAL

LANDSCAPE OF THE EFG LONDON JAZZ

FESTIVAL 2013

FOR FESTIVAL DIRECTOR JOHN CUMMING, the process is largely organic. “The funny thing about

themes in festivals is that you don’t necessarily think of them until you’ve started programming,” he says. “It’s partly opportunistic, but there’s a memory bank that says, ‘We can make connections here, a series of links that take the audience on a di� erent journey.’”

1960s when American jazz artists like John Coltrane and the UK’s Joe Harriott became fascinated by Eastern culture,” says Cumming. “Not just for musical connections: there were cultural or religious connections, too. It stemmed from fi nding that there were other cultures out there that stretch back to ancient civilisation and have evolved a sophisticated musical tradition as rooted in improvisation as jazz itself.”

Defi ning the eastIndia looms large in the Festival programme – but East is, of course, a broad term, and it would be crude to defi ne it fi rst and foremost as what is culturally diff erent to West. As well as Asia, one also has to take into account substantial parts of the Mediterranean and Europe; musicians as disparate

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as Gilad Atzmon, the graceful Persian musician Hossein Alizadeh, and the inventive Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan. Cumming highlights the “wonderful” Albania-born, Switzerland-based Elina Duni – who sings music derived from Albanian folk songs – as one of his current favourites.

a journey of jazz“I thought, let’s see what happens when we look from the Balkans and Eastern Europe and into that area that is part-Europe, part-Asia, and see how those cultures are responding to jazz,” he adds. “It’s like creating a journey – we’re looking at where artists face eastwards as well as westwards. John McLaughlin’s long-standing association with Zakir Hussain was an obvious starting point, and helped trigger a strand that takes the Festival from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean into the riches of the lands beyond.”

East on stageDON’T MISS THESE INSPIRED PERFORMANCES BY ARTISTS FROM ACROSS EUROPE, THE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA

Hossein alizadeh + Pejman HadadiFRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER, 7.30PMSouthbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall

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tigran Hamasyan + Elina DuniTUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER, 7.30PMSouthbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall

John Mclaughlin and Zakir Hussain: Remember ShaktiTHURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 7.30PMSouthbank Centre/Royal Festival Hall

Gilad atzmonTHURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 7.30PMSouthbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall

arun Ghosh’s arkestra MakaraSUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER, 8PMThe Albany

trilok Gurtu + Open SoulsSUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER, 7.30PMSouthbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall

Beautiful beatsfrom zakir Hussain (left)as he performsalongside johnMclaughlin;Hossein alizadeh(above right)plays some persian tunes;elina duni(below) sings hernative albanianfolk music

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MogwaiFriday 24 & Saturday 25 January

Transatlantic SessionsMonday 3 February

Bill CallahanFriday 7 & Saturday 8 February

Christy MooreWith Declan Sinnott

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ZOE RAHMAN quARtEt 7.30pm

Zoe Rahman (piano)Idris Rahman (clarinet/ saxophone)

Alec Dankworth (bass)Gene Calderazzo (drums)

Saturday 16 November

BRuut! 3pm FREE

Maarten Hogenhuis (saxophone)Folkert Oosterbeek (Hammond)

Thomas Rolff (bass)Felix Schlarmann (drums)

Barbican FreeStage

BOB JAMES AND DAVID SANBORN

Bob James (piano)David Sanborn (saxophone)

Steve Gadd (drums)Scott Colley (bass)

DASH! FREE

KAPOK FREE

Alex Oele (bass)Eric Hoeke (drums)Ranjana Ghatak (vocals)Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet)

Hilary Jeffery (trombone)Maarten Ornstein (saxophone/bass clarinet)

Morris Kliphuis (French horn)Timon Koomen (guitar)

Remco Menting (drums)

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Southbank Centre/ Queen Elizabeth Hall

JAZZ VOICE 7.30pm This show is Two seTs, wiTh an inTerval

HOSSEIN ALIZADEH + PEJMAN HADADI 7.30pm

Arranger/conductorGuy Barker

VocalsLiam BaileyEskaJane MonheitClare TealKrystle WarrenAnnabel Williams

VIVEEmily Dankworth,Lewis Daniel,MartynasVilpisauskas,James Rose,Sam Robson

TrumpetsNathan BrayTom Rees-RobertsPat WhiteMartin Shaw

TrombonesBarnaby DickinsonAndy WoodMark Frost

ReedsJamie TalbotSam MaynePhil ToddGraeme Blevins Alan Barnes

HornsDave LeeJim Rattigan

ViolinsSonia SlanyJulian TearHarriet DaviesDebbie PreeceLucy WaterhouseDai EmmanuelWarren ZeilinskiNeil McTaggartSimon SmithAnna SzaboJonathan TruscottAlison DoddsYu Yasuoroko FinchClare Connors

ViolasSteve TeesJon ThorneGeorge RobertsonElisa Bergersen

CellosNick CooperSophie HarrisNick HollandJoely Koos

PianoDave Newton

BassChris Hill

Drums Ralph Salmins

GuitarMitch Dalton

PercussionPaul Clarvis

HarpHelen Tunstall

Hossein Alizadeh (tar/setar/lute)Pejman Hadadi (percussion)

Friday 15 November

Southbank Centre/Purcell Room

StAN SuLZMANN’S NEON ORCHEStRA

Southbank Centre/ Clore Ballroom

tROGON 1pm FREE

Nick Smart (trumpet/flugelhorn)Alex Munk (guitar)Kishon Khan (piano)Denny “Jimmy” Martinez (bass)Dave Hamblett (drums)Pete Eckford (percussion)

Solo saxophoneStan Sulzmann

Musical director/conductorNick Smart

TrumpetsTom WalshHenry LowtherGeorge HoggFreddie GavitaNick Smart

TrombonesMark NightingaleRobbie HarveyMark BasseySarah Williams

ReedsMartin Hathaway Mike ChillingworthJosh ArcoleoPete HurtJames Allsop

VibraphoneJim Hart

GuitarAlex Munk

PianoNikki Iles

BassSteve Watts

DrumsTim Giles

Southbank Centre/Front Room

CELINE BONACINA 5.30pm FREE

Céline Bonacina (saxophone/vocals)Leila Martial (vocals)Illya Amar (vibraphone)Romain Labaye (bass)Hary Ratsimbazafy (drums)Nicolas Leyroy (percussion)

Southbank Centre/ Royal Festival Hall

PAOLO CONtE 7.30pm This show is Two seTs, wiTh an inTerval

Paolo Conte (vocals) Nunzio Barbieri (guitar)Lucio Caliendo (oboe/bassoon/percussion/keyboard)Claudio Chiara (saxophone/flute/accordion)Daniele Dall’Omo (guitar)Daniele Di Gregorio (drums/percussion/marimba/piano)Luca Enipeo (guitar)Massimo Pizianti (accordion/bandoneon/clarinet/saxophone/piano/keyboard)Piergiorgio Rosso (violin)Jino Touche (double bass/electric guitar)Luca Velotti (saxophone/clarinet)

paolo conte performs on stage in 2011 in Barcelona

Listed in order of appearance (we reserve the right to amend the programme)

BRASS JAW 7.45pm

TrumpetRyan Quigley

SaxophonePaul TowndrowKonrad Wiszniewski Allon Beauvoisin

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ZENA EDWARDS 7.30pm

HuGH MASEKELA & LARRY WILLIS

KAI HOFFMAN 6pm FREE

Kai Hoffman (vocals)Gunther Kurmayr (piano)

Dave Manington (bass)Sebastiaan de Krom (drums)

Zena Edwards (vocals) Kevin Mark Trail (guitar)

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn/vocals)Larry Willis (piano)

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RuBEN FOX AND MARK KAVuMA 5.45pm FREE

ACS 4pm

Wayne Shorter (saxophone)Danilo Pérez (piano)

John Patitucci (bass)Brian Blade (drums)

Conducted by Clark Rundell

1st violinsCynthia FlemingCharles MutterRebecca TurnerPeter Bussereau Chereene Allen

2nd violinsMichael GrayMatthew ElstonDavid BeamanSarah FreestoneRustom Pomeroy

ViolasTimothy WelchRobin Del Mar Nigel GoodwinJacqueline Lloyd CellosBenjamin Hughes, Katharine O’Kane,Matthew Lee,Josephine Abbott

Double bassesDominic Worsley,Stacey-Ann Miller

FlutesIleana RuhemannSophie Johnson

OboeAdrian Rowlands

Cor AnglaisVictoria Walpole

ClarinetMichael Pearce

BassoonsMargaret Pollock Jane Sibley

HornsKira DohertyTom Rumsby

TrumpetsCatherine MooreDavid McCallum

TromboneJames Casey

Timpani/PercussionAlasdair Malloy

Geri Allen (piano)Terri Lyne Carrington (piano)

Esperanza Spalding (bass)

Barbican FreeStage

WAYNE SHORtER quARtEt 8pm

BBC CONCERt ORCHEStRA

Barbican Ruben Fox (saxophone)Mark Kavuma (trumpet)Mark Lewandowski (bass)Shane Forbes (drums)Rick Simpson (piano)

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SCHLIPPENBACH tRIO 7.45pm

Alex von Schlippenbach (piano)Evan Parker (saxophone)Paul Lovens (drums)

Ivo de Greef (piano)Finn Peters (saxophone/flute)Damien Harron (drums)

ARILD ANDERSEN quINtEt

Arild Andersen (bass)Tommy Smith (saxophone)Matthieu Michel (trumpet)Marcin Wasilewski (piano)Patrice Heral (drums)

REISJEGER/FRAANJE/SYLLA 7.30pm

Ernst Reisjeger (cello)Harmen Fraanje (piano/vocals)Mola Sylla (vocals/percussion)

Alex Webb (piano)Nathaniel Facey (saxophone)Freddie Gavita (trumpet)Moses Boyd (drums)Neil Charles (bass)Sirena Riley (compère)Winston Rollins (trombone)Jo Caleb (guitar)

PAttY GRIFFIN

Patty Griffin (vocals)John Deaderick (piano/percussion)Craig Ross (bass/guitar/percussion)David Pulkingham (bass/guitar/percussion)

JuLIA BIEL 7.30pm

Julia Biel (vocals/piano/guitar)Idris Rahman (electric bass/vocals)Saleem Raman (drums/vocals)

Southbank Centre/Royal Festival Hall


JAZZ CuBANO 7.30pm

Alfredo Rodriguez (piano)

Pedrito Martinez (percussion/lead vocals)Ariacne Trujillo (keyboard/lead vocals)Alvaro Benavides (bass/backing vocals)Jhair Sala (bongos/bell/backing vocals)

Ramón Valle (piano)Javier Colina (bass)Ernesto Simpson (drums)

CHARLIE PARKER ON DIAL 3pm and 7.45pm


CELEBRAtING JAZZ At tHE PHILHARMONIC 7.30pm

James Pearson (piano)Jacky Terrasson (piano)Peter King (saxophone)Nigel Hitchcock (saxophone)Alex Garnett (saxophone)

Byron Wallen (trumpet)Jacqui Dankworth (vocals)Gary Husband (drums)Sam Burgess (bass)

Barbican/Milton Court Concert Hall

JAZZ LINE-uP 2pm FREE

KENtISH tOWN INStANt ORCHEStRA 1pm FREE

F-IRE COLLECtIVE 2pm FREE

Dorian Ford (piano)Jonny Phillips (guitar)

Fred Thomas (bass/drums/piano)Zac Gvi (piano/saxophone)

Jonathan Bratoëff (guitar)Andrea Dibiase (bass)


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Dainius Pulauskas (piano/synthesisers)Valerijus Ramoska (trumpet/flugelhorn)Liutauras Janušaitis (tenor saxophone)Kestutis Vaiginis (alto saxophone)Domas Aleksa (bass)Linas Buda (drums)

Benet McLean (vocals/piano)Duncan Eagle (saxophone)Max Luther (bass)Mark Mondesir (drums)

Nathaniel Facey (saxophone)Tom Farmer (double bass)Shane Forbes (drums)Lewis Wright (vibraphone)

Stan Sulzmann (saxophone)Ross Stanley (Hammond)Tim Giles (drums)Nick Smart (trumpet)

BRASS JAW WItH GWYNEtH HERBERt: FAMILY FRIENDLY MAtINEE 3pm

Trumpet Ryan Quigley

VocalsGwyneth Herbert

SaxophonePaul TowndrowKonrad WiszniewskiAllon Beauvoisin

Wigmore Hall


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PABLO HELD tRIO 7.30pm

Pablo Held (piano)Robert Landfermann (bass)

Jonas Burgwinkel (drums)

Wednesday 20 November

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MEHLIANA 7.30pm This show is Two seTs, wiTh an inTerval

GILAD AtZMON 7.30pm

REMEMBER SHAKtI 7.30pm

SONS OF KEMEt

Brad Mehldau (piano/keyboard)Mark Guiliana (drums)

John McLaughlin (guitar) Zakir Hussain (tabla)Shankar Mahadavan (vocals)

U Shrinivas (mandolin)V Selvaganesh (kanjira/ghatam/mridangan)

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KEtIL BJØRNStAD AND KARI BREMNES 7.45pm

LAuRA JuRD 6pm FREE

Ketil Bjørnstad (piano)Kari Bremnes (vocals)

Laura Jurd (trumpet)Lauren Kinsella (voice)Alex Roth (guitar)Corrie Dick (drums)

Chris Batchelor (trumpet)Colm O’Hara (trombone)Mick Foster (saxophone)

Thursday 21 November


MICHÈLE DREES tAP PROJECt 7.45pm This show is Two seTs, wiTh an inTerval

Michèle Drees (drums)Andrew Nemr (tap)Junior Lanyon (tap)Scott Cripps (tap)

Jess Murray (tap)Shanti Paul Jayasinha (trumpet)John Crawford (piano)Steve Rose (bass)


VERNERI POHJOLA 6pm FREE

Verneri Pohjola (trumpet)Aki Rissanen (piano)

Joonas Riippa (drums) Antti Lötjönen (bass)

Monday 18 November

Kenny Wheeler (trumpet)John Taylor (piano)Chris Laurence (bass)

Stan Sulzmann (saxophone)Martin France (drums)

KENNY WHEELER quINtEt 7.30pm


Lee Konitz (saxophone)Dan Tepfer (piano)

LEE KONItZ WItH DAN tEPFER

Barbican

Shabaka Hutchings (saxophone)Tom Skinner (drums)

Seb Rochford (drums)Oren Marshall (tuba)

MONtY ALEXANDER: HARLEM KINGStON EXPRESS 7.30pm

Monty Alexander (piano)Caterina Zapponi (vocals)Obed Calvaire (drums)Dezron Douglas (acoustic bass)

Karl Wright (rock drums)Leon Duncan (bass)Earl Appleton (keyboard)Andy Bassford (guitar)

Tuesday 19 November

Southbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall

tIGRAN HAMASYAN quINtEt

Tigran Hamasyan (piano/vocals)Chris Tordini (bass)

Charles Altura (guitar)Areni Agbabian (vocals)Arthur Hnatek (drums)

ELINA DuNI quARtEt 7.30pm

Elina Duni (vocals)Colin Vallon (piano)

Patrice Moret (double bass)Norbert Pfammatter (drums)

NARCISSuS 6pm FREE


Pete Lee (piano) Tom Varrall (guitar)Huw Foster (bass)

Ali Thynne (drums)Josh Arcoleo (saxophone)


CHRIStINE tOBIN

Christine Tobin (vocals)Huw Warren (accordion)Adriano Adewale (percussion)

Dave Whitford (bass)Phil Robson (guitar)

GEORGIA MANCIO 7.45pm

Georgia Mancio (vocals)Gareth Lockrane (flute)

Geoff Gascoyne (bass)


A tRIButE tO ABRAM WILSON 7.45pm This show is Two seTs, wiTh an inTerval


ZARA McFARLANE 7.30pm

Zara McFarlane (vocals)Peter Edwards (piano)Moses Boyd (drums)

Max Luther (bass)Binker Golding (saxophone)

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LLuIS MAtHER 6pm FREE

Lluis Mather (saxophone)Holly Thomas (vocals)Dan Nicholls (piano)Euan Palmer (drums)

COuRtNEY PINE: HOuSE OF LEGENDS

Courtney Pine (soprano saxophone/EWI)Michael “Bammi” Rose (saxophone)Eddie “Tan Tan” Thornton (trumpet)Trevor Edwards (trombone)

Robert Fordjour (drums/Dube)Cameron Pierre (guitar)Chris Cobbson (guitar)Vidal Montgomery (bass)Samuel Dubois (steel pan)Oscar Martinez (percussion)


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DIANNE REEVES

Dianne Reeves (vocals) Peter Martin (piano)Romero Lubambo (guitar)Reginald Veal (bass)Terreon Gully (drums)

Reuben James (piano) Dave Hamblett (drums) Jason Marsalis (drums)Keith Loftis (saxophone)Peter King (saxophone)

Jean Toussaint (saxophones)Trevor Mires (trombone)Mark Lewandowski (bass)Alphonso Horne (trumpet)

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Saturday 23 November

Marcus Miller (bass/ clarinet)Adam Agati (guitar)Brett Williams (piano/keyboard)

Robert “Sput” Searight (drums)Alex Han (saxophone)Lee Hogans (trumpet)

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HAL WILLNER: AMARCORD NINO ROtA 8pm This show is Two seTs, wiTh an inTerval

PEtER JOHNStONE 1pm FREE

tOMORROW’S WARRIORS 5.30pm FREE

MAttHEW HERBERt

Peter Johnstone (piano)Brodie Jarvie (bass)John Lowrie (drums)

Dylan Jones (trumpet)Cassie Kinoshi (saxophone)Nubya Garcia (saxophone)Shirley Tetteh (guitar)

David Mrakpor (vibraphone)Inga Eichler (bass)Patrick Boyle (drums)Cherise Adams-Burnett (vocals)

Matthew Herbert (band leader/electronics)Sam Beste (keyboard)Tom Skinner (drums)Yann Seznec (electronics)

Carla Bley (piano)Marc Almond (vocals)Nitin Sawhney (piano)Steven Bernstein (trumpet)BJ Cole (lap steel guitar)Steve Swallow (bass)Alec Dankworth (double bass)Ian Thomas (drums)Hugh Wilkinson (percussion)Tom Rees-Roberts (trumpet)Barnaby Dickinson (trombone)Andy Wood (trombone)Julian Siegal (saxophone)Sam Mayne (saxophone)Andy Grappy (tuba)Rowland Sutherland (flute)Dai Pritchard (clarinet)

Kate St John (oboe)John Etheridge (guitar)Karen Mantler (glockenspiel/organ/harmonica)Max Baille (violin)Anna de Bruin (violin)Vince Greene (viola)Emma Black (cello)Mike Gibbs (conductor/arranger)Giancarlo Vulcano (conductor/arranger)Steve Beresford (conductor/arranger)

BLACK SAINt AND tHE SINNER LADY

Peter Edwards (musical director/piano)Nathaniel Facey (alto saxophone)Binker Golding (saxophone/sop)Will Gibson (baritone clarinet/flute)

Theon Cross (tuba)Rosie Turton (trombone)Byron Wallen (trumpet)Sheila Maurice-Grey (trumpet)Giorgio Serci (guitar)Gary Crosby (bass)Eddie Hicks (drums)

Friday 22 November

LORDS OF tHE LOWER FREquENCY 7.45pm

Gary Crosby (bass) Peter Ind (bass)Dave Green (bass)


tOuMANI DIABAtE & tRIO DA KALI 7.30pm This show is Two seTs, wiTh an inTerval

Toumani Diabaté (kora)Hawa Kasse Mady (vocals)Lassana Diabate (balfon)Mamadou Kouyaté (bass)Mariam Kouyaté (vocals/dance)

Geoff Gascoyne (bass)Tom Cawley (piano)Enzo Zirili (drums)Martin Hathaway (saxophone)Martin Shaw (trumpet)

Dave O’Higgins (saxophone)Ian Shaw (vocals)Trudy Kerr (vocals)plus the Guildhall School Big Band


GEOFF GASCOYNE’S 50tH BIRtHDAY CELEBRAtION 7.30pm

carleenanderson willwow audienceswith her singing


JAZZ tOONS: SCOttISH NAtIONAL JAZZ ORCHEStRA 3pm

SCOttISH NAtIONAL JAZZ ORCHEStRA 7.30pm

Musical director/reeds Tommy Smith

ReedsMartin Kershaw,Ruaridh Pattison,Konrad Wiszniewski,William Fleming

TrumpetsTom WalshCameron JayLorne CowiesonTom MacNiven

TrombonesChristopher Greive,Phil O’Malley,Michael Owers,Kevin Garrity

DrumsAlyn Cosker

PianoSteve HamiltonBrian Kellock

BassCalum GourlayBrodie Jarvie

Vocals/jazz toonsJacqui Dankworth

Line up previous listing, plus Brian Kellock (piano)

ELLINGtON IN ANtICIPAtION

Mark Lockheart (saxophone)Liam Noble (piano)Jasper Hoiby (bass)Seb Rochford (drums)

Finn Peters (saxophone)James Allsop (clarinet)Margrit Hasler (viola)


tROYKEStRA 3pm

GuitarChris Montague

KeyboardKit Downes

DrumsJoshua Blackmore

ConductorNick Smart

TrumpetsReuben FowlerAlex Bonney

Noel LangleyImogen Hancock

TrombonesKieran Stickle McLeodPatrick HayesTom GreenCourtney Brown

ReedsMike ChillingworthNadim TeimooriSam Miles James Allsop

JOHN HOLLENBECK CLAuDIA quINtEt

John Hollenbeck (drums)Matt Moran (vibraphone)Red Wierenga (accordion)

Chris Speed (clarinet/saxophone)Drew Gress (acoustic bass)

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MuSIC BIG BAND FEAtuRING JOHN HOLLENBECK 7.45pm

Composer/drumsJohn Hollenbeck

DirectorNick Smart

VocalsJacob Collier

ReedsAlex Hitchcock, Matthew Sulzmann, Greg Barker, Ronan Perrett, Sam Rapley

TrumpetsLouis DowdeswellJames CopusBen RodneyDan Walton

TrombonesOwen Dawson Oliver MartinQuinn ParkerCourtney Brown

PianoNathan Morson

GuitarRob Luft

Vibraphone/percussionRalph Wyld

BassMishaMullov-Abbado,Fergus Ireland

DrumsJJ Wheeler


Tom Skinner (drums)Shabaka Hutchings (saxophone/clarinet)

Hugh Jones (laptop)

HELLO SKINNY 7.30pm

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Carleen Anderson (vocals)James Pearson (keyboard)Sam Burgess (bass)

Al Cherry (guitar)Simon Lea (drums)

CARLEEN ANDERSON 7.30pm

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RONNIE SCOtt’S BIG BAND IN A DAY

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tRILOK GuRtu

Trilok Gurtu (drums/vocals/percussion)Frederik Köster (trumpet)

Jesse Milliner (piano/keyboard)Jonathan Cuniado (bass)

OPEN SOuLS 7.30pm

Ranjana Ghatak (vocals)Seb Rochford (drums)Jason Singh (beatboxer)

StAN tRACEY AND JOHN SuRMAN 2pm

Stan Tracey (piano)John Surman (saxophone)


BOBO RONDELLI AND L’ORCHEStRINO 7.15pm

MADELEINE PEYROuX 7.30pm

CARLA BLEY tRIO 7.30pm

Bobo Rondelli (vocals)Fabio Marchiori (keyboard/melodica)Simone Padovani (drums)Daniele Paoletti (drums)

Dimitri Grechi Espinosa (saxophone)Giuseppe Scardino (saxophone)Filippo Ceccarini (trumpet)Tony Cattano (trombone)

Madeleine Peyroux (vocals/guitar)Jon Herington (guitar)Jason Rebello (keyboards)Barak Mori (bass)

Darren Beckett (drums)Sylvia D’Avanzo (violin)Sonia Slany (violin)Stephen Tees (viola)Nick Cooper (cello)

Carla Bley (piano)Steve Swallow (bass)Andy Sheppard (saxophone)

StAN tRACEY quINtEt

Stan Tracey (piano)Clark Tracey (drums)Simon Allen (saxophone)

Mark Armstrong (trumpet)Andrew Cleyndert (double bass)



KORMAC AND HIS BIG BAND Midday FREE

ZAPP 4 3.15pm FREE

Cormac O’Halloran (DJ)Phil West (vocals)Ben “Koaste” Manchester (vocals)Sean Kennedy (trumpet)Lorcan Brennan (trombone)

Simon Gilligan (drums)Conor O’Connor (bass)Stephen Synnott (keyboard)Gavin Warren (tuba)Jeremy Morgan (vocals)Barry Finn (vocals)

Oene van Geel (violin)Jasper le Clercq (violin)Emile Visser (cello)Jeffrey Bruinsma (violin)

Southbank Centre/Clore Ballroom

Wigmore Hall

DORS Midday FREE

EuROPEAN SuNRISE 3.45pm FREE

OF GAuLS AND GAELS 5.45pm FREE

SONSALE 1pm FREE

Yuko Oshima (drums)Eve Risser (piano)Christophe de Bezenac (saxophone)Chris Sharkey (guitar)

Airelle Besson (trumpet)Arun Ghosh (clarinet)Chris Sharkey (guitar)Daniel Herskedal (tuba)David Kweksilber (clarinet/saxophones)

Guillaume Perret (saxophone)Marcin Masecki (piano)Marcos Baggiani (drums)Per Zanussi (double bass)Piotr Damasiewicz (trumpet)

Fraser Fifield (bagpipe/whistles)Benjamin Flament

(vibraphone)Gilles Coronado (guitar)Gildas Etevenard (drums)

Andy Champion (bass)Corey Mwamba (vibraphone)

Sylvain Darrifourcq (drums)Valentin Ceccaldi (cello)

Southbank Centre/Front RoomSouthbank Centre/Clore Ballroom

JAZZ IN tHE ROuND 2pm FREE

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JOHN HOLLENBECK CLAuDIA quINtEt

KENNY WHEELER quINtEt

CARLEEN ANDERSON

Liam Noble (piano)Chris Batchelor (trumpet)Oren Marshall (tuba)Paul Clarvis (drums)

Carleen Anderson (vocals/piano)

John Hollenbeck (drums)Matt Moran (vibraphone)Red Wierenga (accordion)Chris Speed (clarinet/saxophone)Drew Gress (acoustic bass)

Kenny Wheeler (trumpet)John Taylor (piano)Chris Laurence (bass)Stan Sulzmann (saxophone)Martin France (drums)

Southbank Centre/Clore Ballroom

tIM WHItEHEAD: tuRNER AND tHE tHAMES 6pm FREE

Tim Whitehead (saxophone/clarinet)Jonathan Gee (piano)Oli Hayhurst (double bass)Winston Clifford (drums)


ESSENtIALLY ELLINGtON (DJ SEt) 10pm FREE

Orphy Robinson (turntables)Cleveland Watkiss (turntables)

RHYtHM StICKS: tHE NAtIONAL YOutH JAZZ ORCHEStRA OF SCOtLAND

EASt LONDON CREAtIVE JAZZ ORCHEStRA AND GuEStS SONS OF KEMEt

ARCHIE SHEPP: AttICA BLuES ORCHEStRAS 7.30pm

NAtIONAL YOutH JAZZ COLLECtIVE

Barbican

Barbican FreeStage Midday FREE

Sunday 24 November

Saxophone/vocalsArchie Shepp

Vocals/piano Amina Claudine Myers

PianoTom McClung

VocalsMarion RampalDenise King

TrumpetsStéphane Belmondo Izidor LeitingerQuentin GhomariOlivier Miconi

TrombonesSébastien LladoMichael BallueSimon SiegerRomain Morello

BassReggie Washington

SaxophonesFrançois Théberge Virgile LefebvreRaphaël ImbertOlivier Chaussade Jean-Philippe Scali

DrumsFamoudou Don Moye

CelloLouise Rosbach

ViolaAntoine Carlier

ViolinsSteve DuongManon Tenoudji

GuitarPierre Durand

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impromptu tenor battle... Then there’s the late-night jams at Ronnie’s, with Festival stars rubbing shoulders with precocious local talent – or the reaction of the audience when an unexpected guest arrives on stage or an unknown singer takes Jazz Voice by storm.

The EFG London Jazz Festival demonstrates the sheer diversity of music that touches or is touched by jazz. We’ve grown as jazz has evolved, and we’ve also helped stimulate that evolution. But along the way we’ve remained true to the original vision: of an event that refl ects London’s international standing and celebrates the role of the jazz community within the city’s rich mix of cultures.

All that

Jazz is here in London throughout the year. You can fi nd it in intimate clubs, in tiny rooms in pubs, in arts centres in the suburbs and in major concert halls. It’s also in the huge range of schools, colleges and community organisations that help take the inspiration of jazz to many young people.

The UK jazz scene is intensely creative; the artists, who play the music day-in and day-out, are the heartbeat of the Festival. We place huge value in those relationships and we’re always keen to commission new work and respond to new ideas.

There’s a tendency for jazz to be seen as a niche area of music. I think the Festival proves this is far from true. It’s established in London’s musical year and is now the capital’s most extensive city-wide music festival. It also plays a part in the International Jazz Festivals Organization and has become a meeting point for the jazz community worldwide.

If I had to pick any other jazz festival to attend, it would be Jazz sous les Pommiers in Coutances. It involves what seems to be most of the population of a small Normandy town, with jazz legends rubbing shoulders with hordes of young bands from across the region. There’s a great atmosphere. But any jazz festival worth its salt has its

jazzown place in its country or community, and plays a crucial part in ensuring the music’s future.

If I could choose one artist to play at the Festival, it would have been Duke Ellington.

Technology is a wonderful thing. The internet is helping jazz reach more people than ever before. This year, 40 hours of the Festival’s performances are scheduled to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and listeners from anywhere on the planet will be able to listen via the BBC website.

I love watching artists follow the path from unknown debutant to becoming an innovative force. Nik Bärtsch, Robert Glasper, Shabaka Hutchings and Trish Clowes all come to mind, but there are many others. And, of course, there’s always a special place for the jazz masters, such as Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman; they’ve provided high points for me in recent years.

Moments of surprise form the essence of jazz. We’ve had our fair share of those. I remember Joe Lovano and Joshua Redman tearing into an

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ornette coleman

SERIOUS DIRECTOR JOHN CUMMING REFLECTS ON THE SPIRIT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL – AND THE MUSIC IT REPRESENTS

Festival Supporters

The Festival would like to thank its headline sponsor for its crucial support of the overall programme, and Arts Council England, which has supported the Festival since it began in 1992.

A Centre of @Tension, conexions, Fiona Talkington for Scene Norway 2, Hampstead Arts Festival, Jazz Warriors International, Jazzlines, Kapa Productions, Kazum!, Metropolis Music, Morley College, Mwalimu Express, Nava Arts, Ponderosa Music & Arts, Rare Noise, Somethin’ Else, Soundcrash, The Local

The Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation, The Garfield Weston Foundation, Alexander Landia, Ann Grant, Sandra Pepera

We Would like to acknoWledge the folloWing organisations:

We Would also like to acknoWledge our partners Who are presenting Work across the festival

and the folloWing, for their support of serious’ Work

the festival is proud to be a member of the europe Jazz netWork and the international Jazz festivals organization

in addition to the organisations listed above, We Would also like to thank the folloWing for their support of performances in the festival.

the festival is only possible as a result of the support of our many partners and We Would like to thank the folloWing:

EFG has been supporting the London Jazz Festivalsince 2008, when together they created the EFGExcellence Series – a programme of four world-classperformances from some of the leading lights in jazztoday, now in its sixth year.

EFG is proud to become headline sponsor of theFestival in 2013, supporting the overall programme of the EFG London Jazz Festival.

EFG Private Bank Limited, Leconfield House, Curzon Street, London W1J 5JB, T + 44 20 7491 9111. EFG Private Bank Limited is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authorityand regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. EFG Private Bank Limited is a member of the London Stock Exchange. Registered in

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EFG London Jazz Festival 2013 Souvenir Magazine