Back in November I wrote “A Jazz Musician’s guide to the EFG London Jazz Festival 2019,” which was a guide to the Jazz Festival from a musician’s perspective. The EFG London Jazz Festival is a very important event on the London Jazz calendar for us — the buzz of public…

Pianist Sam Leak interviews saxophonist Josephine Davies ahead of Satori’s EFG London Jazz Festival concert, at Greenwich’s ‘Oliver’s Jazz Bar,’ on Sunday 24th November. SL: Your music is influenced by Japanese philosophy. Can you tell us a bit more about this, perhaps with some specific examples? JD: I formed this…

Pianist Sam Leak interviews saxophonist Sam Crockatt ahead of his EFG London Jazz Festival concert, at Greenwich’s ‘Oliver’s Jazz Bar,’ on Wednesday 20th November. SL: Can you tell us a bit about your London Jazz Festival gig this year? SC: I’m very much looking forward this gig! The first set…

There’s nothing quite like walking around an art gallery with someone that really ‘knows their stuff,’ is there? You now have a superpower — X-ray vision — absorbing the artworks with a depth and insight that would have been impossible otherwise. It’s much like going to a foreign city as…