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How I discovered Jazz in the Southbank
Did you know that Friday Lunchtime in the Central bar at Royal Festival Hall is perfect way to kick start the weekend? Team up with a friend, get some lunch at the Southbank Food market and simply watch Jazz bands play soothing music for free, courtesy of MasterCard. I was…
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Kansas Smitty’s Basement Tapes Tour @ Nightjar Oriole
FINAL stop of Kansas Smitty’s Basement Tapes Tour, happening on Tuesday 24th November at the all new Night Jar bar ORIOLE. For one night only, Oriole, will transform into a cultural hub for live jazz and blues music. Inviting Kansas Smitty’s into their intimate basement, the band will proceed to fill the venue with their distinctive and euphoric sound of…
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Review of Leroy Jones Quintet at Pizza Express Jazz Club
By Eboni Addoh Pizza express is not a place I would equate with a jazz venue; however I was pleasantly surprised as I was lead down small spiral stairs to an appealing basement venue. Its low ceiling, dark interior coupled with atmospheric mood lighting, bar and small stage created a…
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LEROY JONES QUINTET
With Joe Stilgoe & Ian Shaw NEW ORLEANS JAZZ’S ‘KEEPER OF THE FLAME’ COMES TO THE UK OCTOBER 23 – NOVEMBER 11, 2015 “The Greatest” Harry Connick Junior The legendary jazz trumpeter Leroy Jones, known to music lovers as the “keeper of the flame” for traditional…
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Slap Ya Papa Presents….The Bayou Banquet at The Vaults Waterloo
Slap Ya Papa Presents – The Bayou Banquet September 16th – September 27th The Vaults, Waterloo Purveyors of all things Louisiana – from soul food to jumpin’ live music – Slap Ya Papa is bringing their red-lit New Orleans inspired world to the Victorian railway arches at The Vaults this…
