London Jazz Festival
The London Jazz Festival (LJF) is a yearly forming since 1992 in November at various locations in London Jazz Festival.
Concerts take place in the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club , the Pizza Express Jazz Club, the Vortex Jazz Club , various churches, old music halls and various theaters, the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Center .
The festival emerged from the older Camden Jazz Festival in the London Borough of Camden , which from 1973 took place as a one-week annex ( Camden Jazz Week ) to the Camden Festival in this north London district in spring and at times also in autumn (except 1982). This jazz festival ended in the 1990s and with the support of the London Arts Board , the producer agency Serious developed a new festival concept that extended to all of London. Serious's John Cumming was previously involved in organizing Camden Jazz Week and the Bracknell Jazz Festival . The festival is organized in collaboration with BBC 3. At first it was May, now November, and it lasts ten days.
Wayne Shorter , Joe Pass , Michael Brecker , George Russell , Carla Bley , Randy Weston , Gerald Wilson , Cecil Taylor , Anthony Braxton , Archie Shepp , Evan Parker , Sheila Jordan , The Bad Plus and Brad Mehldau performed at the festival .
In special projects, for example, all of Thelonious Monk's compositions were performed one after the other in the Royal Festival Hall (by the Monk Liberation Front ) and 200 saxophonists played in Saxophone Massive under the direction of Andy Sheppard ; Composition commissions were also awarded.
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- ↑ Earlier in May
- ↑ Serious Agency