London Jazz Festival

London Jazz Festival

by: Spoonfed Festivals

Line- ups, updates and new for the London Jazz Festival 2011.

Venues across London, 11th – 20th November, 2011

Every autumn since before we can remember (sometime aroud 1975) the best jazz musicians in the world and their acolytes have gathered in London for a couple of weeks of London jazz, blues, be bop, soul and every imaginable form of jam session. There are gala concert events, tributes to late, great artists, club nights and impromptu alfresco sessions. Everything goes totally jazzy for a fortnight and fans travel from far and wide to watch the masters at work. It's a perfect autumnal festival – kind of blue, but totally exciting.

The London Jazz Festival is held at various venues around town including The Roundhouse, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, and the Purcell Room. If the weather is good enough the action often spills onto pavements in Soho, the Southbank and West London. Concurrent with the formal festival, you can expect a mass of great gigs and jam sessions all over London as the greats of the jazz world visit old haunts like 606, the Dysart Arms, the Cabbage Patch, the Bulls Head Barnes, the Rising Sun, the Vortex Dalston, Le Quecumbar and of course, Ronnie Scott's.

Friday 11th Nov Line Up:

Barbican
London Jazz Festival Orchestra

Southbank Centre/Royal Festival Hall
Zakir Hussain
Niladri Kumar

Southbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall
Stephan Micus


Southbank Centre/Purcell Room
Steve Coleman

Saturday 12th Nov Line Up:

Barbican
McCoy Tyner Trio feat. Jose James & Chris Potter

Sunday 13th Nov Line Up:

Southbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall
Steve Swallow Quintet
The Impossible Gentlemen

Monday 14th Nov Line Up:

Southbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall
Michel Portal

Thursday 17th Nov Line Up:

Southbank Centre/Royal Festival Hall
Richard Galliano & La Strada Quintet

Friday 18th Nov Line Up:

Southbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall
Roy Haynes
Fountain of Youth Band
Peter King

London Wigmore Hall
Abdullah Ibrahim

Saturday 19th Nov Line Up:

Southbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall
Henry Threadgill

Sunday 20th Nov Line Up:

Southbank Centre/Queen Elizabeth Hall
Bill Frisell & 858 Quartet

Southbank Centre/ Purcell Room
Lucian Ban

Check the London Jazz Festival website for news about this year's event.

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