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#KeyboardLessons - Eldar Djangirov's explains his strategy for solo #jazz piano.
READ MORE: http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/eldars-strategy-for-solo-jazz-piano/151890

Tomorrow Night at @Jazz_Mate : Noha Taha Acoustic Night with Karim Hossam .. more details on Yallabreak http://www.yallabreak.com/events/view/noha-taha-acoustic-night-with-karim-hossam/ … #Events #Jazz

Sunday, 14th July 2013

underdog, 51 bethnal green road, shoreditch, E1 6LA

Swing supergroup, combining powerful vocals, dynamite rhythm and heavenly horns... Dynamic and entertaining

With a classic line up of vocals, rhythm guitar, drums, double bass and a horn section, including trombone, trumpet and clarinet, The Smokey Taps play high-energy swing and gypsy jazz and have a blinding reputation for getting the whole joint swinging!

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Saturday 21st September 2013

The Tivoli, 52 Costin St, Fortitude Valley

Now in its sensational sixth year, The Gangsters’ Ball is on its way back to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane this September!

A fully themed night of interactive and non-stop entertainment, The Gangsters’ Ball brings to life the fashion, style, humour and classic entertainment of the 1930s and 40s. Modern day mobsters and molls can step back in time to a bygone era where men wore three-piece suits and fedoras, women wore feathers and pill box hats, big bands ruled the airwaves and gangsters ruled the streets.

Featuring the biggest names in Australian & international cabaret, sideshow vaudeville, magic, burlesque and big band swing, this is an event like no other and one not to be missed.

Each year nearly 4,000 gangsters, molls and flappers attend The Gangsters' Ball shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and now the Gangsters’ Ball is thrilled to be going global with plans underway for shows in Europe, Asia and America - including nightly casino shows in Las Vegas.

This year’s headline acts include MC Chanteuse - Madame Leila Leontine, world renowned New York based Broadville troupe - the Pretty Things Peepshow, award-winning acrobatic troupe - Acrobatica, master of illusion - Adam Mada and juggler extraordinaire - Jeremy Ansley. Also featuring aerial performers Aerialicious, burlesque troupe The Bombshells! hula hooper Josie Jupiter, the Empire Swing performance troupe and 10-piece swing band The Velvet Set performing live.

Every show also features Australia’s best swing, rock ,n, roll & Jump Blues DJs, The Gambling Den - with Poker, Roulette and Black Jack tables, swing dancing performances, pin-up models, merchandise stalls, cocktail bars, a vintage styling parlour and 1930’s themed photo booth with one lucky attendee in the running for a VIP trip for 2 people to see the Gangsters’ Ball in Las Vegas.

For the first time ever The Gangsters’ Ball will feature in the Sydney Fringe Festival with Gangsters’ Ball Sideshows in Sydney & Melbourne, starring the Pretty Things Peepshow in a night of vaudeville, cabaret, burlesque and broadville mayhem!

Dress code: is strictly 1920s to '50s gangsters, flappers, molls, burlesque, vintage glamour and dance hall swing.

Tickets for The Gangsters’ Ball go on sale on Friday 7th June 2013.

Tickets are available via: www.ticketek.com.au or Phone Bookings 132 849

Tickets for all shows are strictly limited to ensure sufficient dance floor space.

For more information visit the official website: www.gangstersball.com.au

Saturday 14th September 2013

Forum Theatre, 154 Flinders St, Melbourne

Now in its sensational sixth year, The Gangsters’ Ball is on its way back to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane this September!

A fully themed night of interactive and non-stop entertainment, The Gangsters’ Ball brings to life the fashion, style, humour and classic entertainment of the 1930s and 40s. Modern day mobsters and molls can step back in time to a bygone era where men wore three-piece suits and fedoras, women wore feathers and pill box hats, big bands ruled the airwaves and gangsters ruled the streets.

Featuring the biggest names in Australian & international cabaret, sideshow vaudeville, magic, burlesque and big band swing, this is an event like no other and one not to be missed.

Each year nearly 4,000 gangsters, molls and flappers attend The Gangsters' Ball shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and now the Gangsters’ Ball is thrilled to be going global with plans underway for shows in Europe, Asia and America - including nightly casino shows in Las Vegas.

This year’s headline acts include MC Chanteuse - Madame Leila Leontine, world renowned New York based Broadville troupe - the Pretty Things Peepshow, award-winning acrobatic troupe - Acrobatica, master of illusion - Adam Mada and juggler extraordinaire - Jeremy Ansley. Also performing in Melbourne is sword swallowing world-record holder Aerial Manx, burlesque troupe Sapphira’s Showgirls, hula hooper Anna Lumb, the Echoes of Harlem swing dance performance troupe and 10-piece swing band The Red Hot Rhythmakers performing live.

Every show also features Australia’s best swing, rock 'n' roll & Jump Blues DJs, The Gambling Den - with Poker, Roulette and Black Jack tables, swing dancing performances, pin-up models, merchandise stalls, cocktail bars, a vintage styling parlour and 1930’s themed photo booth with one lucky attendee in the running for a VIP trip for 2 people to see the Gangsters’ Ball in Las Vegas.

For the first time ever The Gangsters’ Ball will feature in the Sydney Fringe Festival with Gangsters’ Ball Sideshows in Sydney & Melbourne, starring the Pretty Things Peepshow in a night of vaudeville, cabaret, burlesque and broadville mayhem!

Dress code: is strictly 1920s to '50s gangsters, flappers, molls, burlesque, vintage glamour and dance hall swing.

Tickets for The Gangsters’ Ball go on sale on Friday 7th June 2013.

Tickets are available via: www.ticketmaster.com.auPhone Bookings 136 100

Tickets for all shows are strictly limited to ensure sufficient dance floor space.

For more information visit the official website: www.gangstersball.com.au

Friday, 5th July 2013

Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch,E1 6LA

Arts Canteen presents Hijaz - a Belgium-based six-piece jazz fusion with a warm melodic and distinctly cosmopolitan sound

Built around the ‘oud and the piano, their work is a heady mix of musical influences drawn from the Arab World and Europe

This is ensemble work at its best, with each musician and artist cleverly balanced against each other in a cultural paste of musical spices

Jazz might have grown out of the West African/European melting pot, but here it feels very much at home in this Mediterranean setting

Part of Shubbak Festival - Shubbak, Window on Contemporary Arab Culture

Wednesday, 3rd July 2013

Upstairs at the Ritzy, Brixton Oval, Brixton, SW2 1JG

Monthly jam session centered around North African, Gnawa, Middle Eastern, Latin and Balkan tunes and grooves, with jazz-influenced improvisations from Melange Collective

Concert followed by jam session with guests from the top of the World Music scene in London.; also open to musicians, so please bring an instrument and come and introduce yourself, or just come and enjoy… Summer's come Upstairs!

Sunday, 22nd December 2013

Half Moon Putney, 93 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, SW15 1EU

Ducks Deluxe celebrated their 40th Anniversary in 2012

One of the first pub rock bands, the Ducks played basic American-style blues and boogie.

Saturday, 13th July 2013

Jubilee Park, Galliard Road, Edmonton, N9 7RH

Presented by Funky Festival Company, Ziggy's World Jazz Club, Artstart, Love Your Doorstep and Enfield Council

Come away with the faeries at this free festival with live music presented by Ziggy's World Jazz Cabaret including MICA PARIS on Saturday 13th July

With fab food stalls (artisan pizzas, hog roast, Caribbean cuisine), craft activities, a Faerie Queen Trail, drumming circle, story telling and the Atlantis Holistic Hollow with natural therapy stalls

To book a stall please contact Lynn Saunders on 07982 824 230

Access to children's workshops and craft activities is with a £5 wristband

General admission is free.

Friday, 14th June 2013

Half Moon Putney, 93 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, SW15 1EU

Made up of a core of professional musicians who have worked - and played - together for over seven years, Jazzbomb have performed every major London venue from the top of the Gherkin to the Savoy Ballroom, their individual CVs featuring great names such as Bobby McFerrin, Michael Buble, Jamie Cullum, Tony Bennett, Will Young, Jools Holland, Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney

Sam Chaplin Sam Chaplin's rich and smooth Sinatra vocals combined with real gospel fire make for an explosive show

He has that rare ability to draw any audience into the eye of the party

While he's catching his breath he'll turn up the heat of the party with a biting trumpet solo! He is a front man in demand and has performed at jazz clubs across the capital

Sam writes and arranges the music for the band, carefully crafting a great event

Ticklin The Pickle

Hailing from the South Coast of England, TTP have been laying down the funk for over a decade

They have appeared alongside the James Taylor Quartet, The Wailers, Leroy Hutson, Rose Royce, Alan Hawkshaw, and Selina Jones

They have performed at The Isle of Wight Festival, Vintage at Goodwood Festival, Blues On The Farm, Boogaloo Festival, The Wedgewood Rooms, The Borderline Club, The Leas Cliff Halls, Dartmouth Festival, Lymne Castle, and numerous clubs, functions and events.

Saturday, 6th July 2013

Upstairs at the Ritzy, Brixton Oval, Brixton, SW2 1JG

Summer BBQ Special!

Not since the late, great SE Rogie, has there been a truly notable recording of palm wine music from Sierra Leone… but guitarist extraordinaire, Abdul Tee-Jay, best known as leader of the electric Sierra Leone dance music group Rokoto, has broken this musical fast

On a diet of ‘milo jazz', Ghanaian/Nigerian High-life, Guinean Bembeya Jazz,Congolese Soukous the traditional street music of his home in Freetown and even Appalachian Hillbilly music, whilst studying in West Virginia - he has grown to create something uplifting, unique, and inspiring

After playing in various bands, including African Connection and African Culture, in 1988 he formed the groundbreaking Rokoto, with the mission to evolve a modern Sierra Leonian music

// At the height of the ‘World Music' boom, Rokoto achieved considerable success, touring the world and playing to packed houses and releasing three acclaimed albums, including E'Go Lef Pan You… Now he is back shaking London, just like you will not be able to help but shake the floors! With Cowfoot Prince Usifu Jalloh opening the night with his crazy Sierra Leone musical story-telling, and DJs Volta45, Chief Commander Yaaba & friends kicking the vinyl jams out onto the terrace until laaate.

Monday, 1st July 2013

Upstairs at the Ritzy, Brixton Oval, Brixton, SW2 1JG

A night dedicated to the past and present of vinyl culture

Paying homage to the inspiring sounds of jazz, Soul, Hip-Hop, Rare Groove and Reggae

Come and kick back to the crackling sound of needle to record; licking the deck in a way that takes you back to a time when music spoke to your soul.

Saturday 7th September 2013

Metro Theatre, 624 George St, Sydney

Now in its sensational sixth year, The Gangsters’ Ball is on its way back to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane this September!

A fully themed night of interactive and non-stop entertainment, The Gangsters’ Ball brings to life the fashion, style, humour and classic entertainment of the 1930s and 40s. Modern day mobsters and molls can step back in time to a bygone era where men wore three-piece suits and fedoras, women wore feathers and pill box hats, big bands ruled the airwaves and gangsters ruled the streets.

Featuring the biggest names in Australian & international cabaret, sideshow vaudeville, magic, burlesque and big band swing, this is an event like no other and one not to be missed.

Each year nearly 4,000 gangsters, molls and flappers attend The Gangsters' Ball shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and now the Gangsters’ Ball is thrilled to be going global with plans underway for shows in Europe, Asia and America - including nightly casino shows in Las Vegas.

This year’s headline acts include MC Chanteuse - Madame Leila Leontine, world renowned New York based Broadville troupe - the Pretty Things Peepshow, award-winning acrobatic troupe - Acrobatica, master of illusion - Adam Mada and juggler extraordinaire - Jeremy Ansley. Also performing in Sydney is the reigning Miss Burlesque NSW - Kelly Ann Doll, sideshow vaudeville performer - Captain Finhead, the world’s most dangerous violin duo- Strings on Fire, the Sydney Swing Katz performance troupe and 10-piece swing band - The Velvet Set.

Every show also features Australia’s best swing, rock ,n, roll & Jump Blues DJs, The Gambling Den - with Poker, Roulette and Black Jack tables, swing dancing performances, pin-up models, merchandise stalls, cocktail bars, a vintage styling parlour and 1930’s themed photo booth with one lucky attendee in the running for a VIP trip for 2 people to see the Gangsters’ Ball in Las Vegas.

For the first time ever The Gangsters’ Ball will feature in the Sydney Fringe Festival with Gangsters’ Ball Sideshows in Sydney & Melbourne, starring the Pretty Things Peepshow in a night of vaudeville, cabaret, burlesque and broadville mayhem!

Dress code: is strictly 1920s to '50s gangsters, flappers, molls, burlesque, vintage glamour and dance hall swing.

Tickets for The Gangsters’ Ball go on sale on Friday 7th June 2013.

Tickets are available via: www.ticketek.com.au or Phone Bookings 132 849

Tickets for all shows are strictly limited to ensure sufficient dance floor space.

For more information visit the official website: www.gangstersball.com.au

Friday 14th June 2013

This is going to be an amazing night!

Pest have toured extensively as a headline act across the UK and Europe, as well as supporting artists including Nitin Sawhney, DJ Food, Soweto Kinch and Roni Size to name a few. With two previous acclaimed album releases through Ninjatune, Pest are always developing, always writing, and may often be found lurking round a corner ready to say “Boo!” to the obvious.

Jouis are a 5-piece band based in Brighton on the South Coast of England. They lace psychedelic progressive jazz with rhythmic and melodic experimentation, traveling to as far as they can reach in search of like-minded people to share their music, thoughts and good vibes with.
Jouis is a French word roughly translated as 'to be enjoyed' (derived from 'Jouissance'), a philosophy the band has upheld since its inception.

If this isn't enough for you there's also powerful foot stomping madness from 'The Ali Warren Band' and the superb voice of Jocie Juritz.

All tickets for this gig allow you entrance to the club night at Cargo that follows.

Monday, 29th July 2013

Brasserie and Wine Bar Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, SE11 4RN

Jason Lyon - PianoDee Byrne - SaxophoneGábor Dörnyei - DrumsAlan Gibson - Bass

20% Off all Bar Food and Drinks for all participants

Every Monday night the "Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec" presents a showcase for London's brightest jazz talent

The house quartet warms things up from 8.30pm, the jam session starts in earnest at 9.30pm and we keep on swinging all the way through to 'round midnight'

Musicians get to play with a top-flight international rhythm section; listeners get to enjoy tomorrow's big names today - for free

We've even had the occasional star drop by, incognito..

Sometimes it sounds like a miniature big band, sometimes it's a cool bossa group or a fiery blues and funk session

It's friendly and informal, and you never know quite what you're going to get

That's jazz! And that's why we enjoy hosting this session

Come down and join in the fun

Venue provides a professional sound system, baby grand piano,
drums, double bass and acoustic guitar.

Sunday, 28th July 2013

Brasserie and Wine Bar Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, SE11 4RN

Daughter of British comedy legend Dick Emery, Eliza is the third generation of Emery's to enter the entertainment business

In London her ‘vocal highs' have been heard on Jazz, Heart and Kiss FM in a series of vocal ‘idents' to publicize the stations as well as the cities most renowned and coveted spot

Eliza's most recent performance was at The IndigO2

To see video of this event click here

Eliza has recorded ‘ I Have Nothing', her new single with multi award winning producer Jay Newland in New York

Her debut album ‘Jigsaw' contains much of her own material

She was Carlton TV's ‘Diva of the Week' on 'The Warehouse'. She played on Oliver award winner Ruthie Henshall's solo album 'Pilgrim' and was booked for the ITV's 50th anniversary party attended by such names as Simon Cowell, Michael Parkinson and Shirley Bassey

Private bookings include the British Livery Association at The Ritz Club attended by HRH Princess Anne

Eliza was recently interviewed by David Walliams (Little Britain) on BBC Radio 2's 'Comedy Legends' discussing her father and playing the song she wrote in his memory from her debut album 'Jigsaw' and has just been booked for seven headline cabarets on the world's most exclusive cruise line

Eliza is available for business and private bookings worldwide

She is self contained on piano or available with her all girl band Sax in the City.

Friday, 26th July 2013

Brasserie and Wine Bar Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, SE11 4RN

Katarina Sandell - VocalsRoss Anderson - TrumpetAlan Gibson - Double BassT.B.C - Drums

Born and bred in Sweden, Katarina began her music career by singing old traditional folk songs with her accordion playing father

At the age of 12 she was taken under the wings of Stig Johansson, one of the key figures in the cultural life of her region, and soon became a familiar face on the professional circuit

The life and culture of London have influenced Katarina to push her voice and develop her musical style

Her big powerhouse vocals have fitted comfortably into the gospel scene prompting Colin Vassell to recruit her as one of the select few in his "new revelation singers", who make regular tours on the continent

Her jazz style is heavily influenced by the old greats like Nancy Wilson, Dinah Washington and Etta Jones, but also permeated by the sounds of soul giants like Aretha Franklin, Etta James and Marlena Shaw

Katarina has recorded a jazz album "nights at the dog house" with jlq and also delivered power and soul to the albums "promised land" and "Lowlife melodies" by one of Bob Harris favourite bands "The fake lazy supernovas"

With her musical roots in the pure serenity of Swedish folk music, combined with ecstatic black gospel that has no boundaries, you never know what to expect from this woman

Take some classic jazz standards, some blues favourites and some old soul classics, mix that with the sound of Aretha, Etta and Dinah, add a pinch of Ella and Sarah and you get the sound of Katarina Sandell.

Thursday, 25th July 2013

Brasserie and Wine Bar Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, SE11 4RN

Juliana Yazbeck is a jazz and soul vocalist and also is a professional actress joined by Jazz/Soul Guitarist Robin Banerjee

The Duo made their debut at Camden's Bar Solo in June 2012 where Robin played with Amy Winehouse in 2006

After starring in an Emmy-winning BBC World Service Trust web series entitled "Shankaboot" (shankaboot.com), Juliana moved to London to pursue a Masters degree in Performance Making from Goldsmiths College, from which she has recently graduated at age 23 with distinction

She now lives in London and works as a singer and actor in London and the Middle East

Guitarist Robin Banerjee has toured the world, playing extensively in Europe and U.S.A with Universal/Island artist Amy Winehouse (2006-2007), appearing also on her album Back to Black and 'Live In London DVD at Shepherds Bush Empire, performing at Glastonbury's Pyramid (75,000 people) and World stages (40,000 people) on the same day/eve in 2007.

Wednesday, 24th July 2013

Brasserie and Wine Bar Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, SE11 4RN

Inspired as much by 70's soul as by the jazz greats, Zena has been acclaimed by the jazz media for her touching and persuasive voice and her funky new take on popular and rare jazz gems and irresistible, low-down R&B sounds


"She's very very good live indeed ...you'll have a marvellous time!"
Bob Sinfield, "Jazz FM" Dinner Jazz show, 10 Jan 2012
"With a brave leap into the soul-laden subtle groove end of the jazz spectrum, Zena projects on stage a warm, engaging personality and an infectious sense of enjoyment." Brian Blain, Jazz UK
"Emotive delivery...compelling originals" - The Independent

"Warm sultry voice...top class" - Musician Magazine