Past events

50th Anniversary of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra!

50th Anniversary of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra!

March 6, 2020

Five decades of music, seventeen improvisers and three extraordinary evenings in one extraordinary city. At the beginning of March, improvised jazz lovers will have something really special to look forward to!

New Year’s Eve at Alchemia – TALES OF MOSS AND FERN

New Year’s Eve at Alchemia – TALES OF MOSS AND FERN

December 31, 2019

Part the leaves and look closer. The forest pulsates. It teems with the music of flowing juices and resins, in the rhythm of the strobes of gleaming shadows, frantically moving legs and antennae. We are feverish and delirious, our fast pulse sets the pace for the DJ. Our warm, hastened […]

THE YOUNG MOTHERS

THE YOUNG MOTHERS

November 4, 2019

This American band may turn out to be the biggest surprise of the festival. They combine jazz, noise, hip hop, electronics and African music, often in just one song. The band was formed in 2012 in Austin, Texas by Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Atomic, The Thing), a collaborator of […]

BALLISTER

BALLISTER

October 28, 2019

“The trio of saxophonist Dave Rempis, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love has the capacity to annihilate ears, but the art here is the manner in which they run their race” writes Mark Carroto at All About Jazz. This freejazz power trio met for the first time in a […]