London Jazz Festival

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London Jazz Festival
GenreJazz
DatesNovember
Location(s)London, England
Years active1992–present
Capacity10,000
Websiteefglondonjazzfestival.org.uk

The London Jazz Festival is a

Ronnie Scott's and the Vortex Jazz Club
. It is produced by Serious.

History

In 1970 the

London Arts Board.[1]

In 2011, the festival was produced in association with BBC Radio 3.[2] The festival is branded as the EFG London Jazz Festival, reflecting headline sponsorship since 2013 by EFG Private Bank, part of Switzerland's EFG International.[3]

A history of the festival was published in 2017 to commemorate its 25th anniversary.

Arts & Humanities Research Council
(2015–16). McKay was the inaugural Professor in Residence at the 2014 festival, and Webster the Researcher-in-Residence in 2016. The book covers the history of London as a city of jazz festivals since about 1949 and includes material on festivals at Bracknell, Camden, Crawley, and Richmond/Reading.

In 2018, the final of the BBC Young Jazz Musician competition formed part of the festival, and the performances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall were broadcast the following day by BBC Four.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b "About". EFG London Jazz Festival. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  2. ^ "All That Jazz - the London Jazz Festival". Music Malt. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  3. ^ "Festival partners". EFG London Jazz Festival. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  4. ^ Webster, Emma; McKay, George (10 November 2017). "Music from Out There, In Here: 25 Years of the London Jazz Festival" (PDF). Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  5. ^ "BBC Young Jazz Musician". BBC Four. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  6. ^ "BBC Four - BBC Young Musician, 2018, Jazz Final". BBC.

External links

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