Tag: jazz london

Jazz Wednesdays at the Underdog Gallery

Published on 06th August 2019

Join the Underdog Gallery every Wednesday night for our live underground jazz residency with a quartet from The New Jazz Mags. Doors at 6pm. Free entry. Choose a cocktail from their latest pop up with Mixtales Cocktails, kick back and relax with great art and music. The New JazzMags (NJM’s) are a seven-piece vocal-led hip jazz and underground funk grooves band. Operating since 2013, the NJM’s features an all-star line up of top London based musicians with many years of live and recorded music performance between them. Influences span Jazz, Soul and Funk repertoires and draw on the work of artists/bands like The Meters, Melvin, Sparks, Galactic, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Quantic and Stevie Wonder. Find out more

Kansas Smitty’s House Band at the Bridge Theatre

Published on 03rd December 2018

Kansas Smitty’s House Band are coming to the Bridge Theatre for a special performance on the 9th December. This tight-knit outfit makes jazz inclusive with an emphasis on camaraderie, spontaneity and joy. Book tickets The eight-piece group were brought together from diverse backgrounds by American woodwind player, Giacomo Smith. Grounded in a shared love for the whole jazz tradition, the group is perpetually inventing new music with the aim that no two shows ever be the same, premiering new music at each show. 2018 has been a landmark year so far. The House Band was recently nominated for Best UK Jazz Act by Jazz FM and has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican.