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    Pat Metheny

    Got tickets to see Pat Metheny next month ... seen him many times, but this is the first time with the brilliant British pianist Gwilym Simcock, and Linda Oh on bass + regular drummer Antonio Sanchez. Really looking forward to this. Anyone else going?

    I am seeing them at Warwick on the 9th, but also have a ticket for the Barbican (with parking) the following evening (Friday, 10th). I am not able to get to that one, so if anyone wants to buy the ticket off, please PM me. They are also appearing in Hull, Dublin and Belfast.

    (Could the mods make this a 'sticky', please?)

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    no bother Peter. Quite like some of his stuff.
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    The Pat Metheny gig is one of the highlights of the 25th London Jazz Festival.
    http://efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk
    (not really a Festival in the sense of buy an entry ticket and jump from stage to stage..more like pay per concert, some expensive, very, some cheap and some free)

    AoS Jazz n' Blues Club have cherry picked some highlights as well as Pat 'The Hair' Metheny....


    Friday 10 November

    Manu Dibango & The Soul Makossa Gang @ Ronnie Scott’s

    Moses Boyd - Exodus @ Jazz Cafe, Camden

    Tomasz Stańko, Cadogan Hall

    Keith Tippett Octet with Matthew Bourne @ Kings Place (Hall One)

    Bill Charlap and Stephen Keogh @ PizzaExpress Jazz Club

    Tony Kofi & The Organisation @ Crypt Camberwell

    Saturday 11 November

    Chucho Valdés & Gonzalo Rubalcaba @ Barbican

    Andy Sheppard Quartet – Beyond the Dancing Sun + Kadri Voorand with Mikel Mälgand @ Kings Place (Hall One)

    Bilal Karaman Trio Barbican / Free Stage 5pm & 6pm

    Average White Band + LaSharVu @ Southbank Centre / Royal Festival

    Zakir Hussain - Crosscurrents with Dave Holland and Chris Potter @ Barbican

    Michael Wollny + Andreas Schaerer + Vincent Peirani + Emile Parisien and Adam Baldych with Helge Lien Trio @ Cadogan Hall

    Howe Gelb Piano Trio @PizzaExpress Jazz Club

    Pee Wee Ellis Funk Assembly @ Hideaway

    Kirk Lightest Trio @ Live At Zédel

    Sunday 12 November

    Marcus Miller + Ashley Henry@ Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall

    Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau@ Barbican

    John Surman and John Warren - The Brass Project - The Traveller’s Tale @ Kings Place (Hall Two)

    Chris Potter Trio @PizzaExpress Jazz Club

    Soweto Kinch@ Hideaway

    Wolfgang Mutspiel Trio@ Jazz Cafe

    Monday 13 November

    Paolo Conte @Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall

    Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue + The Suffers@ O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire

    Herbie Hancock @ Barbican

    Courtney Pine featuring Omar@ Bridge Theatre

    Mark Guiliana jazz quartet@ Ronnie Scott’s

    Tuesday 14 November

    Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya@ Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall

    Eliane Elias – Samba Brazil @Cadogan Hall

    Wednesday 15 November

    Zara McFarlane + Gabriel Royal @ Rich Mix

    Becca Stevens@ Ronnie Scott’s

    Thursday 16 November

    Bill Laurance - @ Kings Place (Hall One)

    Dee Dee Bridgewater@ Cadogan Hall

    Robert Glasper@ Barbican

    Friday 17 November

    Henri Texier@ Kings Place (Hall One)

    Mike Stern/Dave Weckl band ft Tom Kennedy and Bob Malach @Ronnie Scott’s

    Saturday 18 November

    Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock @ PizzaExpress Jazz Club

    Chasing Trane - Jazz and the Image @ Barbican Cinemas 2&3 FILM

    The Ballad of Fred Hersch - Jazz and the Image @Kings Place (Hall One)

    Pharoah Sanders Quartet + Denys Baptiste + Alina Bzhezhinska: A Concert for Alice and John Coltrane@ Barbican

    Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita@ Milton Court

    Joe Zawinul: Stories of the Danube + Terence Blanchard Quintet with the BBC Concert Orchestra@ Barbican


    Hopefully a few members will get to some of the gigs and check back here on the forum with a review or two!
    Enjoy...
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    Quote Originally Posted by petrat View Post
    Pat Metheny

    Got tickets to see Pat Metheny next month ... seen him many times, but this is the first time with the brilliant British pianist Gwilym Simcock, and Linda Oh on bass + regular drummer Antonio Sanchez. Really looking forward to this. Anyone else going?

    I am seeing them at Warwick on the 9th, but also have a ticket for the Barbican (with parking) the following evening (Friday, 10th). I am not able to get to that one, so if anyone wants to buy the ticket off, please PM me.
    This concert is totally sold out so snap it up if you can off Peter
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    I can’t add a new or upcoming concert, but I can tell you about a great experience that I had years ago. I was living and working in Toronto, Canada. I had discovered jazz and had a part time job selling HiFi in a nearby town. I had been demonstrating Chesky Music CDs and really enjoyed New York Reunion by McCoy Tyner as well as John Pizzarelli’s My Blue Heaven albums.

    I decided to see if either of them ever get to a nearby jazz club and that week McCoy Tyner was playing at the Bermuda Onion on Bloor Street in Toronto. I talked my friend Howard into coming with me and we got there early enough to sit at the table closest to McCoy! Sat there all night absolutely taken with the stellar performance.

    This was back in 1991 or 1992 and I can still remember the shivers that I got as I was gobsmacked at their ability. What a concert!
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    North Sea Jazz Festival .... starts this afternoon.

    There's a few AoS people here in Rotterdam ... and more bands than we could possible see ... choices, choices!

    https://www.northseajazz.com/en/prog...riday-12-july/

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    Well ... I hadn't realised just how massive this festival is. The venue is truly huge (essentially a national exhibition centre), with some stages in arena-sized rooms, holding many thousands, featuring big-draw r'n'b stars like Anita Baker. The 'pop' acts draw a younger audience, so there is a good mix of people at the festival, many seemingly there to soak up the atmosphere and eat from the many sellers of exotic foods, etc.
    Fortunately the smaller rooms had some good jazz, although the huge crowds passing through the buildings make it a bit of a challenge for newbie's to locate, and get to, the next gig.
    All in all, it's at the opposite end of the scale to our British local jazz festivals ... basically, a huge, professional commercial operation.

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