London Jazz Festival 2011

The London Jazz Festival takes place from Friday 11th to Sunday 20th November 2011. The event is held at various venues around London including The Roundhouse, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, and the Purcell Room.

Featuring a mix of premieres, new commissions and collaborations with world famous stars and emerging talent. The event has more performances are in more venues than any other live event in the capital, along with the Festival's renowned education programme and its Jazz for Free strand, to create the UK's biggest international jazz festival.

Line-up

Friday 11 November
Jazz Voice: Celebrating a Century of Song
Barbican
Part of the EFG International Excellence Series

Friday 11 November
Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion
Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall

Friday 11 November
Stephan Micus
Southbank Centre / Queen Elizabeth Hall

Friday 11 November
Steve Coleman: Reflex
Southbank Centre / Purcell Room

Saturday 12 November
McCoy Tyner Trio featuring Jose James and Chris Potter
Impulse! Records at 50
Barbican
Part of the EFG International Excellence Series

Saturday 12 November
Buck Clayton Legacy Band
Southbank Centre / Purcell Room

Saturday 12 November
Roy Eldridge and Charlie Shavers: The Trumpet Battle
Southbank Centre / Purcell Room

Sunday 13 November
Steve Swallow Quintet
+ The Impossible Gentlemen
Southbank Centre / Queen Elizabeth Hall

Sunday 13 November
LOUIS: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin and the birth of jazz
Barbican

Monday 14 November
Michel Portal
Southbank Centre / Queen Elizabeth Hall

Tuesday 15 November
Phil Robson's IMS Quintet featuring Mark Turner + Christine Tobin
Southbank Centre / Purcell Room

Tuesday 15 November
David Sanborn featuring Joey De Francesco
Southbank Centre / Queen Elizabeth Hall

Wednesday 16 November
Stefano Bollani with special guest Martial Solal + Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Barbican

Wednesday 16 November
Phronesis
Southbank Centre / Purcell Room

Wednesday 16 November
Nik Bartsch Roninbr /> LONDON Kings Place / Hall One

Thursday 17 November
Richard Galliano Strada Quintet
A tribute to Nino Rota
Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall

Thursday 17 November
Jazz at Cafe Society
China Moses, Gwyneth Herbert & Alexander Stewart
Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall

Thursday 17 November
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kuhn
Southbank Centre / Queen Elizabeth Hall

Thursday 17 November
Robert Glasper
LONDON Kings Place / Hall One

Friday 18 November
Roy Haynes: Fountain of Youth Band
+ Peter King
Southbank Centre / Queen Elizabeth Hall

Friday 18 November
Abdullah Ibrahim
Wigmore Hall

Friday 18 November
Cesaria Evora
Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall

Friday 18 November
Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra
Barbican

Friday 18 November
Gretchen Parlato
LONDON Kings Place / Hall One

Saturday 19 November
Henry Threadgill: Zooid
Southbank Centre / Queen Elizabeth Hall

Saturday 19 November
Portico Quartet
Southbank Centre / Purcell Room

Saturday 19 November
Fringe Magnetic
LONDON Kings Place / Hall One

Saturday 19 November
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra
Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall

Saturday 19 November
Beats & Pieces
LONDON Kings Place / Hall One

Sunday 20 November
Bill Frisell: 858 Quartet
Southbank Centre / Queen Elizabeth Hall

Sunday 20 November
Hermeto Pascoal
Barbican

Sunday 20 November
Lucian Ban
Southbank Centre / Purcell Room

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