Stop Press Cigdem Aslan will be onstage with Luna Kalamata at 8pm. However, the event starts at 6:30pm and finishes at 11:00 and there are other wonderful acts. Luna Kalamata will have a special percussion section for this gig as Fotis and Patrick are unavailable. Philip Arditti will play darbouka and Tahir Palali will be […]
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Coming up so far in November Friday 6th November with LV Project featuring Pepa Niebla and guest guitarist Matt Smith at Jazz After Dark, Greek Street, Soho, London playing jazz, fusion, samba and soul. 10:30pm – 2:30am Saturday 21st November with Luna Kalamata at a time and venue to be confirmed in Hackney, London. Luna […]
Coming up so far in October Friday 9th October with “Rock ‘n’ Rollers” at The Underwriter, EC3, London – playing rock and roll, blues and reggae covers. 9pm Friday 16th October with LV Project featuring Pepa Niebla at Jazz After Dark, Greek Street, Soho, London playing jazz, fusion, samba and soul. 10:30pm – 2:30am Friday […]
OK! This month, so far we have: Friday 4th September with LV Project at Jazz After Dark 10:30pm – 2:30am – jazz, funky jazz, groovy jazz, reggae jazz, latin jazz, bossa nova, samba and soul featuring a great quartet with a fine singer. Greek St, Soho, London Sunday 13th September at Gillespie Park Festival in […]
It’s a busy old time with musical friends returning to London from all over the world. For some reason the drummers are last to return so I have the opportunity to play with some new drummers. Upcoming: Friday 28th August: LV Project featuring Susana Lang Lenton, Jazz After Dark, Greek Street, Soho, London. 10:30pm – […]
Bass. Music is basically oom-pah or oom-pah-pah and we bassists are responsible for the oom. Truth is in most styles of music it’s pretty similar. We play roots and roots and fifths in so many types of music. It took me ages to realise that the skill in playing bass often came from playing the […]
After a long absence Balkan acoustic melodicists Luna Kalamata are getting back together to play the Gillespie Park festival in North London in September. Luna Kalamata formed to play music that they loved from Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and the Balkans. Later we added Klezmer and other music to the repertoire. Luna Kalamata are a large […]
Here are the July dates for LV Project. We are playing at our regular venue Jazz After Dark in Greek Street Soho. As it says on the tin, it is ‘jazz’ and it is ‘after dark’. We play standard tunes mostly and we interpret them in a meaningful and fresh way. Sometimes that means a […]
LV Project have a couple of dates this May. We are playing at our regular venue Jazz After Dark in Greek Street Soho. As it says on the tin, it is ‘jazz’ and it is ‘after dark’. We play standard tunes mostly and we interpret them in a meaningful and fresh way. Sometimes that means […]
—edit—kind of funny now, I more rarely drink cappuccino though it remains a good test, I tend towards flat whites and macchiatos and espressos on the whole—edit—(August 2010) I finally learned to spell Cappuccino. I like espresso and other espresso-based drinks (especially macchiato) but cappuccino is the one I most often seek out – and […]
Phil Wain 