Late Night Jazz: Olivia Murphy, Andrew Woodhead and Lewis Daniel at Royal Albert Hall

Starts: 8:00pm, Doors: 7:30pm

A special edition of Late Night Jazz, featuring a line-up of young talent from EFG London Jazz Festival's prestigious Take Five development programme.

Olivia Murphy has quickly established herself as an innovative, creative and colourful artist working in jazz composition and has developed her own distinct and personal voice. Her music fuses contemporary composition with elements of free improvisation, while always keeping storytelling at its core, hailed as “some of the most exciting large ensemble jazz emerging from the London scene today” (UK Jazz News). Murphy's Moonrise Ensemble, featuring long term collaborators Olly Chalk and Becca Wilkins, is a vehicle for Murphy to explore smaller scale composition and song-writing. The trio’s first performance at London Jazz Festival will be an opportunity to hear new music, also featuring guitarist Daniel Kemshell.

Swing You Sinners is the brainchild of pianist/composer Andrew Woodhead, inspired by the collectivism heard in the early jazz recordings of Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Cab Calloway, and how these tunes can be brought kicking and screaming into the 21st century by a group of forward-thinking improvisers. Born out of a love of Fleischer Studios’ dark, surreal animations which captured the spirit of depression-era New York City, the band revels in the same sense of anarchy and the joy of creativity which these animators first showed to the world in the late 20s and 30s. 

Lewis Daniel is a saxophonist/singer and composer from South London. Lewis has worked creatively over the last few years as an arranger/session musician for many artists including The House Gospel Choir, Boadi, The Last Dinosaur, Rachel Kerr and Tom Grennan. His career has seen him perform at venues including the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Ronnie Scott’s, and the O2 Arena. Having studied at The BRIT School, The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and with The Tomorrow's Warriors programme, Lewis draws on a plethora of influences to create his own unique sound.