Making their Kings Place debut, Leeds-based Spiritual jazz ensemble Ancient Infinity Orchestra celebrate the launch of their new album, 'It's Always About Liberation'. A gathering of voices, traditions, and energies converging into something timeless, their music is a journey inward and outward, always reaching toward the universal.
Award-winning band Snowpoet celebrate 15 years together with a special London performance. Joined by guest artists, the group will perform music from across their acclaimed catalogue, blending folk, electronic and ambient influences in songs from Heartstrings, Thought You Knew and Wait For Me.
Daniel Herskedal is a musician and composer of extraordinary imagination, renowned for pushing the boundaries of the tuba and bass trumpet. Blending the spirit of jazz with the compositional craft of classical music, he creates music of striking beauty, depth and originality.
Two of the UK’s leading saxophonists, Denys Baptiste and Tony Kofi, reunite for Legacy: Coltrane & Cannonball, honouring the landmark partnership of Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley and John Coltrane.
Award Winning UK born, US based Trumpeter Alexandra Ridout brings her NYC quartet to Kings Place, featuring some of the most exciting young musicians on the city’s contemporary jazz scene. United by a shared commitment to original music and creative collaboration, the quartet offers a snapshot of the vibrant musical community at the heart of New York jazz today.
Kings Place Jazz Orchestra returns to Hall One to celebrate 70 years of Bernstein’s iconic West Side Story. At its heart is Creative Director Callum Au’s six-movement suite, reimagining the musical’s most famous melodies for big band.
In a daring blend of old and new, Shetland Islands native Norman and Glasgow’s Corrie dive into the rich musical heritage of the Shetland Islands, resurrecting archival melodies that have never seen the light of day.
Alice Zawadzki presents a new version of her acclaimed chamber opera, Bag of Bones, an immersive work of inherited memory, Eastern European folklore and cultural severance, blending strings, accordion, keyboards and voice.
Anatole Muster brings together virtuosity, experimentation and internet-age influences, creating a vibrant, unmistakably personal sound that has taken him from online collaborations to sold out stages.
Olivia Murphy and her Orchestra celebrate the release of their sophomore album, performing major recent works by the award-winning composer. The concert will feature selections from Murphy's critically acclaimed debut album "Fateful Birds & Fledgling Stories", followed by the Orchestra's first ever London performance of "Siren Cycle", adding strings and four vocalists alongside the Big Band.
Accomplished saxophonist and clarinettist Giacomo Smith brings early jazz into the present with Routes in Ragtime, a programme of original music inspired by the Great Migration and the pioneering generation that created jazz.
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From its New Orleans roots to the big-band brilliance of Ellington and Basie and the vocal artistry of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, Kings Place Jazz Orchestra traces jazz’s changing sound across generations.
French-Congolese fusion outfit Kolinga, led by singer Rébecca M'Boungou, brings a compelling mix of contemporary music, jazz and Bantu music to Kings Place for an exclusive performance.
Experience the vibrant sounds of Trinidad & Tobago with Marlon the Pannist. Joined by a dynamic mixed-instrument ensemble, he celebrates the rich heritage of the steelpan through original compositions, imaginative arrangements and infectious Caribbean rhythms.
Blurring classical, jazz, folk and music theatre, Alice Zawadzki creates an elemental new song cycle inspired by her grandmother’s writing, with voices, percussion and instruments crafted from wood, water, glass and bone.
Vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Alice Zawadzki beckons in ancient female figures of winter folklore, from Italy’s mischievous Befana to Iceland’s terrifying Grýla and Sweden’s radiant Lucia.