Jazz at the Wigmore Hall, London

[Pianorak]

One for your diary?

http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/klaus-gesing-reeds

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

a taste of Herr Gesing

[Dave2002]

I heard Gwilym Simcock recently. An acquired taste I'd say. Might go better with Gesing.

[Serial_Apologist]

Far too expensive imv. BTW there is a Jazz messageboard; you don't need to take off your shoes to enter.

[Pianorak]

BTW there is a Jazz messageboard; you don't need to take off your shoes to enter.

True - been there with my shoes on - but since Wigmore Hall and Jazz don't usually go hand in hand I thought I opt for Performance.

[doversoul1]

Gwilym Simcock is a former New Generation Artist. I expect that is the Wigmore Hall connection. I often wonder if Radio3 is a good place for a young jazz musician to start from or associated with. Radio3 can offer jazz to the listeners but can it offer Jazz musicians anything substantially useful? I know classical music and jazz can learn from each other etc. but I wonder how much Radio3-ised jazz is appreciated by ‘mainly jazz’ Jazz listeners?

[ed] I don’t mean that jazz listeners are so narrow-minded that they’d judge the music by association but it must colour or shape the music in some way, I’d have thought.