EFG London Jazz Festival: Jazz Voice 2024

This year, the star-studded Jazz Voice event celebrates the music of iconic tastemaker labels from motown to concorde, and from blue note to impulse, which introduced great artists and genres to the scene. Showcasing soul music, jazz-infused contemporary R&B, epic jazz songs and funk, there’s something here for every taste, wherever it was made. Growing from jazz soloist and sideman, through bandleader, composer and latterly one of the most indemand arrangers in Europe, Guy Barker has been described as ‘a brilliant soloist, a born leader and a generous accompanist. He can play so your heart breaks or your head swivels’ (Anthony Minghella). Peter Edwards is a composer, pianist and musical director whose ‘guileless, soulful music…[is] full of emphatic chording, Latin grooves and romantic, cinematic themes’ (Guardian). He composes for stage and screen, directs the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, and leads his own trio.