Tri-Borough Music Hub (12pm - 12.30pm)

Next Level Voices are a contemporary choir for 11 – 18-year-olds, formed in lockdown as one of the Tri-borough Music Hub vocal groups. They enjoy singing a range of repertoire, from Laura Mvula, to Hamilton, in largely three-part harmony. This is their second time performing at the London Jazz Festival.

ArtsTrain (1:15pm - 1.45pm)

ArtsTrain are an Arts Council funded organisation who specialise in delivering creative music workshops to young people in Bromley, Bexley and Lewisham. Groups of young people work with a diverse team of Creative Practitioners to create outstanding, new, original music. The ArtsTrain programme is driven by its young people and puts their wellbeing and creative development at its core. We believe making music changes lives and collaborating makes that change even greater. The group of young people performing at this years Jazz festival are from multiple schools, this is the first time they have written and performed together.

Wandworth Jazz Orchestra (2.30pm - 3pm)

The Wandsworth Jazz Orchestra is part of the Wandsworth Music Academy and under the direction of Olly Blackman and Quinn Oulton tackles a wide range of big band repertoire, while honing ensemble technique, stylistic interpretation and improvisation skills. Since its formation in 2015, WJO has moved from strength to strength working with a range of guest artists including Miguel Gorodi, Josephine Davies and currently, trombonist Tom White. The Wandsworth Music Academy is run by Wandsworth Music with an aim to inspire enjoyment and excellence in music, providing a rich diversity of high-quality music experiences and education to young people.

Trinity Laban's Fletcher Henderson Big Band (3.45pm - 4.15pm)

The Fletcher Henderson Project was started in 2020 to give Trinity Laban students the opportunity to study and enjoy earlier periods of Jazz – and to understand it’s vital role as dance music. Featuring a 13-piece line up, the band specialises in ‘Big Band’ Jazz of the 1930s (the ‘Swing’ era). The core of the band’s repertoire features the work of pianist, arranger and band leader Fletcher Henderson, one of the most influential musicians of this period. In addition, the band loves to perform the repertoire of other great bands of the Swing Era, including those of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.

Guildhall's Impossibilities (5pm - 5.30pm)

‘ImPossibilities’ was formed in 2013 in response to a performance by the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, at the acclaimed Barbican Transcender Festival. A project was conceived to create a collective of musicians and creative thinkers to make music, sound, poetry and visual work inspired by Sun Ra and which would reflect the broad range of artists and art forms that his legacy continues to inspire, decades after his departure from planet Earth.
Since its inception, students from the Guildhall School have collaborated with young aspiring musicians, poets and leading international jazz musicians to create new musical hybrids, under the artistic leadership of guitarist, educationalist, composer and Sun Ra archivist Paul Griffiths.


Youthsayers (6.15pm - 6.45pm)

Youthsayers is a creative music opportunity for young people aged between 11 to 18 year olds living in the Lambeth area. The project was created in 2016 in collaboration with Raw Material, School Ground Sounds and Lambeth Music and we are funded by Arts Council England. Run by professional musicians and teachers from established international performing and recording band, Soothsayers.