Late Night Jazz: Olivia Murphy, Andrew Woodhead and Lewis Daniel

at Royal Albert Hall, London
£20.00

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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 compo

Olivia Murphy Jazz Orchestra

Olivia Murphy is a multi-award winning composer, conductor and improviser based in South-East London, originally from Peterborough. After studying jazz saxophone at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Olivia has found composition her main focus and an important emotional outlet. She thinks of herself as a story-teller, enjoying weaving melodic lines with varied textures and ensemble improvisations to bring her ideas and memories to life, and over the last few years has been busy crafting musical stories for various jazz and new music ensembles.

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Andy Woodhead

Young pianist.

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Daniel Lewis Group

Spontaneous jazz improv.

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on Mon 17 November 2025