Jazz breaking news: Arun Ghosh, Soweto Kinch And Liane Carroll For Free Entry Imperial Wharf Jazz Fest Next Week

Confirmed for the two-dayer at Imperial Wharf, located adjacent to Chelsea Harbour and near the King’s Road and Sloane Square and set in its own riverside park, are some big names this year with the Soweto Kinch Quartet, and former Young Disciples singer Carleen Anderson (Thursday 15 September, 6-10pm); with Australian singer Nina Ferro, guitarist Sonny Black & Friends, Mano De Dios, the Arun Ghosh Quintet, Liane Carroll Trio, Robin Jones King Salsa and Bomba Baja Band (Saturday 17 Sept 1-10pm) all heading to the Wharf.

Clarinettist Arun Ghosh, who is on the cover of the current issue of Jazzwise on sale until 21 September, has developed his own synthesis of Indo-jazz that draws on the energy of dance music harnessing it to improvised current styles of jazz. His debut album Northern Namaste was critically acclaimed and the follow-up, Primal Odyssey, with a new band featuring Corey Mwamba and Shabaka Hutchings is released by Camoci next month. Soweto Kinch, who in August appeared at the Brit Jazz Festival held in Ronnie Scott’s as part of the Jazzverse Jukebox night hosted by BBC broadcaster and singer Jumoke Fashola, has made his name as both a Charlie Parker- and Joe Harriott-inspired saxophonist and a freestyling MC capable of responding spontaneously to suggestions from the audience, as he did at Brit Jazz. And Liane Carroll has been fêted as one of the leading female jazz singers currently working in the UK, and this year the Kent-based artist released Up And Down produced by trumpeter James McMillan to acclaim following a successful album launch at the Hideaway.

– Stephen Graham

For more details on how to get there go to www.imperialwharf.com/jazz