Jon Lloyd

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The next Jon Lloyd Quartet album will be released on 11th September. Prior to that there will be two single track releases on streaming platforms, in July and August. We are joining forces with music distribution agents ECN, who…

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2026 got off to a great start with an appearance at Bath Jazz Weekend. We opened the festival with a set of largely new tunes, which was enthusiastically received by a packed Bath audience!

Next week we are recording…

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Two more concerts this year for the Quartet… Poole Lighthouse on 17th October and The Pheasantry (PizzaExpress) in Chelsea on 21st.

Both these gigs feature Ashley John-Long (aka super-sub) on bass as Nick is out of the country. Please…

Towards the end of August, an update on activity! Naissance and Jon Lloyd Quartet are moving onwards… Naissance have some lovely concerts, and especially in the UK at Bristol Music Club in the Ppianissimo series. We start in September and…

Hi. I realise I have not posted for a while, which is an oversight! There have been some great concerts in the last couple of months. John and I played a short tour of The Netherlands with Naissance and the…

A lovely album review from All About Jazz, written by Neil Duggan. Really nice to get a good review here, in this well-respected online website.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/earth-songs-jon-lloyd-quartet-ubuntu-music

Naissance have released my tune “Cidron” on all major streaming platforms. The release is the first single from the album, which will be streamed soon. Links are below.  John and I are enormously proud of this recording, as it represents…

This seems like a good time to thank listeners to the quartet. Since the release in February of “Earth Songs”, we have hit over 900,000 streams worldwide, which for a jazz album by an up-and-coming group seems like a very…

London Jazz News has published a great interview with me and John Law, which we did with music journalist Jon Turney. It also promotes our next concert, at London's Pizza Express Live.

https://londonjazznews.com/2024/08/29/jon-lloyd-quartet-pizza-express-soho-15-sept/

Please come if you can!

Our next quartet concert is at the prestigious Pizza Express Live in Soho, London. We take the stage on Sunday September 15th at 1pm, and I really hope we have a strong audience for what promises to be a lovely…

The quartet is playing at Black Mountain Jazz in Abergavenny, Wales this coming Sunday. Really looking forward to this. Looking forward to two important concerts in September. On Sunday 15th in the afternoon we play Pizza Express in London's Soho…

Recent figures from Ubuntu Music have surprised me! Tracks from Earth Songs have been receiving around 100,000 streams a month since its release, and is coming up to the 500,000 mark soon! I am in awe of this figure and…

The Naissance album is now out on CD, on 33JAZZ. John Law and I are very pleased with this beautiful release. We knew on the day we recorded last year that we had something special. To get a copy please…

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In a week's time the new duo release of Naissance will be available, on CD only, released on 33Jazz.

John Law and I are very excited about this recording. Made last April (around the same time as “Earth Songs”)…

This short tour of 6 dates has now finished. It has been a really rewarding time for us. We have found an amazing audience response to our “Earth Songs” music; reflected in applause given, comments made and CDs sold. Really…

The final part of this short tour is imminent. Wednesday 27th March has the quartet playing at Fleece Jazz, Stoke-by-Nayland (near Colchester, UK). On 3rd April we will play in Bristol at Fringe Jazz. Looking forward to both concerts very…

The Quartet tour is now well underway. 

We played London's 606 club to a good sized audience on Tuesday. It was great and well received. On Thursday we were at Soundcellar in Poole, playing to a sell-out audience! On Friday…

We are very pleased to announce the availability on streaming platforms of two tunes from the forthcoming Earth Songs album. These are Al'Afiyah and Cinq Feuilles.

Please click these links to hear them!

https://orcd.co/3ppzny8

https://orcd.co/r85d44g

Album out on February…

Great news today is the official announcement of my signing to Ubuntu Music for the Jon Lloyd Quartet album release of “Earth Songs”!

The album release is February 16th 2024, but prior to that a couple of album tracks will…

The fabulous UK jazz label Ubuntu are to release the Jon Lloyd Quartet album Earth Songs in February 2024! We are delighted to appear on this great label, and very excited about the future of the group with this forward-thinking…

The new release by the Jon Lloyd Quartet will be called “Earth Songs”. The label is under wraps for now, but release will be in February 2024.

We are very excited about this. The music represents my compositions beautifully, and…

The new European contemporary jazz group The Jon Lloyd Quartet hits the south of the UK!

We are playing the Swanage jazz festival on Saturday 8th July and the Frome festival on Sunday 16th July. Please check both venues to…

Last weekend the Quartet recorded 12 pieces for a CD release. The session was fabulous, and I now have the privileged, enjoyable yet tricky job of listening to all the takes and distilling the music down to an album's length…

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