Guildhall Jazz Festival: Linda May Han Oh with Guildhall Improvisers Ensemble
- from 7pm
About this event:
- Category:
- Guildhall Jazz Festival | Jazz
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
Guildhall Jazz Festival x EFG London Jazz Festival: Linda May Han Oh with Guildhall Improvisers Ensemble
Join GRAMMY-winning bassist and composer Linda May Han Oh for an electric performance with Guildhall’s Improvisers Ensemble. Showcasing her acclaimed compositions and boundless creativity, this set promises rich textures, bold improvisation, and captivating musical narratives.
Part of the School’s annual Jazz Festival, presented in partnership with EFG London Jazz Festival, celebrating the creativity and originality of the Guildhall Jazz community.
Full line up
Fri 21 Nov 2025, from 7pm
All events are free, no tickets required - just turn up to Milton Court Concert Hall!
7pm
The Joe Garland band
8pm
Linda May Han Oh with Guildhall Improvisers Ensemble
Event ends approx. 9.30pm
About the artists
Joe Garland guitar
Simon Spies drums
Murray Dare bass
Cody Moss keyboard
Scottie Thompson keyboard
Ed Hogben trumpet
Josh Short trumpet
Tom Jarvis saxophone
Matt Cooper trombone
Headed by guitarist Joe Garland, this talented group of young musicians from London perform boisterous, groovy jazz funk and fusion in the vein of the Yellowjackets, John Scofield and Tribal Tech. Now a 9-piece mega band with a weapons-grade 4-piece horn section, the group are ready to let off some serious steam having all finished their degrees in summer 2024. Armed with at least an album’s worth of new original music (wink, wink), Joe and his colleagues are ready to do some serious shredding and will probably melt your face clean off!!
Headed by guitarist Joe Garland, this talented group of young musicians from London perform boisterous, groovy jazz funk and fusion in the vein of the Yellowjackets, John Scofield and Tribal Tech. Now a 9-piece mega band with a weapons-grade 4-piece horn section, the group are ready to let off some serious steam having all finished their degrees in summer 2024. Armed with at least an album’s worth of new original music (wink, wink), Joe and his colleagues are ready to do some serious shredding and will probably melt your face clean off!!
Linda May Han Oh composer, bass
Guildhall Improvisers Ensemble
Based in New York City, GRAMMY award-winning Linda May Han Oh is a bassist/composer who has performed and recorded with artists such as Pat Metheny, Kenny Barron, Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Terri Lyne Carrington, Steve Wilson, Geri Allen and Vijay Iyer.
Guildhall Jazz Festival, in association with EFG London Jazz Festival, welcomes Linda May Han Oh for a performance alongside Guildhall Improvisers Ensemble featuring a wide range of May Han Oh’s compositions for a malleable small jazz outfit.
Born in Malaysia and raised in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia, she has received many awards including a 2022 Deutscher Jazz Preis and was voted the 2018-2021, 2023-2025 Bassist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist’s Association, as well 2022 Bassist of the Year in Jazztimes. Linda also was voted 2019 Bassist of the Year in Hothouse Magazine and was the 2020 recipient APRA award for Best New Jazz Work. In 2023 she received the prestigious Herb Albert Award for music and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music in 2024.
Linda has had five releases as a leader which have received critical acclaim, her latest – a quintet album entitled The Glass Hours on Biophilia Records. Her latest commissions include “Littoral Tales” a solo piano piece in two movements for Gloria Cheng, and “Ephemeral Echoes” written for percussion trio and piano trio as well as “Mirrors and Shadows” written for piano and bass duo.
Linda is currently Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music. Linda was featured on bass in the 2020 Pixar movie "Soul" under the musical direction of Jon Batiste (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) alongside drummer Roy Haynes and was the model for the character in the film - bassist “Miho.”
“Her innovative range and stellar improvisations have made [her] one of the most dynamic rising stars in jazz today.” The Wall Street Journal
"A major bass voice arrives" – JazzTimes
Artist photos
Joe Garland
Linda May Han Oh
This event is part of the 2025 Guildhall Jazz Festival in partnership with EFG London Jazz Festival - five days of electrifying jazz at Milton Court.
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Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
