Spice Jazz Soho Presents: The Lydian Collective

After 25 years of solid jazz promoting, as founded by Paul Pace, at the Spice of Life Soho, nurturing upcoming talents as well as established masters of the music, the SpiceJazz Team (Tara Minton and Clement Regert) are excited to relocate their acclaimed operation to the well-appointed and stylish music room of Crazy Coqs.

With over 6 million Spotify streams and more than 2 million YouTube views, London-based instrumental jazz/fusion four-piece Lydian Collective has established itself as a musical tour de force in the UK and beyond.

Their debut album ‘Adventure’ March 2018, within days, reached the top 10 in the iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and Bandcamp Jazz charts and had extensive official playlisting on several Spotify editorial favourites, including State of Jazz, Fusion Fest, and Jazz UK. BBC Radio 3’s Nick Luscombe called the album ‘Life-affirming music’.

The band’s second album, ‘Return,’ was released in October 2022. Within two weeks, it had amassed over 500,000 streams on Spotify alone, and their launch show at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club sold out.

The Lydian Collective sound is a unique combination of accessible melodies, accomplished musicianship, hypnotic rhythms, and an uplifting vibe, which has already drawn audiences from around the world.
The millions who follow the band’s online channels include fans from as far afield as the USA, China, and Japan—with a healthy following on home ground as well, thanks to early support from the likes of Tom Robinson at BBC6Music.

Lydian Collective are:
Aaron Wheeler (keys)
Sophie Alloway (drums)
Ida Hollis (bass)
Todd Baker (guitar)

‘Lydian Collective make genre-crashing, boundary-smashing music seem effortless’ – CLASH MAGAZINE

‘Life-affirming music’– Nick Luscombe BBC Radio 3