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Jazz Album Reviews

John Crawford

Room for Dancing

Intelligent original compositions in a predominately Latin style combine with well chosen covers, with the pop and rock material often given a distinctive Latin twist.

Jonny Mansfield

Quartet! Live at Pizza Express

Julian Costello Quartet

And All The Birds Were Set Free

Hannah Horton

Live in Soho

Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis Quartet

Feels Like Home

Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley

Journey to Where

Mark Holub Anthropods

Abundant Shores

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Kjetil Mulelid

Agoja

The album draws several strands of Mulelid’s musical personality together and despite the diversity of the individual tracks the album still coheres superbly as a whole

Ross Hicks

Three Elms

Hicks’ writing exhibits an impressive ambition and maturity and he also impresses as a fluent and imaginative piano soloist. It all makes for a very classy package.

Billy Marrows + Grande Famila

Penelope

The music is rich, colourful and varied and the leader is well served by an excellent cast of instrumentalists, who all make substantial contributions to the success of the project.

Clark Tracey Quintet

Introducing Emily Masser

This may be a showcase for the emerging vocal talent that is Emily Masser but it’s also a great band recording with all the members of the quintet contributing hugely to the success of the album.

Live Jazz Reviews

Ben Carter Quintet

Ben Carter Quintet, Corn Exchange Jazz Club, The Corn Exchange, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, 16/05/2024.

Five-Way Split

Five Way Split, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 10/05/2024.

Huw Warren

Huw Warren Quartet, ‘Choro Choro Choro’, Brecon Jazz Club, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon, 14/05/2024.

BMJ Collective with Alex Goodyear

BMJ Collective with Alex Goodyear, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 12/05/2024.

Tom Ollendorff Trio with Tim Garland

Tom Ollendorff Trio with Tim Garland, Shrewsbury Jazz Network, The Hive Music & Media Centre, Shrewsbury, 11/05/2024.

Guido Spannocchi Quartet

Guido Spannocchi Quartet, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 02/05/2024.

Jazz Mann Features

Monday at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, 06/05/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys the final day of the2024 Cheltenham Jazz Festival and performances by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Clare Teal Seven, UB40, corto.alto and Gregory Porter.

Sunday at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, 05/05/2024.

Ian Mamm enjoys performances by Dreamscapes, Sam Eastmond and John Zorn's Bagatelles, The Royal Scammers, un.procedure plus, Theo Croker and Huey Morgan

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