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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

Guido Spannocchi Quartet

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

Zoe Gilby Quartet

Zoe Gilby Quartet, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 28/04/2024.

Transatlantic Hot Club with Tara Minton

Transatlantic Hot Club with Tara Minton, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 21/04/2024.

Sam Leak’s Looking Glass

Sam Leak’s Looking Glass, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 18/04/2024.

Partikel with Natalie Rozario

Partikel with Natalie Rozario, Shrewsbury Jazz Network, The Hive Music & Media Centre, Shrewsbury, 13/04/2024.

Kareem Kandi World Orchestra

Kareem Kandi World Orchestra, Cave Romangan, Nice, France, 09/03/2024.

Jazz Mann Features

Friday at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, 03/05/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys two very different performances by pianist / composers at the Parabola Art Centre from the Sultan Stevenson Trio and Nikki Yeoh with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO).

Colin May interviews Fergus McCreadie.

Award winning Scottish pianist and composer Fergus McCreadie generously took time out from his busy schedule for a zoom call with guest contributor Colin May.

Jazz Mann News

Warren James - May 2024 Gig Update.

Friday, May 03, 2024

Guitarist & vocalist Warren James has forwarded his March gig schedule which will see him performing with a variety of different line ups including the Jake Leg Jug Band .

Line up announced for Jazz Stroud 2024.