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Jazz Album Reviews

Tim Garland and Geoffrey Keezer

Mezzo

Ultimately the triumph is Garland's, the instigator of the project and its principal composer, and also a true virtuoso of that rarest of musical beasts, the mezzo-soprano saxophone.

Alyn Shipton’s New Orleans Friends

The Oxford Concert

Five-Way Split

Modus Operandi

Shai Maestro

The Guesthouse

Taupe

waxing / waning

Jazz Sabbath

Jazz Sabbath Live

Aleph Aguiar

Sugar on my Blackbeans

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Billy Marrows Band

Dancing On Bentwood Chairs

Marrows impresses as a guitarist and even more so as a writer. His compositions are intelligent and imaginative and embrace a wide variety of influences, musical and otherwise.

Julie Campiche

Unspoken

Her most personal, but also most political, recording to date “Unspoken” represents a powerful and thought provoking statement from Campiche.

Harry Christelis

Preserving Fictions

Another impressive statement from Christelis, the composer and principal architect of this intriguing, intelligent, immersive and often beautiful music.

Søren Bebe Trio

Gratitude

Perhaps the ultimate expression of the Bebe Trio’s sound. They have distilled the essence of their music and have ‘polished the diamond’ to sparkling perfection.

Live Jazz Reviews

Dom Franks’ StrayHorn Quintet

Dom Franks’ Strayhorn Quintet, Corn Exchange Jazz Club, The Corn Exchange, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, 09/04/2026.

Small Blue

Small Blue, Jazz at Progress, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 27/03/2026.

Brass Band Bychan

Brass Band Bychan,  Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre for the Arts, Abergavenny, 29/03/2026.

Peiriant / Awen Ensemble

Awen Ensemble / Peiriant, Sy; Gigs, St. Alkmund’s Church, Shrewsbury, 28/03/2026.

Yessaï Karapetian Quintet

Yessaï Karapetian Quintet, Princess Grace Theatre, Monaco, 22/03/2026

Romarna Campbell Trio

Romarna Campbell Trio, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 26/03/2026.

Jazz Mann Features

Music Spoken Here celebrates fourth birthday.

Instigated by Dave Fuller in 2022 Music Spoken Here presents contemporary jazz, fusion, funk and soul on a fortnightly basis at The Marr's Bar, Worcester.

Jazz a Juan 2026 - A Preview.

Colin May looks ahead to the 65th edition of the French jazz festival Jazz a Juan, which will take place in July 2026, and interviews two of its organisers, Reno di Matteo and Maryline Bailly.

Jazz Mann News

Jasper Høiby’s 3Elements - forthcoming live dates, April 2026.

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Bassist & composer Jasper Høiby's 3Elements trio will play a short series of album launch gigs during April 2026. Schedule attached.

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - ‘Two Gils and a Bill’ tour April / May 2026.

Saturday, April 11, 2026

The SNJO and guest pianist / arranger will celebrate the music of Gil Evans and Bill Evans with a short Scottish tour at the end of April and beginning of May. Press release attached.

Music Spoken Here, Worcester - Programme for April and May 2026.

Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Music Spoken Here has announced its programme for April and May 2026. Events take place fortnightly at The Marr's Bar, Worcester.

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Jazz Gigs & Events

Exhibition ; The Jazz Photography of William Ellis at The Capstone Theatre Foyer, Liverpool.

Tuesday, February 03, 2026 - Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Gregory Hutchinson’s Kind of Now at Jazzcultural, New York City, USA.

Thursday, April 09, 2026 - Sunday, April 12, 2026

Martin Speake’s Charukesi, lunchtime event at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London.

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Let Spin at Shrewsbury Jazz Network, The Hive Music & Media Centre, Shrewsbury.

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Chris Coull at Harborough Jazz Club,  lunchtime event at Harborough Jazz Club, The Three Swans Hotel, Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

Sunday, April 12, 2026

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