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Jazz Album Reviews

Tim Richards Trio

Four Aces

Tim Richards is one of the great unsung heroes of British jazz and this is an unpretentious and highly enjoyable album that deserves to be widely heard.

Dave Redmond

All in Motion

Will Barnes Quartet

Outside The Light

Anmol Mohara

Across The Sea

Alex Clarke Quartet

Out of the Woods

Howl Quartet

Night Song

Nils Kavanagh

No Expectations

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Harben Kay

The World I Live In

Once again Kay has delivered an album that combines thoughtful and intelligent writing with excellent playing and which again combines conventional jazz virtues with more contemporary ideas.

Ant Law Quintet

Unified Theories

Intelligent writing and supremely accomplished playing combine to create something very special.

Johnny Richards & Dave King

The New Awkward

A truly remarkable album, adventurous and restlessly inventive, but also genuinely accessible. The range of sounds that the duo, and especially Richards, produce is little short of astonishing.

Finn Genockey

Tacet Trust

"Tacet Trust” is the most outstanding debut album that I’ve heard in some time and deserves to establish Genockey as a major figure on the UK jazz scene and beyond.

Live Jazz Reviews

Ayra

Ayra, Pizza Express Live, Holborn, London, 20/11/2025 (Part of EFG London Jazz Festival).

Rosie Frater-Taylor

Rosie Frater-Taylor, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 13/11/2025.

Freddie Gavita

The Freddie Gavita Quartet in: “Homage to Freddie Hubbard”, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 07/11/2025.

Nigel Price Organ Trio

Nigel Price Organ Trio, Kidderminster Jazz Club, St. Ambrose Parish Centre, Kidderminster, Worcs. 07/11/2025.

Chris Cobbson Quartet

Chris Cobbson Quartet, ‘From Dixie to Smooth: The History of Jazz Guitar’, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 26/10/2025.

Resolution 88

Resolution 88, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 23/10/2025.

Jazz Mann Features

Jammin’ Juan Palais des Congress, Juan-Les-Pins 29th-31st October 2025.

Colin May reports on a selection of the eighteen thirty five minute showcases forming part of the eighth edition of the Jammin' Juan jazz market.

Fifth Stourbridge Festival of Improvised Music, Claptrap The Venue, Stourbridge, West Midlands, 02/11/2025.

Highly enjoyable. The format of the Festival with its focus on multiple small ensembles ensures that there is plenty of variety with no single line-up or improvisation allowed to outstay its welcome.

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