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Jazz Album Reviews

Fugue & Groove Trio

Introducing Fugue & Groove

The trio’s treatment of these well known classical themes is consistently interesting and inventive, and as a result the music sounds fresh and exciting.

Deborah Rose

Atlas

Uneven Eleven

Live in Brighton

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

20 / 20

Sondre Moshagen Lightning Trio

Lightning

Chris Hodgkins & Lenore Raphael

Pennies From Heaven

Chicuelo & Marco Mezquida

Del alma

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Tom Ollendorff

Where In The World

With its focus unashamedly on melody “Where In The World” is an often beautiful album capable of appealing to a wide range of jazz listeners.

Steve Lodder

2 Sorts Of 3

It’s a tribute to Lodder that “2 Sorts Of 3” with its mix of electric and acoustic sounds coheres so effectively as an album. This is largely due to the intelligence and quality of his writing.

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

Confirms Redmond’s status as one of Ireland’s premier bass players while also enhancing his reputation as a composer and bandleader.

Live Jazz Reviews

Cleveland Watkiss

Cleveland Watkiss Quartet, Frank & Mark’s, Iffley Church Hall, Iffley, Oxford, 10/01/2026.

Davide Giovannini’s Minas Project

Davide Giovannini’s Minas Project, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar. Worcester, 08/01/2026.

Alex Hitchcock Quartet

Alex Hitchcock Quartet, Jazz at Progress, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 02/01/2026.

Eddie Parker’s Airborn

Eddie Parker’s Airborn, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 11/12/2025.

Janette Mason

Janette Mason ReWired Trio, Jazz at Progress, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 05/12/2025.

M. Haiux / Merope

M. Haiux / Merope, Sy ; Gigs, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, 06/12/2025.

Jazz Mann Features

6th Annual Bath Jazz Weekend, Widcombe Social Club, Bath, Sunday 11th January 2026.

Ian Mann enjoys the final dy of the Weekend and performances by the Rebecca Nash / Alex Merritt Duo, Elliot Galvin's 'The Ruin'' and the Emily Tran Quintet.

6th Annual Bath Jazz Weekend, Widcombe Social Club, Bath, Saturday 10th January 2026.

Ian Mann enjoys performances by the Olie Brice Quartet, Alison Rayner Quintet, Robert Mitchell solo, the Louis Sclavis/ Bruno Ducret Duo and Nick Malcolm's Out Front quintet.

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