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Jazz Album Reviews

Alban Claret & Evan Clegg

The Collection

As composers they have come up with a set of highly accomplished & hugely enjoyable tunes written in the bebop tradition. The quality of the playing from a very well balanced quintet is exceptional.

Katriona Taylor

Blind Passion

Dean Stockdale Trio

Promise The Moon

Kjetil Mulelid

Piano

Nicole Heartseeker & Mulo Francel

Forever Young

Clare Foster

Kumbhaka

Shez Raja

Tales From The Punjab

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent

Quiet Is The Star

A review with a difference as Ian Mann looks at the new album from Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent as they launch the recording with a special Zoom event hosted by Watermill Jazz in Dorking.

elephant9

Arrival Of The New Elders

Music that is lush and mysterious, but still inherently groovy. An extraordinarily rich sound for a three piece group.

Solstice

Food for Thought

A series of multi-faceted compositions that combine genuine beauty with a very impressive level of musical sophistication, with each composer bringing something characterful to the table.

Howl Quartet

Life As We See It

The quartet has already created a sound that is very much its own, but one that is also capable of emphasising the individual writing styles of its members within the overall group aesthetic.

Live Jazz Reviews

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, “Where Rivers Meet”, Livestream Series from St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. Livestream One 12/05/2021.

Vasilis Xenopoulos / Nigel Price XPQ

Vasilis Xenopoulos / Nigel Price XPQ , Livestream from The Boileroom, Guildford, Surrey, 05/05/2021.

Julie Campiche Quartet

Julie Campiche Quartet, Livestream from Unterfahrt Jazz Club, Munich, Germany, 28/04/2021.

Matt MacKellar Band

Matt MacKellar Band, Livestream from The Jazz Café, The Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 27/04/2021.

AuB

AuB, Livestream from Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham, 24/04/2021.

Clark Tracey Quartet

Clark Tracey Quartet Celebrate the Compositions of Stan Tracey, Livestream from The Boileroom, Guildford, 14/04/2021.

Jazz Mann Features

Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Jazz Stream 2021, Day Two, Sunday May 2nd 2021.

With performances covering almost the entire range of jazz genres there literally was “something for everybody” and in the true tradition of the Festival there were exciting new discoveries to be made

Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Jazz Stream 2021, Day One, Saturday May 1st 2021.

A five hour extravaganza of specially commissioned performances recorded both in the UK and internationally that really captured the spirit of the Festival and its sheer musical diversity.

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The Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) Presents: Bronx River Sounds 2021 – Streams of Black Music at Bronx River Art Center, New York City, USA.

Saturday, May 22, 2021 - Saturday, June 19, 2021

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