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Jazz Album Reviews

Agile Experiments

Alive In The Empire

There’s a real spark about the playing and a true sense of adventure as the musicians blend acoustic and electronic elements in thrillingly genre bending fashion.

Linley Hamilton Quintet

For The Record

Henrik Jensen’s Followed By Thirteen

Affinity

Will Vinson

Four Forty One

Byron Wallen

Portrait : Reflections On Belonging

Alice Zawadzki

Within You Is A World Of Spring

Julian Costello Quartet

Connections; without borders

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Johnny Hunter

Pale Blue Dot

A genuinely impressive piece of work that combines its various elements subtly and effectively.

Wild Card

Beast from the East

Yes, Wild Card are a party band but there’s also an intelligence and sophistication about their music. Beast from the East, with its increasing focus on original material, is arguably their best yet.

MoonMot

Going Down The Well

This Anglo-Swiss sextet delivers a distinctive group sound with the band’s jazz and improv chops complemented by a punkish, DIY attitude that finds expression in the urgency of the performances.

Joel Harrison

Still Point : Turning World

Harrison successfully brings together musicians from different backgrounds to produce music that is simultaneously universal and highly personal. An ambitious and impressive piece of work.

Live Jazz Reviews

Kate Williams’ Four Plus Three meets Georgia Mancio

Kate Williams’ Four Plus Three meets Georgia Mancio, “Finding Home”, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 06/03/2020.

Victoria Klewin with the Jim Barber Trio

Victoria Klewin with the Jim Barber Trio, Brecon Jazz Club, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon, 10/03/2020.

The Gaz Hughes Sextet

The Gaz Hughes Sextet plays Art Blakey, The Market Theatre, Ledbury, Herefordshire, 07/03/2020.

Chris Batchelor’s Zoetic

Chris Batchelor’s Zoetic, Richard Burton Theatre, RWCMD, Cardiff, 27/02/2020.

Fergus McCreadie Trio

Fergus McCreadie Trio, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 23/02/2020.

Remi Harris & The Electric Beat Combo

Remi Harris & The Electric Beat Combo, Ludlow Brewery, Ludlow, Shropshire, 15/02/2020.

Jazz Mann Features

Art Themen : An Appreciation.

Guest contributor Trevor Bannister pays homage to the extraordinary saxophonist Art Themen, who combines a successful career as an orthopaedic surgeon with the life of a prominent jazz musician.

“In Praise of the Livestream”. Fergus McCreadie Trio, Livestream, Stephen Henderson’s Kitchen, Dalrymple, Scotland, 21/03/2020.

In these days of isolation Ian Mann, together with an online audience of music fans, enjoys a concert length Livestream broadcast performance by the Fergus McCreadie Trio.

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