The Jazz Mann | Jazz music reviews and news from the Jazz Mann Ian Mann

Winner of the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Media, 2019

Jazz Album Reviews

Avishai Cohen (Trumpet)

Big Vicious

“Big Vicious”, a band name as well as an album, is an intriguing beast, occupying a very personal territory part way between jazz and rock and embracing a variety of other musical styles in between.

Matt Gold

Imagined Sky

Gary Husband & Markus Reuter

Music of our Times

The Dave Ingham Group

A Sea of Green

Wolfgang Muthspiel

Angular Blues

Bruno Heinen Trio

Out of Doors

Felix Jay

Trio

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Yuri Goloubev

Two Chevrons Apart

Another high quality album release from Goloubev. The material is consistently melodic, balancing an easy accessibility with the inventive harmonic concepts bubbling just below the polished surface.

Let Spin

Steal The Light

“Steal The Light” sees Let Spin building upon their previous successes and subtly altering their sound, but without losing their essential group identity.

Oded Tzur

Here Be Dragons

An album recorded by a perfectly balanced ensemble. Despite its sometimes esoteric concepts this is music that is eminently melodic and accessible.

What? Quartet

What?

Inspired by the wild but beautiful landscape of the Welsh Borders this is a notably ego-less approach to free improvising, and one that helps to make this quartet so distinctive.

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

“Lockdown For The Count” - Charity EP in aid of MIND.

Down for the Count, a London-based swing band, are releasing a new EP “Lockdown for the Count” on Friday 5th June 2020 with 50% of the profits from EP sales to be donated to the charity Mind.

“Call Me Irresponsible” by Stephen McCarthy Re-released for NHS Charities Together

Vocalist Stephen McCarthy’s 2006 jazz album, "Call Me Irresponsible", has been re-released with all of the profits going to NHS Charities Together. Press release attached.

View more Jazz news