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Jazz Album Reviews

Monocled Man

Ex Voto

Building on the success of their earlier work this album represents their most convincing synthesis of acoustic and electronic sounds to date, building on the legacies of both Miles Davis & Kraftwerk.

Kevin Figes

Wallpaper Music

Alex Hitchcock

Dream Band

Pat Metheny

Side Eye NYC V1.1V

The Kevin Brady Electric Quartet

Plan B

Andrew Woolf

Song Unsung

Sean Gibbs

When Can I See You Again?

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Greg Cordez

Magnolia

A very worthy successor to Cordez’s previous two albums and one that bears his signature style and approach. His themes act as excellent vehicles for the inspired soloists that he gathers around him.

Xhosa Cole Quartet

K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us

A real sense of musical adventure imbues these buccaneering performances, the quartet’s obvious love of their source material balanced by the collective desire to make this music their own.

Tom Challenger / Alexander Hawkins / Mark Sanders

Imasche

Free improv isn’t for everyone, but this release is one of the better examples of the genre and as such is recommended to all fans of this style of music.

Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat

Worry Not

Johnson’s writing is imaginative and multi-faceted, combining memorable themes with sophisticated rhythms and dynamics in a series of inventive compositions that embrace numerous twists and turns.

Live Jazz Reviews

Clark Tracey Sextet

Clark Tracey Sextet, Jazz at Progress, The Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 26/11/2021.

Ella Hohnen-Ford / Joe Webb Duo

Ella Hohnen- Ford and Joe Webb Duo, “A Tribute to the Great American Songbook” Livestream for Wall2Wall Virtual Jazz Festival, Abergavenny.

Christian Sands Trio

Christian Sands Trio, Livestream from Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Soho, London 13/11/2021 (part of EFG London Jazz Festival).

Kathrine Windfeld Sextet

Kathrine Windfeld Sextet, Livestream from Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Soho, London, 15/11/2021 (Part of EFG London Jazz Festival).

Ian Shaw

Ian Shaw, Kidderminster Jazz Club, Corn Exchange Room, Kidderminster Town Hall, Kidderminster, Worcs., 11//11/2021.

Bianco Brackenbury / John Pope Quintet

Bianco Brackenbury / John Pope Quintet, Fizzle, Centrala, Minerva Works, Birmingham, 07/11/2021.

Jazz Mann Features

Third Stourbridge Festival of Improvised Music, Claptrap The Venue, Stourbridge, West Midlands,14/11/2021.

Ian Mann enjoys an afternoon of musical spontaneous creation featuring a collective of the Midlands' finest improvisers.

“Wherever You Are”, Brecon Jazz Festival 2021, The Castle Hotel, Brecon, Sunday 22nd August 2021.

Ian Mann enjoys the music of two projects assembled specifically for the Festival, Paula Gardiner's 6.0 and Swing Strings Trio.

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