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Jazz Album Reviews

The Acid Drops

When

Their use of electronics to create colour and texture adds genuine interest to their rousing, funky grooves and their direct, riff based approach.

Various Artists

Live from Band on the Wall

Fini Bearman

La Loba

Glasshopper

Fortune Rules

Patrick Cornelius

Acadia : Way of the Cairns

Berardi / Foran / Karlen featuring Pascal Schumacher

Haven

Joshua Jaswon Octet

Silent Sea

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Mulo Francel

Crossing Life Lines

This album represents a substantial piece of work as Francel and his colleagues embrace a variety of musical styles, bringing a tangible jazz sensibility to the music of Central and Eastern Europe.

Rob Barron

From This Moment On

A swinging, unpretentious, unapologetically mainstream recording, but the quality of the playing, the arrangements and the production all combine to ensure that it stands out from the pack.

Blueblut

Andenborstengurteltier

The trio’s open mindedness, allied to their distinctive, possibly unique, instrumental line up, gives Blueblut a sound that is very much their own, and one that they are still continuing to develop.

WorldService Project

Hiding in Plain Sight

There’s a visceral power about the performances on “Hidden in Plain Sight” that is hugely exciting, and an intensity and commitment that is highly convincing.

Live Jazz Reviews

Moostak Trio

Moostak Trio, Livestream from The Green Note, Camden, 22/11/2020 (Part of EFG London Jazz Festival).

Hedvig Mollestad and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

Hedvig Mollestad and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra ; “Maternity Beat”, Livestream from Molde Jazz Festival for EFG London Jazz Festival.

Archipelago

Archipelago - Livestream from The Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle for EFG London Jazz Festival, premièred 14/11/2020.

Henry Lowther’s Still Waters

Henry Lowther’s Still Waters, Livestream from Karamel, 16/11/2020 (Part of EFG London Jazz Festival).

Total Vibration

Total Vibration, Livestream from The Green Note, Camden, 15/11/2020 (Part of EFG London Jazz Festival).

Nathaniel Facey Quartet

Nathaniel Facey Quartet, Livestream from The Green Note, Camden, 13/11/2020 (Part of EFG London Jazz Festival).

Jazz Mann Features

New Switzerland - Julie Campiche, Ikarus, Trio Heinz Herbert - EFG London Jazz Festival Livestream, 14/11/2020.

Three distinctive, almost unclassifiable, acts featuring some of Europe’s most adventurous young musicians, demonstrating just how creative, vibrant & distinctive the contemporary Swiss jazz scene is.

“Jass to Jazz”, A three video discussion on the History of Jazz, Wall2Wall Virtual Jazz Festival 2020, Abergavenny.

Vocalist Debs Hancock discusses the History of Jazz with jazz journalists John Hellings and Nigel Jarrett.

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