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Winner of the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Media, 2019

Jazz Album Reviews

Beverley Beirne

Dream Dancer

Assured vocals and intelligent, imaginative arrangements. An album that will continue to enhance Beirne’s reputation nationally, she is emerging as far more than just a good ‘regional’ jazz singer.

Matt Ridley

The Antidote

Ed Jones / Emil Karlsen

From Where Light Falls

Joshua Cavanagh-Brierley

Joy In Bewilderment

Paul Hazel / Steve Waterman

Out Of This World With Sun Ra

Alex Western-King

Sideslip

Binker Golding / John Edwards / Steve Noble

Moon Day

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Roy Mor

After The Real Thing

An impressively diverse album that borrows from both the Israeli and American musical traditions and which represents a good snapshot of Mor’s musical influences and of his musical journey thus far.

Zoe Gilby

Aurora

Ian Mann looks at singer & lyricist Zoe Gilby's 'vocalese' adaptations of tunes by the American trumpeter Tom Harrell. He also examines her EP of voice & double bass duets, recorded with Andy Champion

Richard X Bennett

RXB3

It’s an album that is accessible and fun, but which also reveals hidden depths upon closer listening. Bennett’s immersion in Indian music and rhythms helps to bring something fresh to the music.

Fergus McCreadie Trio

Cairn

This may still be a young band but they have already established a phenomenal level of rapport that demands that they should already be regarded as one of Europe’s premier piano trios.

Live Jazz Reviews

Dom Pipkin Trio

Dom Pipkin Trio, “New Orleans Comes to Wall2Wall”, The Barn, White House Farm, Llanvetherine, Abergavenny, 04/08/2021.

BMJ Collective

BMJ Collective, “The Journey of Trad” The Barn, White House Farm, Llanvetherine, Abergavenny, 03/08/2021.

Ella Hohnen-Ford / Joe Webb Duo

Ella Hohnen-Ford / Joe Webb Duo, “The Great American Songbook” The Barn, White House Farm, Llanvetherine, Abergavenny, 02/08/2021

Deborah Rose

Deborah Rose, St. Laurence’s Church, Ludlow, Shropshire, 02/07/2021 (part of Ludlow Fringe Festival).

Dave Jones Quartet

Dave Jones Quartet, Kidderminster Jazz Club, Town Hall, Kidderminster, 01/07/2021.

Wendy Kirkland Sextet

Wendy Kirkland Sextet, The Olde House, Chesterfield, livestreamed by Brecon Jazz Club, 05/06/2021.

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.

Jazz Mann News

‘Resistance, Rebellion & Revolution - A Libyan Artist In Exile, Hasan ‘Alsatoor’ Dhaimish (1955-2016)’ , London Exhibition, August 18th -29th, 2021.

Thursday, August 05, 2021

A new exhibition @ Hoxton 253 will display artworks by the late artist & satirist Hasan Dhaimish, including portraits of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan & various Delta Blues musicians

Peter Slavid - ‘European Modern Jazz’ on the radio playlist, first broadcast 01/08/2021.