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Jazz Album Reviews

Josephine Davies

Satori : Weatherwards

Intelligently written music that is readily accessible and often beautiful, but also subtly challenging. "Weatherwards" confirms the high level of creativity that Satori is capable of.

Henrik Jensen

Above Your House

Michael Chillingworth

Friday The Thirteenth

Perfect Stranger

Unfinished Business

Glasshouse

Silence is a Flower

Edison Herbert

All I Need

Scarla O’Horror

Semiconductor Taxidermy For The Masses

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Loz Speyer’s Inner Space

Live in Leipzig

Captures the Inner Space quintet at the top of their game, delivering music at the cusp of structure and improvisation and striking just the right balance between the two.

Norma Winstone and Kit Downes

Outpost of Dreams

The ten tunes are immaculately selected and embrace elements of jazz, folk and classical music, ingredients that bring out the best of this highly talented duo.

John Escreet

the epicenter of your dreams

A fiercely intelligent recording featuring inventive original writing, imaginative interpretations of outside material and some excellent playing.

Ben Carter Quintet

Pulsar

“Pulsar” is successful on its terms but it’s also a recording that exhibits considerable potential for the future, not just for Carter but for all the members of this talented young quintet.

Live Jazz Reviews

King Heron

King Heron, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 28/11/2024.

Christelis / Stylianides / Crowley / Glaser

Christelis / Stylianides / Crowley / Glaser, The Green Note, Camden Town, London, 15/11/2024 (Part of EFG London Jazz Festival).

Chube

Chube, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 14/11/2024.

Will Barnes Quartet

Will Barnes Quartet, Brecon Jazz Club, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon, 12/10/2024.

Chris Gumbley Quintet

Chris Gumbley Quintet, ‘Tribute to Cannonball’, Kidderminster Jazz Club, St. Ambrose’s Parish Centre, Kidderminster, Worcs., 01/11/2024.

Jakub Klimiuk Quintet

Jakub Klimiuk Quintet, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 31/10/2024.

Jazz Mann Features

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 - First Sunday, 17/11/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys performances by the World Heart Beat and Julian Joseph Jazz Academies, Norman and Corrie and Mark Kavuma with Banger Factory.

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 - First Saturday, 16/11/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys performances by the Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra and Ensemble with Winston Rollins & Orphy Robinson, plus Emma Rawicz's new, all star, Visitor From Everywhere quintet.

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