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Brecon Jazz Festival 2024, Main Weekend, Saturday 10th August 2024.

Concert performances featuring the Tatiana Eva-Marie Quartet, Jen Wilson's Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite Sextet & the Geoff Eales Trio, plus other more informal appearances from Wonderbrass a.o.

Brecon Jazz Festival 2024, Main Weekend, Friday 9th August 2024.

Ian Mann enjoys the first full day of the Festival and performances from Zach Breskal, Steven Kirby, Kat Rees, N'famady Kouyate, Ursula Harrison, Dionne Bennett and The Mingus Project.

Brecon Jazz Festival, Family & Jazz Day, Gardens and Marquee, Castle Hotel, Brecon, 04/08/2024.

An enjoyable and entertaining day of music making featuring three very different bands, all operating underneath the broad stylistic umbrella that we call jazz.

63RD JAZZ À JUAN,  Juan-les-Pins, France, 8th -18th July 2024.

Guest contributor Colin May enjoys performances by Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Belmondo Dead Jazz, Erik Truffaz, Saki Ozawa, Li Xiaochuan, Poetic Ways and more.

‘Jazz Friends’ at Brecon Jazz Club, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon, 09/07/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys an informal evening of jazz featuring a host of 'Jazz Friends', with the emphasis very much on friendship, community and the joy of playing jazz.

BOOK REVIEW:  “The Summer We Crossed Europe In The Rain”  Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishigoro, illustrated by Bianca Bagnarelli.

Charming collection of song lyrics written by the distinguished author Kazuo Ishiguro for the jazz singer Stacey Kent. The book also features the distinctive artwork of illustrator Bianca Bagnarelli.

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Jazz Mann News

SMOKE Jazz Club, New York City Announces June 2025 Line-Up.

Wednesday, May 07, 2025

SMOKE Jazz Club announces June line-up: A piano-packed month featuring Emmet Cohen, Danilo Perez, and Eric Scott Reed, plus trumpeter Nicholas Payton.

Marc Ribot - New album and European and North American live dates.

Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Marc Ribot will release Map of a Blue City on May 23, 2025 via New West Records. He will be touring extensively in the UK, Europe and North America during May, June and July. Press release attached.

Peter Slavid - ‘European Modern Jazz’ on the radio playlist,  first broadcast 04/05/2025.

Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Broadcaster & journalist Peter Slavid has forwarded details of the music played on his UK & European Jazz radio show on 04/05/2025, which is available via a number of UK & international radio stations

Jazz Gigs & Events

Isaiah Collier at The Blue Note, New York City, USA.

Thursday, May 08, 2025

The Burt Bacharach Jazz Experience: Featuring Alex Steele & Catherine Sykes Quartet at Corn Exchange Jazz Club, The Corn Exchange, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

Thursday, May 08, 2025

Empirical at Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester.

Thursday, May 08, 2025

Mark Latimer and Friends at The Regal, Tenbury Wells, Worcs.

Friday, May 09, 2025

The Boom Yeh at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London.

Friday, May 09, 2025