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Saturday at The Mostly Jazz Festival 2011, Moseley Park, Birmingham, 02/07/ 2011.

A lovely festival that rapidly appears to be establishing itself as a vital part of Birmingham's cultural calendar.

Reel Recordings II

Tim Owen with a second look at the Reel Recordings catalogue. This time he looks at valuable recorded documents featuring the music of both Soft Machine and Kevin Ayers.

Sunday at Lichfield Real Ale, Jazz and Blues Festival 2011.

An excellent afternoon's music froma very different "quartet of trios".

Saturday at Lichfield Real Ale, Jazz and Blues Festival 2011.

Lichfield must represent the best value for money on the entire festival circuit. Every act that I saw this year delivered.

Another Timbre

Tim Owen looks at four releases from this Sheffield based label that declares itself to be an outlet for "improvised and cutting-edge contemporary music?.

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Notes from Hay

Ian Mann reports on some of the musical events at the 2011 Hay Festival.

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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