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Features

Psi Fi

Tim Owen looks at three highly distinctive releases on Evan Parker's Psi label

Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes and John Surman: Brewster?s Rooster

Tim Owen looks at two releases on the ECM label

Gigs Of The Year

Ian Mann's top ten of gigs of 2009

On the piano trail, London Jazz Festival 2009

Tim Owen looks at two concerts featured on the "piano trail" at the 2009 London Jazz Festival

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Tim Owen investigates two recent releases from anarchic European ensembles

Here we have two comparably slick offerings from anarchic European ensembles, both chasing the aesthetic pioneered by Downtown New York?s in-house maven of the quick-splice, John Zorn

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Why Not

Ian Mann looks at four long lost classics of seventies jazz recently re-released on the Why Not label

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Jazz Mann News

Big Bear Music wins Arts & Culture Award at 2026 Birmingham Awards.

Monday, November 09, 2026

The music company run by Black Sabbath’s original manager Jim Simpson has won the Arts & Culture Award at the Birmingham Awards 2026. Press release attached.

The Spitz: much-loved East London music venue to be commemorated with blue plaque marking 30 years of music and community.

Monday, November 09, 2026

Spitz musicians to perform live at Old Spitalfields Market on Tuesday November 17th 2026 as the venue’s legacy is celebrated during the London Jazz Festival

Jazz in the West Midlands,  November 9th - 15th 2026.

Monday, November 09, 2026

A roundup of jazz, funk and soul gigs to check out this week in the West Midlands area. Listings provided by Dave Fuller of Music Spoken Here, Worcester.

Jazz Gigs & Events

‘TonRaum’ - An Exhibition & Collaborative Project between Composer/Sound Designer Barry Edwards & Ceramicist Claudia Lis at Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Denbighshire.

Saturday, September 26, 2026 - Sunday, January 10, 2027

NUEJAZZ Festival,various venues, Nuremberg, Germany.

Friday, October 23, 2026 - Wednesday, November 11, 2026

TD James Moody Jazz Festival 2026 at New Jersey Performing Arts Centre (NJPAC), Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Friday, November 06, 2026 - Sunday, November 22, 2026

ONe_Orchestra New at The Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston, London.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Or Bareket New York Quartet at Swansea Jazz Club, Arts Wing, Grand Theatre, Swansea.

Wednesday, November 11, 2026