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Features

Saturday at ‘Virtual’ Brecon Jazz Festival, 08/08/2020.

Ian Mann on a day of performances featuring a beguiling mix of local heroes and international collaborations.

Friday at ‘Virtual’ Brecon Jazz Festival, 07/08/2020.

Ian Mann enjoys the hugely successful first day of this lovingly coordinated online international jazz festival.

Jonny Mansfield - ” “Portrait” an “Album in a Day”.

Multi-instrumentalist Jonny Mansfield has completed the challenge of recording a full album in a single day. The result, "Portrait", is now available via Bandcamp.

Celebrating Musical Traditions in Ards and North Down in the time of Covid-19.

Composers Sid Peacock and Ruth Angell have been commissioned to write a work celebrating the different musical and cultural traditions of this area of Northern Ireland. Press release attached.

Patchwork Jazz Orchestra - “The Light that Shines” - Music and Videos recorded in Isolation.

Patchwork Jazz Orchestra has released a five track EP, with accompanying videos, recorded by its members in isolation at the height of lockdown. Read the story behind this remarkable achievement here

Alex Ward - “Where We Were”, “Frames” and “Noonward”.

Three very different albums by the extraordinarily productive clarinettist & guitarist Alex Ward, featuring his quartet Item 4, Ward as a solo guitarist, and his duo with drummer/ vocalist Sean Noonan

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Jazz Mann News

ONE JAZZ - new 24/7 global jazz radio platform to launch on 25th May 2024.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Internationally renowned jazz presenters Chris Philips and Jez Nelson to launch new 24/7 global jazz radio platform ONE JAZZ . Press release attached.

606 Jazz Club, Chelsea, London -  Live Music Programme 16th May - 31st May 2024.

Monday, May 13, 2024

Laura Thorne of the 606 Club has forwarded details of forthcoming live jazz events for the second half of May 2024, plus a look forward at events in June and August.

Peter Slavid - ‘European Modern Jazz’ on the radio playlist,  first broadcast 12/05/2024.

Monday, May 13, 2024

Broadcaster & journalist Peter Slavid has forwarded details of the music played on his UK & European Jazz radio show on 12/05/2024, which is available via a number of UK & international radio stations

Jazz Gigs & Events

‘Beyond the Bassline’, 500 years of Black music in Britain exhibition at The British Library, London.

Friday, April 26, 2024 - Monday, August 26, 2024

Huw Warren Quartet at Brecon Jazz Club, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Branco Stoysin,  Recital for Earth at Bell House, Dulwich, London

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Daniel John Martin with the Dave Cottle Trio at Swansea Jazz Club, Cu Mumbles, Mumbles, Swansea.

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Ben Carter Quintet at Corn Exchange Jazz Club, The Corn Exchange, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

Thursday, May 16, 2024