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Saturday at Wall2Wall Jazz Festival, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 30/09/2023.

Ian Mann enjoys a "Jazz Chat" with broadcaster John Hellings and an exceptional musical performance from trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd and her Sextet.

R.I.P. John Marshall (1941 – 2023).

Ian Mann and Trevor Bannister pay tribute to the late, great John Marshall (1941-2023), drummer with three seminal bands, Ian Carr’s Nucleus, Soft Machine and Eberhard Weber’s Colours.

Ezra Collective win 2023 Mercury Music Prize.

Ian Mann with a personal reflection on Ezra Collective's historic victory at the 2023 Mercury Music Prize ceremony, making them the first ever jazz act to win an award first instigated in 1992.

Brecon Jazz Festival 2023, ‘Jazz & Film Weekend’ - The Films - Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th August 2023.

Ian Mann enjoys "Jazz on a Summer's Day", the film about he 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and "Indigo - Revelations in Small Steps", a film about trumpeter Byron Wallen's Indigo quartet by Tom Parsons.

Nice Jazz Festival 2023 - Part Two, 20th and 21st July 2023.

Guest contributor Colin May reports on the final two days of the 2023 Nice Jazz Festival. Performers include SuperBlue, Herbie Hancock, Ezra Collective, GoGo Penguin, Dianne Reeves, Donald Harrison.

Nice Jazz Festival 2023 - Part One, 18th and 19th July 2023.

Guest contributor Colin May reports on the first two days of the 2023 Nice Jazz Festival. Performers include Hiromi, Dave Holland, Gabriels, Immanuel Wilkins, Roberto Fonseca, Emile Londonien.

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Jazz Mann News

Jazz in the West Midlands - July 7th - 13th 2025.

Monday, July 07, 2025

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

Ludovico Einaudi Announces Solo Piano Tour for April and May 2026.

Friday, July 04, 2025

Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi is unveiling Solo Piano, a special series of intimate solo evenings in his favourite concert halls.

Islay Jazz Festival announces 2025 dates and new partnership with leading distillery, Caol Ila.

Thursday, July 03, 2025

Jazz Scotland has announced that Caol Ila, which translates in Gaelic to ‘The Sound of Islay’, will be headline sponsor of the 2025 Islay Jazz Festival, one of Scotland’s biggest celebrations of jazz

Jazz Gigs & Events

Jazz Connections: Everyday Lives - Exhibition featuring the work of jazz scholar Dr Pedro Cravinho & photographer Brian Homer at Library of Birmingham Foyer, Centenary Square, Birmingham.

Friday, June 06, 2025 - Thursday, August 28, 2025

Serious Summer Jazz Series at The Barbican Centre and Cadogan Hall, London.

Monday, June 16, 2025 - Saturday, July 26, 2025

Cheltenham Music Festival 2025, various venues, Cheltenham, Glos.

Friday, July 04, 2025 - Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Jazz A Juan, various venues,  Juan-les-Pins, France.

Thursday, July 10, 2025 - Sunday, July 20, 2025

2025 Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival, Moseley Park, Birmingham.

Friday, July 11, 2025 - Sunday, July 13, 2025