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Features

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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Sunday at Brecon Jazz Festival - 9th August 2009

More great music as Brecon comes back from the brink (Photo: Tim Dickeson)

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Jazz Mann News

Shrewsbury Jazz Network announce programme for January, February and March 2026.

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Shrewsbury Jazz Network has announced its programme for the first three months of 2026. Events take place at The Hive Music & Media Centre, Shrewsbury. Fully detailed schedule attached.

EFG London Jazz Festival wins “Festival Of The Year” at The LIVE Awards 2025.

Friday, December 12, 2025

EFG London Jazz Festival has been honoured with the prestigious Festival of the Year award at The LIVE Awards 2025, held on 10 December 2025 at Troxy in East London. Press release attached.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts, New York City, announces the Winter 2026 season of its free POP-UP CONCERTS, January, February, March 2026.

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Miller Theatre’s hour-long, musician-curated Pop-Up Concerts—free, informal, and intimate—bring the audience right onto the stage. 2026 Winter programme attached.

Jazz Gigs & Events

Chris Gibbons Band at Southbound, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

Saturday, December 13, 2025 - Sunday, December 14, 2025

Darius Brubeck Quartet ‘music of the Brubecks’ at Union Chapel, Islington, London.

Monday, December 15, 2025

Outside UP! at Leicester Jazz House, International Arts Centre, Garden Street, Leicester.

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Amuse Manouche at The Lion’s Den, Midhurst.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

A Winter Solstice Evening with the Aidan Thorne / Will Barnes Duo at The Garden Room, Left Bank Village, Hereford.

Thursday, December 18, 2025