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Jazz Album Reviews

Julian Costello Quartet

And All The Birds Were Set Free

Costello has produced a set of varied and consistently melodic compositions for the quartet & their guest, vocalist Georgia Mancio, to work with. The standard of the playing is excellent throughout.

Hannah Horton

Live in Soho

Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis Quartet

Feels Like Home

Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley

Journey to Where

Mark Holub Anthropods

Abundant Shores

Andrew Baker

Warmi

Charlotte Keeffe Right Here, Right Now Quartet

ALIVE! in the studio

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Ross Hicks

Three Elms

Hicks’ writing exhibits an impressive ambition and maturity and he also impresses as a fluent and imaginative piano soloist. It all makes for a very classy package.

Billy Marrows + Grande Famila

Penelope

The music is rich, colourful and varied and the leader is well served by an excellent cast of instrumentalists, who all make substantial contributions to the success of the project.

Clark Tracey Quintet

Introducing Emily Masser

This may be a showcase for the emerging vocal talent that is Emily Masser but it’s also a great band recording with all the members of the quintet contributing hugely to the success of the album.

Q3

Water Speckled Midnight

There will be many listeners who will enjoy Q3’s brand of contemporary melodic jazz, music that borrows from the tradition, but which never gets subsumed by it.

Live Jazz Reviews

Zoe Gilby Quartet

Zoe Gilby Quartet, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 28/04/2024.

Transatlantic Hot Club with Tara Minton

Transatlantic Hot Club with Tara Minton, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 21/04/2024.

Sam Leak’s Looking Glass

Sam Leak’s Looking Glass, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 18/04/2024.

Partikel with Natalie Rozario

Partikel with Natalie Rozario, Shrewsbury Jazz Network, The Hive Music & Media Centre, Shrewsbury, 13/04/2024.

Kareem Kandi World Orchestra

Kareem Kandi World Orchestra, Cave Romangan, Nice, France, 09/03/2024.

Emma Rawicz

Emma Rawicz Quintet, The Spin at The Tap Social, Botley, Oxford, 28/03/2024.

Jazz Mann Features

Poetry & Jazz Improvisation, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 24/03/2024.

"Evocative and thought provoking". Ian Mann reports on a night of words and sounds from poets Ric Hool, Lyndon Davies & Graham Hartill and instrumentalists Ben Thomas, Ross Hicks & Ian Williams.

BMJazz Katz - “Work, Play, Inspire!”

Ian Mann enjoys a performance by Black Mountain Jazz Club's youth ensemble BMJazz Katz and their tutors at the Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 10/03/2024.

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