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Jazz Album Reviews

OK Aurora

Hope

OK Aurora’s blend of jazz and intelligent pop continues to impress. This is music that has considerable potential to reach out to all those listeners who keep an open mind.

Hannah Horton

Stories on the Wind

Tomos Williams’ Cwmwl Tystion

Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy

Julian Arguelles

Echo Fields

Transatlantic Hot Club

Un P’tit Gout de Myrte

Niklas Lukassen

Still Waters

Tim Garland and Geoffrey Keezer

Mezzo

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Shai Maestro

The Guesthouse

Maestro’s sense of adventure and his willingness to embrace a variety of musical styles is something to be celebrated. Overall “The Guesthouse” represents a brave and distinctive artistic statement.

Taupe

waxing / waning

A quite glorious racket, a thrillingly visceral musical ride. Taupe marshal their uncompromising music with skill, conviction & imagination & the playing is crisp, crunching & razor sharp throughout.

Jazz Sabbath

Jazz Sabbath Live

A very welcome souvenir of the Jazz Sabbath live experience. Listening to the music in the home environment heightens one’s appreciation of just how clever Wakeman’s arrangements are.

Aleph Aguiar

Sugar on my Blackbeans

The quality of the playing and writing on this album really is exceptional, and this, allied to the energy and vibrancy of the performances raises the album above the level of the mundane.

Live Jazz Reviews

BMJ Collective with Gareth Williams

BMJ Collective with Gareth Williams, Back Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre for The Arts, Abergavenny, 17/05/2026.

Mark Lockheart Shapeshifter Trio

Mark Lockheart Shapeshifter Trio, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 14/05/2026.

Robin Nolan Trio

Robin Nolan Trio with guest Xenia Porteous, ‘A Jazz Tribute to George Harrison’, Brecon Jazz Club, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon, 12/05/2026.

Jazz Samba

Jazz Samba, Jazz at Progress, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 01/05/2026.

NQ Jazz Orchestra with Matt Carmichael

NQ Jazz Orchestra with Matt Carmichael, NQ Jazz, The Yard, Manchester, 19/04/2026.

Nils Kavanagh

Nils Kavanagh Trio, Black Mountain Jazz, The Melville Centre for the Arts, Abergavenny, 26/04/2026.

Jazz Mann Features

Mid Wales Rhythm & Blues Club, ‘12th Birthday Bash’, The Muse, Brecon, 16/05/2026.

Mid Wales Rhythm & Blues Club celebrates its 12th anniversary with five different performances from Paul Keddle & Friends, Elsie Franklin, Jo & Tim Carley, Terraplane Blues Duo and the Jon Amor Trio

A year with our Nord.

Dave Fuller of Music Spoken Here, Worcester celebrates the first anniversary of the Club's acquisition of a Nord Stage 4 keyboard, purchased with the generous financial assistance of Sumir Karayi.

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Jazz Gigs & Events

manchester jazz festival (mjf2026), various venues, Greater Manchester.

Friday, May 15, 2026 - Sunday, May 24, 2026

Martin Pyne Trio: Small Blue, afternoon event at Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, Shropshire. (Part of Ludlow Piano Festival).

Sunday, May 24, 2026