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Jazz Album Reviews

Leverton Fox

Eternal Gong Bath of the Sunbed Mind

Finds Leverton Fox continuing to refine their distinctive practice and the results are both interesting and immersive, drawing the listener into their unique sound world.

Tommaso Starace Organ Trio

Live at The Beaver Inn

Pat Metheny

Side Eye III +

Hilary Geddes Quartet

Redleaf

OK Aurora

Hope

Hannah Horton

Stories on the Wind

Tomos Williams’ Cwmwl Tystion

Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Alyn Shipton’s New Orleans Friends

The Oxford Concert

It’s rare to hear trad jazz played as brilliantly as this and I genuinely enjoyed listening to this album.

Five-Way Split

Modus Operandi

An impressive second outing from Five Way Split. Although very much rooted in the hard bop tradition the original writing is intelligent and also surprisingly subtle in terms of colour and texture.

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.

Live Jazz Reviews

Arild Andersen / Daniel Sommer / Rob Luft

Arild Andersen / Daniel Sommer / Rob Luft, St John’s College Auditorium, Oxford, 13/06/2026.

Ibrahim Maalouf

Ibrahim Maalouf and The Trumpets of Michel-Ange The Roundhouse, London, 12/06/2026.

Eddie Gripper

Eddie Gripper Trio, Cheltenham Jazz Club, Victory Club Ballroom, Cheltenham, Glos. 15/06/2026.

BMJ Collective with Nicolas Meier

BMJ Collective with Nicolas Meier, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre for the Arts, Abergavenny, 14/06/2026.

V6 Organ Trio

V6 Organ Trio, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 11/06/2026.

Derek Nash with the PJC Quartet

Derek Nash with the PJC Quartet, Jazz at Progress, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 05/06/2026.

Jazz Mann Features

Brecon Jazz Club presents Music Network Tân Cerdd, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon, 09/06/2026.

Ian Mann enjoys this latest collaboration between Brecon Jazz Club and a collective of singers and musicians associated with the Cardiff based Tân Cerdd Community Interest Company.

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

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Tribute to Sonny Rollins featuring the Eric Alexander Quintet with special guest Nicholas Payton at SMOKE Jazz Club, New York City, USA.

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - Sunday, June 28, 2026

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