The Jazz Mann | Jazz music reviews and news from the Jazz Mann Ian Mann

Winner of the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Media, 2019

Jazz Album Reviews

Deborah Rose

Atlas

Drawing on a wide range of inspirations the songs are intelligent, poetic and literate and often downright beautiful.

Uneven Eleven

Live in Brighton

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

20 / 20

Sondre Moshagen Lightning Trio

Lightning

Chris Hodgkins & Lenore Raphael

Pennies From Heaven

Chicuelo & Marco Mezquida

Del alma

Gareth Lockrane Big Band

Box of Tricks

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Tom Ollendorff

Where In The World

With its focus unashamedly on melody “Where In The World” is an often beautiful album capable of appealing to a wide range of jazz listeners.

Steve Lodder

2 Sorts Of 3

It’s a tribute to Lodder that “2 Sorts Of 3” with its mix of electric and acoustic sounds coheres so effectively as an album. This is largely due to the intelligence and quality of his writing.

Tim Richards Trio

Four Aces

Tim Richards is one of the great unsung heroes of British jazz and this is an unpretentious and highly enjoyable album that deserves to be widely heard.

Dave Redmond

All in Motion

Confirms Redmond’s status as one of Ireland’s premier bass players while also enhancing his reputation as a composer and bandleader.

Live Jazz Reviews

Cleveland Watkiss

Cleveland Watkiss Quartet, Frank & Mark’s, Iffley Church Hall, Iffley, Oxford, 10/01/2026.

Davide Giovannini’s Minas Project

Davide Giovannini’s Minas Project, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar. Worcester, 08/01/2026.

Alex Hitchcock Quartet

Alex Hitchcock Quartet, Jazz at Progress, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 02/01/2026.

Eddie Parker’s Airborn

Eddie Parker’s Airborn, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 11/12/2025.

Janette Mason

Janette Mason ReWired Trio, Jazz at Progress, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 05/12/2025.

M. Haiux / Merope

M. Haiux / Merope, Sy ; Gigs, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, 06/12/2025.

Jazz Mann Features

6th Annual Bath Jazz Weekend, Widcome Social Club, Bath, Friday 9th January 2026.

Ian Mann on the film "All Night Long" plus two very different musical performances by the Jon Lloyd Quartet and Raph Clarkson's Equal Spirits.

BMJazz Katz, “Christmas in Sight”, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 07/12/2025.

A Yuletide celebration championing the work of Back Mountain Jazz's youth jazz ensemble the BMJazz Katz and their tutors, the BMJ Collective.

Jazz Mann News

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra gets a new artistic leadership in autumn 2026.

Thursday, January 15, 2026

The new artistic leadership team will comprise of the chief conductor Ville Vannemaa, the artist-in-residence Michael Mayo and the composer-in-residence Bianca Rantala. Press release attached.

Milap, Liverpool announce Spring 2026 Programme showcasing some of the finest UK Indo-Jazz.

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Milap’s Spring programme spotlights some of the UK’s leading Indo-Jazz pioneers, including Zoe Rahman, Arun Ghosh, Sorathy Korwar. Press release attached

World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, Nine Elms, London unveils 2026 live music line-up for January, February and March 2026.