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Jazz Album Reviews

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

Will Barnes Quartet

Outside The Light

Anmol Mohara

Across The Sea

Alex Clarke Quartet

Out of the Woods

Howl Quartet

Night Song

Nils Kavanagh

No Expectations

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Harben Kay

The World I Live In

Once again Kay has delivered an album that combines thoughtful and intelligent writing with excellent playing and which again combines conventional jazz virtues with more contemporary ideas.

Ant Law Quintet

Unified Theories

Intelligent writing and supremely accomplished playing combine to create something very special.

Johnny Richards & Dave King

The New Awkward

A truly remarkable album, adventurous and restlessly inventive, but also genuinely accessible. The range of sounds that the duo, and especially Richards, produce is little short of astonishing.

Finn Genockey

Tacet Trust

"Tacet Trust” is the most outstanding debut album that I’ve heard in some time and deserves to establish Genockey as a major figure on the UK jazz scene and beyond.

Live Jazz Reviews

M. Haiux / Merope

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

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Jazz Ensemble

RWCMD Big Band - ‘A tribute to Quincy Jones’, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 30/11/2025.

Allexa Nava

Allexa Nava Quartet, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 27/11/2025.

Ayra

Ayra, Pizza Express Live, Holborn, London, 20/11/2025 (Part of EFG London Jazz Festival).

Rosie Frater-Taylor

Rosie Frater-Taylor, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 13/11/2025.

Freddie Gavita

The Freddie Gavita Quartet in: “Homage to Freddie Hubbard”, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 07/11/2025.

Jazz Mann Features

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.

EFG London Jazz Festival 2025 - Day Ten, Sunday 23/11/2025.

Ian Mann on the final day of the Festival and performances by the Royal Academy Jazz Orchestra, Billy Marrows / Max Kahn Duo, Terje Isungset's Ice Quartet and Seb Rochford's Finding Ways.

Jazz Mann News

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.

An opportunity for young people.