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Jazz Album Reviews

Swing From Paris

Under Paris Skies

An excellent album that explores a commendably wide range of material within an overall gypsy jazz instrumental format. This album & their entertaining & informative live shows are highly recommended

Ursula Harrison and Sylvie Noble Duo

New Eve

Leverton Fox

Eternal Gong Bath of the Sunbed Mind

Tommaso Starace Organ Trio

Live at The Beaver Inn

Pat Metheny

Side Eye III +

Hilary Geddes Quartet

Redleaf

OK Aurora

Hope

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Tim Garland and Geoffrey Keezer

Mezzo

Ultimately the triumph is Garland's, the instigator of the project and its principal composer, and also a true virtuoso of that rarest of musical beasts, the mezzo-soprano saxophone.

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.

Live Jazz Reviews

John Horler Trio

John Horler Trio - ‘Celebrating Bill Evans’, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London, 14/06/2026.

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.

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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Jazz Gigs & Events

54th Annual Stanford Jazz Festival, various venues, Stanford University Campus, Stanford, California, USA.

Sunday, June 21, 2026 - Friday, July 31, 2026

Jon Batiste, Residency at Koko, London.

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

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