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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

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.

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.

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.

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