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Jazz Album Reviews

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

Five-Way Split

Modus Operandi

Shai Maestro

The Guesthouse

Taupe

waxing / waning

Jazz Sabbath

Jazz Sabbath Live

Aleph Aguiar

Sugar on my Blackbeans

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Billy Marrows Band

Dancing On Bentwood Chairs

Marrows impresses as a guitarist and even more so as a writer. His compositions are intelligent and imaginative and embrace a wide variety of influences, musical and otherwise.

Julie Campiche

Unspoken

Her most personal, but also most political, recording to date “Unspoken” represents a powerful and thought provoking statement from Campiche.

Harry Christelis

Preserving Fictions

Another impressive statement from Christelis, the composer and principal architect of this intriguing, intelligent, immersive and often beautiful music.

Søren Bebe Trio

Gratitude

Perhaps the ultimate expression of the Bebe Trio’s sound. They have distilled the essence of their music and have ‘polished the diamond’ to sparkling perfection.

Live Jazz Reviews

Small Blue

Small Blue, Jazz at Progress, Progress Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, 27/03/2026.

Brass Band Bychan

Brass Band Bychan, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre for the Arts, Abergavenny, 29/03/2026.

Peiriant / Awen Ensemble

Awen Ensemble / Peiriant, Sy; Gigs, St. Alkmund’s Church, Shrewsbury, 28/03/2026.

Yessaï Karapetian Quintet

Yessaï Karapetian Quintet, Princess Grace Theatre, Monaco, 22/03/2026

Romarna Campbell Trio

Romarna Campbell Trio, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 26/03/2026.

Mark Hummel Trio / Mike Bird & Friends

Mark Hummel Trio / Mike Bird & Friends, Mid Wales Rhythm & Blues Club, The Muse, Brecon, 22/03/2026.

Jazz Mann Features

Music Spoken Here celebrates fourth birthday.

Instigated by Dave Fuller in 2022 Music Spoken Here presents contemporary jazz, fusion, funk and soul on a fortnightly basis at The Marr's Bar, Worcester.

Jazz a Juan 2026 - A Preview.

Colin May looks ahead to the 65th edition of the French jazz festival Jazz a Juan, which will take place in July 2026, and interviews two of its organisers, Reno di Matteo and Maryline Bailly.

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