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Jazz Album Reviews

Josephine Davies

Satori : Weatherwards

Intelligently written music that is readily accessible and often beautiful, but also subtly challenging. "Weatherwards" confirms the high level of creativity that Satori is capable of.

Henrik Jensen

Above Your House

Michael Chillingworth

Friday The Thirteenth

Perfect Stranger

Unfinished Business

Glasshouse

Silence is a Flower

Edison Herbert

All I Need

Scarla O’Horror

Semiconductor Taxidermy For The Masses

Jazz Mann Recommended Listening

Loz Speyer’s Inner Space

Live in Leipzig

Captures the Inner Space quintet at the top of their game, delivering music at the cusp of structure and improvisation and striking just the right balance between the two.

Norma Winstone and Kit Downes

Outpost of Dreams

The ten tunes are immaculately selected and embrace elements of jazz, folk and classical music, ingredients that bring out the best of this highly talented duo.

John Escreet

the epicenter of your dreams

A fiercely intelligent recording featuring inventive original writing, imaginative interpretations of outside material and some excellent playing.

Ben Carter Quintet

Pulsar

“Pulsar” is successful on its terms but it’s also a recording that exhibits considerable potential for the future, not just for Carter but for all the members of this talented young quintet.

Live Jazz Reviews

Chube

Chube, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 14/11/2024.

Will Barnes Quartet

Will Barnes Quartet, Brecon Jazz Club, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon, 12/10/2024.

Chris Gumbley Quintet

Chris Gumbley Quintet, ‘Tribute to Cannonball’, Kidderminster Jazz Club, St. Ambrose’s Parish Centre, Kidderminster, Worcs., 01/11/2024.

Jakub Klimiuk Quintet

Jakub Klimiuk Quintet, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 31/10/2024.

Joe Bradford Quintet

Joe Bradford Quintet, ‘Tribute to J.J. Johnson’, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 27/10/2024.

Frank Harrison / Mark Hodgson / Laura Jurd / Corrie Dick

Frank Harrison / Mark Hodgson / Laura Jurd / Corrie Dick, Frank and Mark’s, Iffley Village Church Hall, Oxford, 15/10/2024

Jazz Mann Features

Jammin’ Juan 2024, Palais des Congress, Juan-les-Pins, France 6th-8th November 2024.

Guest contributor Colin May enjoys the music of five different acts at this annual showcase event. Performers include Pablo Murgier, Christophe Imbs, Giorgi Mikadze, mohs and Ink.

Wall2Wall Jazz Festival, Abergavenny, Sunday Community Afternoon, 29/09/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys an afternoon of free events in Abergavenny including street music, a youth jazz ensemble, an acapella choir and the Jazz Lounge Piano Trail.

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Jazz Gigs & Events

13th Annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival Presented by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, various venues, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Thursday, November 07, 2024 - Sunday, November 24, 2024