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Saturday at Wall2Wall Jazz Festival, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 30/09/2023.

Ian Mann enjoys a "Jazz Chat" with broadcaster John Hellings and an exceptional musical performance from trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd and her Sextet.

R.I.P. John Marshall (1941 – 2023).

Ian Mann and Trevor Bannister pay tribute to the late, great John Marshall (1941-2023), drummer with three seminal bands, Ian Carr’s Nucleus, Soft Machine and Eberhard Weber’s Colours.

Ezra Collective win 2023 Mercury Music Prize.

Ian Mann with a personal reflection on Ezra Collective's historic victory at the 2023 Mercury Music Prize ceremony, making them the first ever jazz act to win an award first instigated in 1992.

Brecon Jazz Festival 2023, ‘Jazz & Film Weekend’ - The Films - Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th August 2023.

Ian Mann enjoys "Jazz on a Summer's Day", the film about he 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and "Indigo - Revelations in Small Steps", a film about trumpeter Byron Wallen's Indigo quartet by Tom Parsons.

Nice Jazz Festival 2023 - Part Two, 20th and 21st July 2023.

Guest contributor Colin May reports on the final two days of the 2023 Nice Jazz Festival. Performers include SuperBlue, Herbie Hancock, Ezra Collective, GoGo Penguin, Dianne Reeves, Donald Harrison.

Nice Jazz Festival 2023 - Part One, 18th and 19th July 2023.

Guest contributor Colin May reports on the first two days of the 2023 Nice Jazz Festival. Performers include Hiromi, Dave Holland, Gabriels, Immanuel Wilkins, Roberto Fonseca, Emile Londonien.

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Jazz Mann News

Mood Indigo Events - Newsletter, October 2024.

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Mood Indigo Events has published its newsletter for October 2024 which includes details of regular events plus the schedule for the forthcoming October Jazz Piano Series at the 1901 Club, Waterloo.

‘The Drawing Room After Dark’ new jazz series at Brown’s Hotel, Mayfair, London.

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Brown's Hotel in London's Mayfair is launching a live jazz club in early October 2024. The programme is curated by musicians Liam Dunachie and Mátyás Gayer. October programme attached.

Mothers of Invention Keyboard & Synthesizer Legend Don Preston Embarks on First European Solo Tour, September and October 2024.

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Pianist & Synthesizer legend Don Preston will be touring Europe starting in September. Press release including full tour schedule attached.

Jazz Gigs & Events

‘(Dis)possessed’, sound installation by Alex Roth at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland.

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 - Monday, November 04, 2024

Guildford Jazz and Soul Festival, various venues, Guildford, Surrey.

Wednesday, September 04, 2024 - Thursday, October 17, 2024

Emily Francis Trio at Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester.

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Celebration Daze feat. Liz Berry, Ruth Angell, Deborah Rose, Alistair McGowan at St. Anne’s Church, Bewdley, Worcs.

Friday, September 20, 2024

Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival, Islay, Scotland.

Friday, September 20, 2024 - Sunday, September 22, 2024