Your Brother’s Keeper, Gary Bartz, Where Rivers Meet Brownswood Recordings ★★★★☆
A groundbreaking meeting of minds music of the spheres
Looking ahead to the 2026 London Jazz Festival
More on this year's London Jazz Festival
Dylan Jones to debut
London trumpeter Dylan Jones to release debut album Statue on 26 June via Banger Factory Records, with new single Plastic Petals out 12 June.
Glasgow prepares for landmark jazz anniversary
A landmark festival of international clout clocks up 40 years
Tomorrow’s Warriors and Bank of America
Deal sealed that signals corporate support for the Tomorrow's Warriors big band.
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Kat Eaton, What Happens Now, Reason and Rhyme ****
Spolit for choice there's so much here - Kat Eaton delivers
Johanna Summer, Dialoge, ACT ****
A series of remarkable classically inspired two piano encounters prove full of grace. There's a remarkable sense of uncrowded poise and stillness to everything achieved here. Write it off as…
Paul Dunmall, Afraid to Speak, Discus Music **** recommended
There are lots of layers to this tender, edgy in places, gem from English free-jazz veteran saxist Paul Dunmall
Goldings, Bernstein, Stewart
Summer highlight
Nils Berg and the Norrbotten Big Band, Paid To Cry, Hoob Records **** recommended
Tapping into the Swedish blues via a tender big band approach
Young Irish Jazz contest
New talent? The context is the Young Irish jazzer contest
A giant of the music departs with the news that Sonny Rollins has died
The last major figure of the bebop era departs this vale of tears.
Jeremy Siskind, Seeking Balance, Outside in Music **** recommended
Claire Martin is sublime particularly on 'Snow'. And ripples from the instrumentals of the Siskind led piano trio cascade in ever increasing circles so agreeably.
Eliane Elias, Ao Vivo, Candid ***1/2
A very receptive San Francisco audience hangs on every note it seems, on this latest from Brazilian bossa nova piano and vocals icon Eliane Elias.
Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination, Intakt Records ***1/2
Abstractions dissolve into generous vamps and a freedom-loving swirl of flute, harp and electronics
Track of the Day – ‘C’è’ sung by Tosca and Silvia Pérez Cruz
Bit of a swoonsome listen for a Staurday. And why not
Jasmine Myra, Where Light Settles, Gondwana ****
What a breakthrough from the saxophonist and composer.
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