Jazz Posts

Soweto Kinch and the London Symphony Orchestra, White Juju, LSO Live *****

Published: 2 Dec 2022. Updated: 8 hours ago.

Op and at it: the Manc ranked Beats & Pieces Big Band return to the road with a January release for Good Days

Published: 1 Dec 2022. Updated: 23 hours ago.

Kurt Vonnegut inspires the Jason Yeager septet

Published: 1 Dec 2022. Updated: 23 hours ago.

Emma Smith, Snowbound, Wingsor Castle Records ****

Published: 1 Dec 2022. Updated: 29 hours ago.

Ezra Collective win best jazz act Mobo

Published: 1 Dec 2022. Updated: 37 hours ago.

Arve Henriksen, Kjetil Husebø, Sequential Stream, Smalltown Supersound ***

Published: 30 Nov 2022. Updated: 43 hours ago.

The jazz labels on a winning streak

Published: 30 Nov 2022. Updated: 44 hours ago.

Reasons to be cheerful part 3 looking ahead to 2023 - ace James Brandon Lewis Eye of I tracks to savour

Published: 30 Nov 2022. Updated: 2 days ago.

2022 best albums overall playlist

Published: 29 Nov 2022. Updated: 2 days ago.

Vocals 2022 playlist - best of the best

Published: 29 Nov 2022. Updated: 2 days ago.

UK 2022 playlist - best of the best

Published: 29 Nov 2022. Updated: 2 days ago.

This week's top gigs

Published: 28 Nov 2022. Updated: 3 days ago.

Short form - the new norm?

Published: 28 Nov 2022. Updated: 4 days ago.

Hanakiv, featuring Alabaster dePlume, No Words Left, Gondwana ***1/2

Published: 28 Nov 2022. Updated: 4 days ago.

Benny Goodman swing star Louise Tobin dies at 104

Published: 27 Nov 2022. Updated: 5 days ago.

First stirrings fly from Mette Henriette's Drifting as the Norwegian saxist returns

Published: 26 Nov 2022. Updated: 5 days ago.

Nicholas Payton, The Couch Sessions, Smoke Sessions ****1/2

Published: 26 Nov 2022. Updated: 6 days ago.

Hedvig Mollestad and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Maternity Beat, Rune Grammofon ****

Published: 26 Nov 2022. Updated: 6 days ago.

Ken Stubbs, a Day, a Way ****

Published: 25 Nov 2022. Updated: 6 days ago.

Work Money Death, Thought, Action, Reaction, Interaction, Ata Records ***

Published: 25 Nov 2022. Updated: 6 days ago.

Igor di Martino trio, Out of Addiction, Glocal Music ****

Published: 24 Nov 2022. Updated: 7 days ago.

Jiggs Whigham Copenhagen Trio, Jiggs' Back in Town, Storyville ***1/2

Published: 24 Nov 2022. Updated: 118 minutes ago.

Podcast - what makes Standards From Film tick

Published: 23 Nov 2022. Updated: 8 days ago.

Nostalgia 77, Dakar, Jazzman ***1/2

Published: 23 Nov 2022. Updated: 7 days ago.

Lucía Gutiérrez Rebolloso wins the Sassy

Published: 23 Nov 2022. Updated: 9 days ago.

Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story, Willard Jenkins (Ed.) - Duke University Press

Published: 22 Nov 2022. Updated: 9 days ago.

The Ostara Project, The Ostara Project, Cellar Live ***1/2

Published: 22 Nov 2022. Updated: 10 days ago.

Hilario Durán and David Virelles, Front Street Duets, Alma Records ***1/2

Published: 22 Nov 2022. Updated: 7 days ago.

Astonishing and revelatory Brad Mehldau memoir Formation: Building a Personal Canon Part One offers new insights into the thinking of a talismanic jazz pianist

Published: 21 Nov 2022. Updated: 10 days ago.

RBG Trio, Neither Here Nor There, RBG Trio ****

Published: 21 Nov 2022. Updated: 11 days ago.

Sun-Mi Hong, Third Page: Resonance, Edition ***

Published: 20 Nov 2022. Updated: 12 days ago.

Styles this year - still no true innovation remotely in sight

Published: 20 Nov 2022. Updated: 11 days ago.

Blue Lab Beats, Jazztronica Live at Late Night Jazz Royal Albert Hall, Blue Adventure/Decca France ****

Published: 20 Nov 2022. Updated: 6 days ago.

Sebastian Rochford, Kit Downes, Silver Light, ECM *****

Published: 19 Nov 2022. Updated: 12 days ago.

Gig choice - the week ahead

Published: 19 Nov 2022. Updated: 13 days ago.

Influential guitarist Mick Goodrick has died aged 77

Published: 19 Nov 2022. Updated: 13 days ago.

Matters Unknown, We Aren't Just, New Soil ***

Published: 19 Nov 2022. Updated: 13 days ago.

Dezron Douglas, Atalaya, International Anthem ****

Published: 19 Nov 2022. Updated: 13 days ago.

A podcast look ahead to Freight Train - balladry and much Mo in the lens of Paul Clarvis, Liam Noble and Cathy Jordan

Published: 18 Nov 2022. Updated: 14 days ago.

Courtney Pine, Spirituality, Destin-E *****

Published: 18 Nov 2022. Updated: 14 days ago.

The Banger Factory, Warriors, Banger Factory Records ****

Published: 17 Nov 2022. Updated: 13 days ago.

Charlie Stacey, Music Is Healing, Night Dreamer ****

Published: 17 Nov 2022. Updated: 15 days ago.

Journeying through Friselliana to the frontier of prog St. Barbe gear up to launch 'Tellicherry' at Grow

Published: 17 Nov 2022. Updated: 15 days ago.

Leland Whitty, Glass Moon, Innovative Leisure ****1/2

Published: 16 Nov 2022. Updated: 16 days ago.

Caity Gyorgy, Featuring, La Reserve ****

Published: 16 Nov 2022. Updated: 16 days ago.

Tori Freestone wins in the jazz ensemble category at the 2022 Ivors Composers Awards

Published: 16 Nov 2022. Updated: 16 days ago.

Terri Lyne Carrington, Peter Erskine Trio, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade, Wayne Shorter and Yellowjackets among the new Grammy nominations just announced

Published: 15 Nov 2022. Updated: 16 days ago.

Tim Berne, Matt Mitchell, One More, Please, Intakt ****

Published: 15 Nov 2022. Updated: 17 days ago.

Esbjörn Svensson, Home. S, ACT *****

Published: 15 Nov 2022. Updated: 17 days ago.

Tawanda, Smile, Resonance ***

Published: 14 Nov 2022. Updated: 17 days ago.

Eve Risser and the Red Desert Orchestra, Eurythmia, Clean Feed ****

Published: 14 Nov 2022. Updated: 18 days ago.

John Helliwell, Jasper Somsen, Hans Vroomans, Marcel Serierse, Don’t Ever Leave Me, Challenge ****

Published: 14 Nov 2022. Updated: 18 days ago.

The astonishing sound of Nana Rashid - for your radar ahead of Music For Betty

Published: 13 Nov 2022. Updated: 19 days ago.

Blue Lab Beats, Doomcannon, Ego Ella May, Ezra Collective, Jas Kayser and Kokoroko - nominated in the best jazz act category at this year's MOBOs

Published: 13 Nov 2022. Updated: 19 days ago.

Choice gigs for the week ahead

Published: 12 Nov 2022. Updated: 19 days ago.

Too Many Zooz, Pecking Order, Too Many Zooz **** EP

Published: 12 Nov 2022. Updated: 20 days ago.

Track of the day - Wasteground and Weeds: Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook

Published: 12 Nov 2022. Updated: 20 days ago.

Tremendous Top 10 UK pop chart success for Ezra Collective

Published: 11 Nov 2022. Updated: 20 days ago.

Dearest Sister, Collective Heart, ACT ****

Published: 11 Nov 2022. Updated: 21 days ago.

Cat with the knack - Cormac McCarthy

Published: 11 Nov 2022. Updated: 21 days ago.

Bill Frisell, Four, Blue Note ****

Published: 11 Nov 2022. Updated: 21 days ago.

Bird's the word in the podcast as the WDR mint their very own centennial Charlie Parker celebratory cuts

Published: 9 Nov 2022. Updated: 23 days ago.

Matthew Halsall, 'Changing Earth,' Gondwana ****

Published: 9 Nov 2022. Updated: 23 days ago.

Dave O'Higgins and Rob Luft, Pluto, Ubuntu ***

Published: 8 Nov 2022. Updated: 24 days ago.

The extraordinary sound of Blueblut - podcast

Published: 8 Nov 2022. Updated: 24 days ago.

Kirk Lightsey, Live at Smalls Jazz Club, Cellar Live ****

Published: 8 Nov 2022. Updated: 24 days ago.

The Headhunters, Speakers in the House, Ropeadope ***1/2

Published: 7 Nov 2022. Updated: 24 days ago.

Let Spin, Thick As Thieves, Efpi *****

Published: 7 Nov 2022. Updated: 25 days ago.

Just the ticket for the week ahead

Published: 6 Nov 2022. Updated: 26 days ago.

Pat Thomas, Pat Thomas Plays The Duke, New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings ***1/2

Published: 6 Nov 2022. Updated: 25 days ago.

Enter into the Village of the Sun sound - weekend podcast

Published: 6 Nov 2022. Updated: 26 days ago.

Duo Atanasovski, Liberte Toujours, Moonjune ***

Published: 6 Nov 2022. Updated: 26 days ago.

Influential German saxist Gerd Dudek has died at the age of 84

Published: 5 Nov 2022. Updated: 26 days ago.

Tom Skinner, Voices of Bishara, Brownswood ***

Published: 5 Nov 2022. Updated: 24 days ago.

Julie Campiche Quartet, You Matter, Enja ***

Published: 5 Nov 2022. Updated: 27 days ago.

What's Mu

Published: 4 Nov 2022. Updated: 28 days ago.

Agile Experiments, These Are Times For Mind And Spirit, DDR ****

Published: 4 Nov 2022. Updated: 28 days ago.

Ant Law and Alex Hitchcock, Same Moon in the Same World, Outside In ***1/2

Published: 4 Nov 2022. Updated: 28 days ago.

Ezra Collective, Where I'm Meant To Be, Partisan ****

Published: 4 Nov 2022. Updated: 28 days ago.

In the zone with Mark Kavuma - looking ahead to Warrior

Published: 3 Nov 2022. Updated: 28 days ago.

Jeff Parker, Black Box, Belfast ***

Published: 3 Nov 2022. Updated: 24 days ago.

Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy, Eremite ****

Published: 2 Nov 2022. Updated: 28 days ago.

Avram Fefer, Juba Lee, Clean Feed ****

Published: 2 Nov 2022. Updated: 30 days ago.

Sizzling Inn, Street Sight, Hout ***

Published: 1 Nov 2022. Updated: 30 days ago.

The Quill is gone - howdy from Westerns fan Fergus Quill

Published: 1 Nov 2022. Updated: 31 days ago.

Ariel Bart, Documentaries, Ropeadope ****

Published: 1 Nov 2022. Updated: 31 days ago.

Courtney Pine, Spirituality, Destin-E *****

Published: 31 Oct 2022. Updated: 28 days ago.

Andrew McCormack, Terra Firma, Ubuntu ***

Published: 31 Oct 2022. Updated: 32 days ago.

Alex Acuña, Gifts, Le Coq ****

Published: 31 Oct 2022. Updated: 32 days ago.

Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of Mingus, Savant ****1/2

Published: 31 Oct 2022. Updated: 32 days ago.

On a drab old year when ''mind blowing'' albums were few and far between - new in the podcast

Published: 30 Oct 2022. Updated: 33 days ago.

Jeong Lim Yang, Zodiac Suite: Reassured, Fresh Sound ****

Published: 30 Oct 2022. Updated: 33 days ago.

Gig choice for 31 Oct-5 Nov

Published: 30 Oct 2022. Updated: 33 days ago.

Kansas Smitty's, We're Not in Kansas Anymore, Ever/K7 ***

Published: 30 Oct 2022. Updated: 33 days ago.

Euro jazz - top 10 releases in 22

Published: 29 Oct 2022. Updated: 6 days ago.

Nicole McCabe, Landscapes, Fresh Sound ***

Published: 29 Oct 2022. Updated: 33 days ago.

Matt Carmichael, Marram, Edition ****

Published: 28 Oct 2022. Updated: 35 days ago.

Today in the podcast we ask in a time of climate crisis if it is time to ditch physical recording formats such as vinyl and CDs for the sake of the planet

Published: 28 Oct 2022. Updated: 35 days ago.

German club action

Published: 27 Oct 2022. Updated: 36 days ago.