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Trish Clowes, Byron Wallen, Shannon Barnett, Daniel Casimir, Romarna Campbell, Alina Bzhezhinska HipHarpCollective B: Jazz, Town Hall, Symphony Hall, Birmingham - Tuesday to Friday Drummer Romarna Campbell made a great impact last year during the …

Published: 22 Aug 2022. Updated: 20 months.

Trish Clowes, Byron Wallen, Shannon Barnett, Daniel Casimir, Romarna Campbell, Alina Bzhezhinska HipHarpCollective B: Jazz, Town Hall, Symphony Hall, Birmingham - Tuesday to Friday

Drummer Romarna Campbell made a great impact last year during the stellar A Great Day in London concert on the South Bank.

John J. Williamson trio + Emma Rawicz, East Side Jazz Club, Leytonstone - Tuesday

Janek Gwizdala Trio, Carole Nash Hall, Manchester - Tuesday

The great Curios player Tom Cawley is bass guitar fusion genius Gwizdala's keys head in the band for this top north-west England August show.

Steam Down Ronnie Scott's, Soho - Thursday

Emeli Sandé, Stanley Jordan quartet, Roberto Fonseca, Imelda May, Neil Angilley, Curtis Stigers, Rye International Jazz and Blues Festival, Sussex. Begins on Thursday.

Opening day acts also include the veteran Terry Seabrook and his trio. Soul singer Roachford, classic jazz singer Liane Carroll, and the bebopified Qow trio featuring Tubby Hayes veteran drummer Rev Spike Wells appear on the Saturday. Muddy Waters' son blues star Mud Morgenfield appears on the Sunday as does Jools Holland saxist Derek Nash. With the extraordinary 1980s guitar hero Stanley Jordan in his quartet is bass guitar wiz Laurence Cottle.

Ken Haddock The Cuan Strangford, County Down - Friday

While the context often shifts into the popular commercial song domain also an intuitive jazz singer the long time resident at Belfast's Empire Ken Haddock remains eminently listenable to singing from the phone or Real book regardless.

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The Yussef Dayes Experience, Live at Joshua Tree, Brownswood ****

L-r: Elijah Fox, Malik Venna, Yussef Dayes, Rocco Palladino, Alexander Bourt Still haven't found what I'm looking for? Aye, aye - it's pretty much here. Thoughts in no particular order and otherwise a bomb proof U2-free zone certainly this Joshua …

Published: 22 Aug 2022. Updated: 20 months.

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L-r: Elijah Fox, Malik Venna, Yussef Dayes, Rocco Palladino, Alexander Bourt

Still haven't found what I'm looking for? Aye, aye - it's pretty much here. Thoughts in no particular order and otherwise a bomb proof U2-free zone certainly this Joshua Tree is a groove record - Dayes' reputation as a monster drummer even in the short few years that he has been around ascends still further skywards because of this. The additional surprise is the percussion track layered in by Alexander Bourt on 'Rhythms of Xango'. The sax part played by Malik Venna while actually pretty smooth - and that could have been so horribly wrong - lifts some of the instrumental passages wonderfully and shows you can have sugar with your spice. The colours generated by keyboardist slash synth player Elijah Fox are a joy. Overall, while brief these tracks delivered at the mystical treescape in the Mojave desert amount to Dayes' best release yet. We stress it is not a power record but what it shows is even more of Dayes' skill at the centre of the sound because of this. Finally a word on Rocco Palladino, son of Pino, it's certainly in the genes, who is perfect and surely he is already one of the finest crossover bass guitarists of his generation whose jazz chops can go anywhere. You will know that after only a few moments spent on 'Golden Hour'.

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The Yussef Dayes Experience photo: Soulection on YouTube