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NEW podcast faves and a quick catch-up

Published: 26 Jul 2024. Updated: 11 hours ago.

Scott Kinsey, Luniwaz Live: The Music of Joe Zawinul, Whirlwind ****

Published: 26 Jul 2024. Updated: 13 hours ago.

''Jazz Barry'' - the search continues

Published: 25 Jul 2024. Updated: 33 hours ago.

Brian Ho, Bridges, Cellar Live ***1/2

Published: 24 Jul 2024. Updated: 38 hours ago.

What's on in the jazz clubs

Published: 24 Jul 2024. Updated: 2 days ago.

Today's greatest European jazz acts

Published: 23 Jul 2024. Updated: 2 days ago.

Album of the week: Ross Lorraine, More From The Heart, Ross Lorraine Records ****

Published: 22 Jul 2024. Updated: 3 days ago.

The elemental vision of Bjørn Charles Dreyer's Fourth Wave And The Moon

Published: 22 Jul 2024. Updated: 4 days ago.

Track of the week Glenn Zaleski, I Wish I Knew

Published: 22 Jul 2024. Updated: 4 days ago.

Robby Ameen, Live at the Poster Museum, Origin ****

Published: 21 Jul 2024. Updated: 5 days ago.

A strong year for vocals gets even better: with the new Michael Mayo album Fly winging in soon

Published: 21 Jul 2024. Updated: 5 days ago.

Mark Lettieri Can I Tell You Something? GroundUp ***1/2

Published: 20 Jul 2024. Updated: 6 days ago.

Best vibes 10 - ranked - so far in 2024

Published: 19 Jul 2024. Updated: 7 days ago.

Jill Barber Encore! Outside music ***

Published: 19 Jul 2024. Updated: 7 days ago.

Neil Cowley on the return of his hit trio

Published: 19 Jul 2024. Updated: 12 hours ago.

Louis Hayes, Artform Revisited, Savant ***1/2

Published: 18 Jul 2024. Updated: 8 days ago.

Euro jazz scene club choice

Published: 18 Jul 2024. Updated: 8 days ago.

Rosario Giuliani Quartet, Logbook: Live At Sounds, Hypnote ****

Published: 17 Jul 2024. Updated: 9 days ago.

U. S. club choice

Published: 17 Jul 2024. Updated: 9 days ago.

Ivanna Cuesta, A Letter to the Earth, Orenda ***

Published: 16 Jul 2024. Updated: 10 days ago.

Album of the week: Enrico Rava, Fearless Five, Parco Della Musica ****

Published: 15 Jul 2024. Updated: 10 days ago.

Track of the week: Silence by Emil de Waal feat. Susan Alcorn

Published: 15 Jul 2024. Updated: 11 days ago.

The BBC Proms begin this Friday - jazz flavours include a Sarah Vaughan centenary tribute from Lizz Wright

Published: 15 Jul 2024. Updated: 11 days ago.

Top 10 UK jazz albums JAN-JULY

Published: 15 Jul 2024. Updated: 11 days ago.

10 top European jazz club gigs this week

Published: 15 Jul 2024. Updated: 11 days ago.

Harry Skoler, Red Brick Hill, Sunnyside ***1/2

Published: 14 Jul 2024. Updated: 12 days ago.

Eric Alexander and Mike LeDonne, Together, Cellar Live ****

Published: 14 Jul 2024. Updated: 12 days ago.

Latest word in the weekly marlbank podcast

Published: 14 Jul 2024. Updated: 12 days ago.

Naama, Wild is Love, La Reserve **** recommended

Published: 13 Jul 2024. Updated: 12 days ago.

5 top jazz gigs: UK and Ireland scene

Published: 13 Jul 2024. Updated: 11 days ago.

The 10 jazz singers - and links to their albums - making 2024 such a formidable vocals year so far

Published: 12 Jul 2024. Updated: 11 days ago.

Vocals album of the week: Milton Suggs, Pure Intention, Imani Records **** recommended

Published: 12 Jul 2024. Updated: 14 days ago.

Linda Sikhakhane, Iladi, Blue Note/Universal Music Africa ****

Published: 12 Jul 2024. Updated: 14 days ago.

Greg Skaff, Re Up, Soulmation Records ***1/2

Published: 11 Jul 2024. Updated: 15 days ago.

Most read on marlbank recently

Published: 11 Jul 2024. Updated: 7 days ago.

Seamus Blake and Alessandro Lanzoni, From Angels ****

Published: 11 Jul 2024. Updated: 15 days ago.

Jordina Millà and Barry Guy, Live in Munich, ECM ***1/2

Published: 10 Jul 2024. Updated: 16 days ago.

Jonas Johansen, Lennart Ginman, Thor Madsen, Adventure, Zack's Music ***

Published: 10 Jul 2024. Updated: 16 days ago.

Luther Allison, I Owe It All To You, Posi-Tone **** Recommended

Published: 10 Jul 2024. Updated: 16 days ago.

Stemseder Lillinger Quartet feat. Peter Evans & Russell Hall, Umbra II, Intakt ***

Published: 9 Jul 2024. Updated: 17 days ago.

Mike Westbrook, Band of Bands, Westbrook Records ***1/2

Published: 9 Jul 2024. Updated: 17 days ago.

Track of the week: Jerome Sabbagh, 'Right the First Time,' Analog Tone Factory

Published: 9 Jul 2024. Updated: 17 days ago.

The 10 US and Canada jazz labels figuring mostly on our radar this year - ranked!

Published: 8 Jul 2024. Updated: 18 days ago.

Albert Bover, A Parisian Affair, Fresh Sound ***1/2

Published: 8 Jul 2024. Updated: 18 days ago.

Carlos Bica, 11:11, Clean Feed **** recommended

Published: 8 Jul 2024. Updated: 18 days ago.

John Lee, Second Wind, Cellar Live ***

Published: 8 Jul 2024. Updated: 18 days ago.

Phillip Golub, Abiding Memory, Berthold Records, Endectomorph ***1/2

Published: 7 Jul 2024. Updated: 19 days ago.

Giovanni Guidi, A New Day, ECM *****

Published: 6 Jul 2024. Updated: 20 days ago.

FIVE top UK jazz gigs coming up

Published: 6 Jul 2024. Updated: 20 days ago.

Most read this week

Published: 5 Jul 2024. Updated: 20 days ago.

Who's playing the Euro jazz clubs? FIVE top gigs

Published: 5 Jul 2024. Updated: 21 days ago.

Black Diamond, Furniture of the Mind Rearranging, WeJazz ***1/2

Published: 5 Jul 2024. Updated: 21 days ago.

Steve Turre, Sanyas, Smoke Sessions Records ****

Published: 5 Jul 2024. Updated: 21 days ago.

I Mean You heralds Monkin' Around

Published: 4 Jul 2024. Updated: 22 days ago.

The 20 top UK jazz singers - ranked!

Published: 4 Jul 2024. Updated: 22 days ago.

Orlando Le Fleming and Romantic Funk, Wandering Talk, Whirlwind ****

Published: 3 Jul 2024. Updated: 23 days ago.

Misha Tsiganov, Painter of Dreams, Criss Cross Jazz ***1/2

Published: 3 Jul 2024. Updated: 23 days ago.

Album of the week: Janis Siegel and Yaron Gershovsky, The Colors of My Life, Club 44 Records **** Recommended

Published: 2 Jul 2024. Updated: 24 days ago.

The 20 top UK jazz pianists - ranked!

Published: 2 Jul 2024. Updated: 24 days ago.

Track of the week: After You by Ross Lorraine

Published: 1 Jul 2024. Updated: 24 days ago.

UK Jazz Album of the Week: John Williamson, The Northern Sea, Ubuntu ***1/2

Published: 1 Jul 2024. Updated: 25 days ago.

All-instrumentals 10 track top NEW JAZZ

Published: 1 Jul 2024. Updated: 23 days ago.

Yvonnick Prené and Geoffrey Keezer, Jobim's World, Sunnyside Records ***1/2

Published: 1 Jul 2024. Updated: 25 days ago.

Bernd Lhotzky, The Gallery Concerts III, Rag Bag, ACT ***1/2

Published: 30 Jun 2024. Updated: 25 days ago.

Michael Eckroth Group, Human Geography, Truth Revolution Recording Collective ***1/2

Published: 30 Jun 2024. Updated: 9 days ago.

UK jazz gig choice

Published: 29 Jun 2024. Updated: 27 days ago.

Eliane Elias, Time and Again, Candid ****

Published: 28 Jun 2024. Updated: 28 days ago.

10 most read stories this week

Published: 28 Jun 2024. Updated: 28 days ago.

Andrew Irwin and Joe Hill, Saddlers, Enniskillen ***

Published: 28 Jun 2024. Updated: 20 days ago.

Euro jazz clubs - the 5 gigs to go to

Published: 27 Jun 2024. Updated: 29 days ago.

Peter Vuust and Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, New Views, Storyville ***

Published: 27 Jun 2024. Updated: 29 days ago.

All-vocals jazz 10 playlist inc. the new blue, resurgent crew and set to breakthrough few

Published: 27 Jun 2024. Updated: 21 days ago.

Celebration, Volume 1 Wayne Shorter release to be issued in late-August

Published: 26 Jun 2024. Updated: 30 days ago.

Soweto Kinch to guest on next Sultan Stevenson album El Roi

Published: 26 Jun 2024. Updated: 30 days ago.

Emiliano Lasansky, The Optimist, Outside In Music ***1/2

Published: 26 Jun 2024. Updated: 30 days ago.

EP of the week: Jacob Karlzon, Four Elements, Nilento True

Published: 25 Jun 2024. Updated: 31 days ago.

US jazz album of the week: Stefon Harris, Sonic Creed Vol II: Life Signs, Motéma ****

Published: 25 Jun 2024. Updated: 31 days ago.

Live album, top Eurojazz & album of the week: Tomasz Stańko Quartet, September Night, ECM *****

Published: 24 Jun 2024. Updated: 30 days ago.

Track of the week: A House Is Not A Home (Blue Engine), Sarah Hanahan

Published: 24 Jun 2024. Updated: 32 days ago.

Jihee Heo, Flow, Origin/OA2 ***

Published: 24 Jun 2024. Updated: 32 days ago.

Richard Fairhurst, Inside Out, Ubuntu ****

Published: 23 Jun 2024. Updated: 33 days ago.

Daniel Meron, Pendulum, Pinch ***1/2

Published: 23 Jun 2024. Updated: 33 days ago.

Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants, Blue Engine ****

Published: 22 Jun 2024. Updated: 33 days ago.

Marlbank's 30 most popular pieces plus podcast

Published: 22 Jun 2024. Updated: 30 days ago.

The best jazz albums JANUARY-JUNE

Published: 22 Jun 2024. Updated: 12 days ago.

Sebastien Ammann, Change of Course, Ropeadope ***1/2

Published: 21 Jun 2024. Updated: 34 days ago.

Top grassroots UK & Ireland gig snapshot

Published: 21 Jun 2024. Updated: 35 days ago.

Something Else! Featuring Vincent Herring, Soul Jazz, Smoke Sessions Records ****

Published: 21 Jun 2024. Updated: 35 days ago.

Altus, Mythos, Biophilia ***

Published: 20 Jun 2024. Updated: 36 days ago.

Clarence Penn, Behind the Voice, Origin***

Published: 20 Jun 2024. Updated: 36 days ago.

Avery Sharpe, I Am My Neighbors Keeper, JKNM ***1/2

Published: 20 Jun 2024. Updated: 36 days ago.

Take an ad - gain more presence

Published: 19 Jun 2024. Updated: 23 days ago.

Mateusz Smoczyński, Adam's Apple, Warner Music Poland ***1/2

Published: 19 Jun 2024. Updated: 37 days ago.

Phil Merriman Trio, The Roots Beneath ***1/2

Published: 19 Jun 2024. Updated: 37 days ago.

Threeway, Harken! (Jazz Cat) ***

Published: 19 Jun 2024. Updated: 37 days ago.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Bryan Stevenson, Freedom, Justice and Hope, Blue Engine ****

Published: 19 Jun 2024. Updated: 37 days ago.

Ari Tsugi, Simultaneity, Rebecca's Records ***

Published: 18 Jun 2024. Updated: 38 days ago.

Irvine Welsh is on Jazz FM's Book Club

Published: 18 Jun 2024. Updated: 38 days ago.

Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund, e.s.t. 30, ACT ***

Published: 18 Jun 2024. Updated: 38 days ago.

Guidi originals and the 'Carol of the Birds' on A New Day featuring James Brandon Lewis

Published: 18 Jun 2024. Updated: 38 days ago.

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