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Eddie Gripper / Alex Clarke Quartet - Eddie Gripper / Alex Clarke Quartet, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 16/02/2025. | Review | The Jazz Mann
Eddie Gripper / Alex Clarke Quartet - Eddie Gripper / Alex Clarke Quartet, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 16/02/2025.. This was a classy performance from a band co-led by two much loved musicians and featuring two more players who are established audience favourites..
Impossible Conversations - Impossible Conversations, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 13/02/2025. | Review | The Jazz Mann
Impossible Conversations - Impossible Conversations, Music Spoken Here, The Marr’s Bar, Worcester, 13/02/2025.. An exceptional evening of music from five brilliant young musicians. Look out for Impossible Conversations, this is a young band that really deserves to take off in a big way..
Matheus Prado Trio - Matheus Prado Trio, ‘A Night in Rio’, Brecon Jazz Club, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon,11/02/2025. | Review | The Jazz Mann
Matheus Prado Trio - Matheus Prado Trio, ‘A Night in Rio’, Brecon Jazz Club, The Muse Arts Centre, Brecon,11/02/2025.. Prado impressed as a musician, vocalist, composer & presenter and received excellent support from keyboard player Paul Jones and drummer Liz Exell. A ray of Brazilian sunshine on a cold February night.
BMJ Collective with Gethin Liddington - BMJ Collective with Gethin Liddington Celebrate the Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 09/02/2025. | Review | The Jazz Mann
BMJ Collective with Gethin Liddington - BMJ Collective with Gethin Liddington Celebrate the Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet, Black Mountain Jazz, Melville Centre, Abergavenny, 09/02/2025.. The latest success in the ‘BMJC With’ series with an excellent audience turn out complementing some excellent music. .
Philip Clouts Quartet - Philip Clouts Quartet, Kidderminster Jazz Club, St. Ambrose Parish Centre, Kidderminster, Worcs. 07/02/2025. | Review | The Jazz Mann
Philip Clouts Quartet - Philip Clouts Quartet, Kidderminster Jazz Club, St. Ambrose Parish Centre, Kidderminster, Worcs. 07/02/2025.. This had been an excellent evening of music making and CD sales were correspondingly brisk, always the sign of a good gig. This is music that deserves to be widely heard. .
The Mark Williams Trio - Long Way Out | Review | The Jazz Mann
The Mark Williams Trio - Long Way Out. Combining jazz and rock influences this is a particularly intelligent brand of ‘fusion’ that makes for very rewarding listening. This threesome find a lot to say within the format of the guitar trio..
Matters Unknown - Matters Unknown, Sy; Gigs, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, 31/01/2025. | Review | The Jazz Mann
Matters Unknown - Matters Unknown, Sy; Gigs, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, 31/01/2025.. Aa show that was variously entertaining, absorbing and thought provoking, exploring elements of jazz, soul, gospel, funk rap, hip hop, electronica and also various African and Latin American musics..
Brandon Allen Quintet - Brandon Allen Quintet, ‘Some Kinda Mean – The Music of David ‘Fathead’ Newman’, Shrewsbury Jazz Network, The Hive Music & Media Centre, Shrewsbury, 08/02/2025. | Review | The Jazz Mann
Brandon Allen Quintet - Brandon Allen Quintet, ‘Some Kinda Mean – The Music of David ‘Fathead’ Newman’, Shrewsbury Jazz Network, The Hive Music & Media Centre, Shrewsbury, 08/02/2025.. Entertaining and educational. Allen’s themed shows are a cut above the usual jazz tributes, partly due to the sheer quality of the playing but also because the material is largely unfamiliar. .
Peter Slavid - ‘European Modern Jazz’ on the radio playlist, first broadcast 09/02/2025. | News | The Jazz Mann
Broadcaster & journalist Peter Slavid has forwarded details of the music played on his UK & European Jazz radio show on 09/02/2025, which is available via a number of UK & international radio stations
Helena Kay to revisit her “Golden Sands” album for Jazz Thursdays at Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, with support from Norman&Corrie. | News | The Jazz Mann
Helena Kay returns to the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh on Thursday 13th February for the second in a series of four concerts that the saxophonist has been invited to curate by the venue.
National Youth Jazz Wales invites applications for a three day course to be held 14-16 April 2025 at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff. | News | The Jazz Mann
NYJW is inviting aspiring young jazz musicians to a 3-day course of workshops, masterclasses & rehearsals, working with renowned jazz educators, culminating in an informal public performance
Double Bill Sunday at Black Mountain Jazz, Abergavenny featuring the Ross Hicks Trio “Three Elms” album launch and the Patrick Barrett-Donlon Quartet’s “Leading From The Back”. | Feature | The Jazz Mann
Guest contributor Debs Hancock, with help from other audience members, on this double bill showcasing two distinctive performances by outstanding young jazz musicians based in Wales.
Peter Slavid - ‘European Modern Jazz’ on the radio playlist, first broadcast 26/01/2025. | News | The Jazz Mann
Broadcaster & journalist Peter Slavid has forwarded details of the music played on his UK & European Jazz radio show on 26/01/2025, which is available via a number of UK & international radio stations