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  • Live reviews
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Top new artists
  • Top jazz albums so far in 2026
  • Track choice
  • Live reviews
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Top new artists
  • Top jazz albums so far in 2026
  • Track choice
News

Carla Bley classic Lawns streams drawn from Andy Sheppard trio’s Salt Catchers

Flockin’ ‘ell - Sheppard is back

Bymarlbank30 August 2026
Reviews

Punkt. Vrt. Plastik, Kompress, Intakt ****

The drought of quality avant piano trio albums is over. Drink the sweet rain

Bymarlbank29 August 2026
Reviews

Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their element

Jazz meteorology that's an el niño of a ride. Another of the year's top live albums

Bymarlbank28 August 2026
Reviews

The sound of Tony Bennett and Bill Evans touched upon by Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson and Marc Copland

An album that sounds more like a jazz album than a country one starts a weekend of new listening

Bymarlbank28 August 2026
This just in

What’s on

Highlights on the live club and small venue scene coming up

Bymarlbank28 August 2026
Laura Lawton
FeaturedTop new artistsTrack choice

Hey, Laura – It’s You Again

A new version of 'You Again' turns the lamp down low

Bymarlbank28 August 2026
Reviews

Jim McNeely with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, Expeditions, Sunnyside **** recommended

Luck out. Listen up. It's a trip

Bymarlbank27 August 2026
Reviews

Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen, Windflower, ECM ***1/2

Does Windflower stand out enough in a crowded field?

Bymarlbank25 August 2026
News

Autumn Christine Tobin album & tour

One of Ireland's leading jazz voices returns

Bymarlbank25 August 2026
Featured

NEW: The Latest Episode of the Marlbank Podcast plus Review Criteria

Lizz, Wynton and more

Bymarlbank25 August 2026
George Garzone from the Themes for Good Friends cover art
Featured

Albums to look forward to

Along the way ahead

Bymarlbank24 August 2026
Album of the WeekReviews

Cory Wong and Joshua Redman, On A Random Tuesday (Live at The Blue Note) featuring Joshua Redman, Roundwound Media ****

One of the best live albums that I have come across this year. Wong & Redman hit it off big time

Bymarlbank24 August 2026
Reviews

Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto, Fifteen, Nonesuch **** recommended

Stirring avant-garde adventure

Bymarlbank23 August 2026
Reviews

Mads Mathias, Just the Way You Are, Mingus Records ***

Familiar fare, in the large part winningly conveyed

Bymarlbank19 August 2026
Hejira
NewsPreviewed

Swansea International Jazz Festival 2026: Nicolas Meier, Claire Martin, Georgina Jackson & Hejira

An attractive spread of leading British jazz acts are included in the Swansea mix

Bymarlbank17 August 2026
Geoff Keezer and Denise Donatelli
Track choice

Track of the Week: a new version of How Deep Is The Ocean

A luminous Irving Berlin interpretation is this week's choice

Bymarlbank17 August 2026
Reviews

Denise Donatelli, Take My Breath Away, Savant

Is this new one as good as Whistling in the Dark?

Bymarlbank17 August 2026
Album of the WeekReviewsTop new artists

Nicole Yvette’s debut Say Yes is album of the week

An ideal introduction

Bymarlbank17 August 2026
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Welcome note

Thanks for visiting. Not opening time just yet. But what's next, you may well wonder beyond a bit of a recce to see Banjo Paddy playing to dancers down the alley locally very possibly. Look out for the podcast on Monday - lives return in September. Sunday listening is a very decent new number ever so wisely interpreted from Cambridge scene singer the highly more-ish Myles Sanko, 'Slow Down.' SG

Baggy playlist

Track of the year in 2026

Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr | marlbank article
Playing EFG London Jazz Festival in the autumn. Click the pic for the venue link and more gen about it
Track choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr – Amazing Grace

MORE READING have a gander at my review of Lizz & travelling band fam in tow in the agreeably louche surroundings of what was the Soho Revue Bar - formerly the Raymond Revuebar - run in Streatham period Jazzwise long home to the mag in 2008 before moving to Herne Hill five years later. Jazzwise will be 30 years old in late March 2027. Her Lizzness' take on Led Zep's 'Thank You' that night was the ultimate jaw dropper. Recorded version above. It was far better live - that long lost night saw the audience totally unprovoked by cheerleaders or fooled by any showbiz artifice adoring what she had just sung. Oh to have a bootleg to try to recreate the memory even more than what I noted down and can recall. But whatever: you have to let it linger.

"You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand" - Bob Dylan

Track choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr - Amazing GraceTrack choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr - Amazing Grace24 August 2026marlbank
Top jazz albums so far in 2026Top jazz albums so far in 202623 August 2026marlbank
Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their elementKurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their element28 August 2026marlbank

"It took me years to write, will you take a look?" - Paul McCartney

  • Carla Bley classic Lawns streams drawn from Andy Sheppard trio’s Salt Catchers
  • Punkt. Vrt. Plastik, Kompress, Intakt ****
  • Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their element
  • The sound of Tony Bennett and Bill Evans touched upon by Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson and Marc Copland
  • What’s on

“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later” - Miles Davis

Live: Count Basie Orchestra directed by Scotty Barnhart feat. Gunhild Carling, Ronnie Scott’s, Soho ****

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