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A few Saturday thoughts on the way I have changed as a listener, on formats, authority bias and publicist induced Pavlovian reactions. A few Saturday thoughts on the way I have changed as a listener, on formats, authority bias and publicist induced Pavlovian reactions.

A critique of critiques

A few thoughts on the way I have changed as a listener and reviewer since Covid: on such coma inducing matters as formats; relying much less on traditional record label branding as a guardrail; the ever thorny subject of so-called authority bias; publicist induced Pavlovian reactions; and being far less "tinny" eared - ideally.

Introducing Kind of Now new soon from Gregory Hutchinson

A Miles Davis centennial spring is in store. 'Orbits' from a must hear new tribute album streaming proves a fillip for the senses introducing Kind of Now. It's the work of Gregory Hutchinson and a stellar collection of mainly US jazzers.
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Michael Buckley Quartet and Hayley Kavanagh to play the 2026 Kildare Jazz Festival

The Newbridge festival in March books one of Ireland's biggest jazz stars for its annual Kildare jazz gathering. Highlights include an appearance by said icon of the scene Michael Buckley and his Quartet, Origin Story and the quintet of Venezuelan guitarist Orlando Molina. Buckley delivered one of his best albums in years recently, the formidable Ebb and Flow.

Mark Turner, Patternmaster, ECM ****

Bass rich quartet studio sounds from tender modernist the poet of the saxophone, Mark Turner. The American tangles up in blue meaningfully with trumpeter Jason Palmer in the top lines.