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  • Album of the Week
  • Jazz album ’26 choice
  • Live reviews
  • News
  • Record reviews
  • Track choice
  • Album of the Week
  • Jazz album ’26 choice
  • Live reviews
  • News
  • Record reviews
  • Track choice
FeaturedPreviewedThis just in

Finding A New Voice + Great Vibes

Laura Lawton emerges plus Gig of the Month coming up is Steve Nelson at the Pizza on Thursday

Bymarlbank31 August 2026
Album of the WeekReviews

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

Bymarlbank31 August 2026
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

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
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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Relevant Monday playlist - and a birthday

The Monday prompt is obvious. Less so the candles mention. But the Someone Tried to Sell Me a Bridge Lead Belly cover therein is a Monday one and links. Because Its inclusion chimes with the fact that its interpreter Sir Van Morrison is 81 today. While he does other styles he is the greatest jazz musician in spirit and sometimes style that Ireland, north and south, has ever produced whether distracted away from the genre which he clearly knows inside out in terms of feeling and empathy singing the blues, country, blue eyed soul, trad Irish, skiffle or early rock and roll as is his frequent wont. You want proof? OK. His best jazz album is below as one example, others include his work with the late Joey DeFrancesco and a certain pick your jaw up off the floor appearance with Chet Baker years before that like How Long... took place in shrine of all shrines Ronnie Scott's eternal home of jazz in England - that ain't gonna change any time soon - since it decamped over from what is now Chinatown where it began in 1959.

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

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

Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their elementKurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their element31 August 2026marlbank
Top jazz albums so far in 2026Top jazz albums so far in 202623 August 2026marlbank
Track choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr - Amazing GraceTrack choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr - Amazing Grace24 August 2026marlbank

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

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

“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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