Laura Lawton emerges plus Gig of the Month coming up is Steve Nelson at the Pizza on Thursday
Bymarlbank31 August 2026Jazz meteorology that's an el niño of a ride. Another of the year's top live albums
Bymarlbank31 August 2026Flockin’ ‘ell - Sheppard is back
Bymarlbank30 August 2026The drought of quality avant piano trio albums is over. Drink the sweet rain
Bymarlbank29 August 2026An album that sounds more like a jazz album than a country one starts a weekend of new listening
Bymarlbank28 August 2026Highlights on the live club and small venue scene coming up
Bymarlbank28 August 2026A new version of 'You Again' turns the lamp down low
Bymarlbank28 August 2026Luck out. Listen up. It's a trip
Bymarlbank27 August 2026Does Windflower stand out enough in a crowded field?
Bymarlbank25 August 2026One of Ireland's leading jazz voices returns
Bymarlbank25 August 2026One of the best live albums that I have come across this year. Wong & Redman hit it off big time
Bymarlbank24 August 2026Stirring avant-garde adventure
Bymarlbank23 August 2026Familiar fare, in the large part winningly conveyed
Bymarlbank19 August 2026An attractive spread of leading British jazz acts are included in the Swansea mix
Bymarlbank17 August 2026A luminous Irving Berlin interpretation is this week's choice
Bymarlbank17 August 2026Is this new one as good as Whistling in the Dark?
Bymarlbank17 August 2026An ideal introduction
Bymarlbank17 August 2026The 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.

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