What's not to love about this new collection of Elmo Hope tunes from a talented trio. Langston Hughes wrote and it seems...
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Bymarlbank29 October 2025Pianist Fergus McCreadie's most Scottish statement to date.
Bymarlbank29 October 2025A twice as nice siren call for the faithful.
Bymarlbank28 October 2025Immaculate big band led by a formidable flautist.
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Bymarlbank27 October 2025For Saturday morning listen - our favourite time of the week - it's the Brad Mehldau composition 'Unrequited' in focus in a range of treatments....
Bymarlbank25 October 2025On our radar - Night Song
Bymarlbank25 October 2025

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.
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