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

Month: October 2025

Guest blog

Orbit the cosmic world of Nadya Albertsson

A guest blog from Nadya Albertsson who grew up in Sweden surrounded by music and attributes much of her musical credit to...

Bymarlbank23 October 2025
This just in

We Got By

"Singing a song 'Shoobedoo' while birds and rich folks flew right on by:" Dave McMurray and Kem release a delicious cover of Al Jarreau's 'We...

Bymarlbank22 October 2025
Funkopia
Reviews

Redtenbacher’s Funkestra, Funkopia, RSB Records

Expect beefily ramped up horn arrangements and lots of wiggle room beyond the strictures of the form to noodle nourishingly and groove.

Bymarlbank22 October 2025
This just in

Jonah Phillips, Ananda Brandão and Oli Fitzgerald for Whirlpool

The names of students chosen for the next raft of Whirlpool gigs at London club the Vortex are revealed.

Bymarlbank22 October 2025
Track choice

Track of the Week: ‘Harmonique’ – new from Iain Ballamy – streams

Hard on the heels of a fabulous Anglo-Hungarian live album, 'Harmonique' is the first sounds so far from a new Molecatcher spawned project that's new...

Bymarlbank21 October 2025
Reviews

Otherlands trio, Star Mountain, Intakt

Destination freedom ahead. Chiselled out of cantilevered grooves and raw Ornettian post-serialist clay, Star Mountain is certainly chromatically adventurous and mines covetable rare earth elements...

Bymarlbank20 October 2025
Reviews

Frederik Köster / NDR Bigband, K on the Shore, Traumton

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what...

Bymarlbank19 October 2025
Reviews

SF Jazz Collective, Collective Imagery, SF Jazz

An exhibition inspired collection of original work musically directed by Chris Potter.

Bymarlbank18 October 2025
Reviews

Jason Palmer and Kevin Harris, Shorter Songs, SteepleChase

A pleasure from start to finish

Bymarlbank17 October 2025
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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
Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their elementKurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their element28 August 2026marlbank
Top jazz albums so far in 2026Top jazz albums so far in 202623 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

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