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

Month: October 2025

Donovan Haffner
Reviews

5 new acts to have delivered most significantly on a record so far in 2025

The future is in their hands

Bymarlbank8 October 2025
Reviews

Curtis Harding, Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt, Anti ****

Star trekkin' across the universe

Bymarlbank7 October 2025
Reviews

Carole Nelson Trio, Through the Storm, Livia

Another album to add to a list of the very best Irish jazz releases of the year.

Bymarlbank6 October 2025
Reviews

Till Brönner, Italia, earMusic/edel

After many tries a Till Brönner album that I really like. Shock. So laidback it's horizontal. Dolce vita lounge jazz that works on its own...

Bymarlbank4 October 2025
Uncharted Waters cover art
Reviews

 Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Terje Isungset, Uncharted Waters, All Ice Records

Album of the Week. A peace loving collaboration from a trio of stellar Norwegians evokes Imagery of fog-soft shorelines at twilight where tide and time...

Bymarlbank3 October 2025
Reviews

James Allsopp, Stars and Sand, Vibe Collide Records

A funkily free loving Friday.

Bymarlbank3 October 2025
Reviews

Emma Dayhuff, Innovations & Lineage: The Chicago Project, Division 81 **** recommended

Thought provoking sounds that reward frequent replay and meditation upon.

Bymarlbank2 October 2025
europe jazz network logo
This just in

Dozens of members of Europe Jazz Network signal support for a ceasefire in Gaza

Europe Jazz Network open letter on Gaza circulates.

Bymarlbank2 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, Soho ****

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