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

Month: May 2026

Miles Davis
News

Miles Davis centenary marked with broadcast

One Jazz marks 100 years of Miles Davis with a 48-hour global broadcast

Bymarlbank18 May 2026
News

Africa Oyé Returns to Liverpool

Liverpool’s Sefton Park is the place to be this summer for a major 2026 line-up led by Fatoumata Diawara, Patoranking and Janet Kay. The UK’s...

Bymarlbank18 May 2026
Reviews

Gustaf Ljunggren, Along the Low Road, April Records ***

A naturalistic, gentle listen full of sweeping chordal washes and mindful malarkey.

Bymarlbank18 May 2026
Album of the WeekReviews

Steve Wilson, Enduring Sonance, Smoke Sessions **** recommended

There's a lot of spirit in the rendition here of a strong selection of tunes including material by Quincy Jones and Milton Nascimento.

Bymarlbank18 May 2026
Reviews

Hermine Deurloo and Anton Goudsmit, Unfiltered, Challenge ***1/2

Charming harmonica and guitar duetting. Includes tunes by Bill Frisell and Enrico Pieranunzi.

Bymarlbank17 May 2026
KAZUKI YAMANAKA
Reviews

Kazuki Yamanaka, Humanity, Whirlwind ***1/2

Detailed bebop derived listening required

Bymarlbank14 May 2026
Scott Hamilton photo Wikipedia
Reviews

Scott Hamilton, In the Still of the Night, GLM Music ****

The use of vibes against sax and the choice of tunes are some of the reasons to like this swinging latest from Scott Hamilton

Bymarlbank13 May 2026
Reviews

Full Circle Quartet, Same Sky, No label ***

A south coast of England sound that is big on mindfulness and gentle melodic development.

Bymarlbank11 May 2026
Album of the WeekReviews

Matthew Stevens, Matthew Stevens, Candid ****

An ambient, late night kind of listen factoring in originals of Canada born guitarist Matthew Stevens plus Leadbelly and Sonny Sharrock numbers

Bymarlbank11 May 2026
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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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