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The W, Mikrokosmos, TYZart**** recommended

Following the example of Chick Corea, Bruno Heinen's The W for Mikrokosmos zones in specifically on Book 6. What a...
20 April 2026 marlbank

Let Spin, I Am Alien, Discus ****

I have no idea what "post jazz" means, a term sometimes trotted out to describe Let Spin. It trips off...
20 April 2026 marlbank
Talkline

Talkline, Growing Pains, Milk Man EP ***1/2

Words matter. Experiencing the fuller Talkline further joins the dots between poignant 1970s-like singer-songwritery that's rooted in a liking for...
19 April 2026 marlbank

The “art of the prompt”

“My arse” - Jim Royle would have responded. But the jig will be well and truly up come that *happy...
18 April 2026 marlbank

The Shieling wins Jazz FM album of the year

Fergus McCreadie wins big at the Jazz FM awards
16 April 2026 marlbank

Peter Erskine, Peregrine, Hard Wag Records **** highly recommended

A winning array of Keith Jarrett, Phoebe Snow, Alan Pasqua, Peter Erskine, Brian Wilson and Jimmy Webb material contained within...
13 April 2026 marlbank
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Stephen began writing reviews for Turkish Daily News while living in Ankara in the early 1990s. Following a move to Poland, he worked as assistant editor on the English edition of Jazz Forum. In London where he lived for more than 25 years, he began a job as assistant editor at the Islington and later Mayfair based Jazz on CD, where he worked from 1993 to 1995. In Streatham, he became founder editor of Jazzwise in 1997, and worked there on staff for 15 years. His interview features have appeared in a range of publications including Jazz Express, The Wire, The Independent, Maxim and Downbeat. He has interviewed many leading figures in the jazz and broader music world including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Carmen Lundy, Grover Washington Jr, Marc Johnson, Charlie Watts, Jools Holland, Betty Carter, Colin Towns, Tomasz Stańko, Jack DeJohnette, Phil Collins, Nigel Kennedy, John Abercrombie, Christian McBride, Branford Marsalis, Courtney Pine, Steve Williamson, Lady Blackbird, Gary Crosby, Ian Shaw, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Wynton Marsalis, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Monty Alexander, Kandace Springs, Somi, Lionel Loueke and new stars like James Francies and Immanuel Wilkins to name just a few. Radio work has included voiced and scripted features for BBC Radio 3. In recent years work has been hard to come by on the dark end of the street on the road to nowhere. But Marlbank always keeps the dream alive.

Roam on! The light
we sought is shining still

- Matthew Arnold, 'Thyrsis' (1866)

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