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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, We The People, Blue Engine **** recommended

State of the art big band jazz couched in Ellingtonia and the classic traditions of jazz as reimagined by an...
25 March 2026 marlbank
Alexander Claffy photo via Cellar Music on Bandcamp

Harvie S, Bright Dawn, Origin ***1/2

Originals and a super cover of Chick Corea's 'Humpty Dumpty' work well. For the jazz double bass lover in your...
25 March 2026 marlbank
Aubrey Johnson photo - via Greenleaf on Bandcamp

Aubrey Johnson, The Lively Air, Greenleaf *****

Keeper of the Lyle Mays flame and more - so much more so remarkably - new from singer-composer Aubrey Johnson.
24 March 2026 marlbank
Human Vibe

Jasper Somsen, Carsten Lindholm, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Human Vibe, Challenge ****

Delicious Eurojazz from this sensitive trio. While Dutch bass master Jasper Somsen's album featuring Dutch guitarist Anton Goudsmit released last...
23 March 2026 marlbank

Joshua Burnside, It’s Not Going to Be Okay, Nettwerk ****

Quite the homespun folk masterpiece from the widely regarded Northern Irish folk musician on his most heartfelt and humane album...
23 March 2026 marlbank

Noa Levy and Paul Edis Trio, Portrait in Evans, Dot Time Records **** recommended

Unveiling their swinging new "modern jazz" album together inspired by the hugely influential Miles Davis Kind of Blue pianist Bill...
23 March 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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