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Mark Nightingale, Alan Barnes, James Davison Photo - from the album cover image

Mark Nightingale, Alan Barnes feat. James Davison, Jazz Classics… With A Twist, Woodville ****

Straight ahead sextet settings that set the bar high.
5 March 2026 marlbank

Pat Metheny, Side-Eye III+, Uniquity Music ****

A lovely album, Metheny sets the bar high as ever. But is it an album that has the weight of...
4 March 2026 marlbank
Oliver Darley

Darley Bowie EP

The tender side of classic David Bowie songs inhabited extremely convincingly on a new EP.
3 March 2026 marlbank
Jeremy Pelt

Jeremy Pelt, Our Community Will Not Be Erased, HighNote ***

Not as compelling as Pelt's 2025 album Woven
3 March 2026 marlbank

Mammal Hands, Circadia, ACT ***

A new era begins.
2 March 2026 marlbank
Bex Nash and Sara Colman photo Olivier Burnside

Sara Colman and Rebecca Nash, Ribbons Vol. 1, Stoney Lane ****

A brooding, serious work stocked with more than a few great moments.
1 March 2026 marlbank

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Stephen began writing reviews for Turkish Daily News while living in Ankara in the early 1990s. Moving to Poland, Stephen, who is from Northern Ireland, worked as assistant editor on the English editon of Jazz Forum. Later living in London he began a job as assistant editor at the Islington and later Mayfair based Jazz on CD where he worked from 1993-5. In Streatham he became founder editor of Jazzwise in 1997 and worked there on staff for 15 years.