Album of the Week

Thomas Marriott
Album of the Week

Album of the Week: Thomas Marriott, Screen Time, Imani Records ****

TV and film gems suavely delivered by jazz trumpeter Thomas Marriott and a strong band.

By20 January 2025
Chris Potter, Carl Allen (centre), Christian McBride, photo: Cellar Live on Bandcamp
Album of the Week

Album of the Week: Carl Allen, Tippin’, Cellar Live **** recommended

Any album - as far as committed bop heads are concerned - that begins with a Charlie Parker number as Tippin' does is...

By13 January 2025
Johan Lindvall Trio
Album of the Week

Johan Lindvall Trio, End, Jazzland ****

Album of the week - End is a new beginning

By7 January 2025
Julien Tassin
Album of the Week

Julien Tassin, Wild Around, Challenge Records ****

Album of the Week

By1 January 2025
Claudio Filippini
Album of the Week

Album of the Week: Claudio Filippini Trio, Live Al Gabez 2004, CAM Jazz

A live gem from Italy

By26 December 2024
Renee Rosnes, photo Smoke Sessions on Bandcamp
Album of the Week

Renee Rosnes, Crossing Paths, Smoke Sessions ****

Album of the Week - Brazilian sumptuousness with the great pianist Renee Rosnes joined by Brazilian legends Joyce and Edu Lobo.

By17 December 2024

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A note on Stephen's background. He began writing reviews for Turkish Daily News when 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 under Paweł Brodowski and later living in London got 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. Enniskillen based Marlbank began in 2013. It's named after a vision out there on the Fermanagh and Cavan border in Ireland where you can imagine fireflies. In the words of Frank Ormsby: "ruffled, too,/as though it unearthed some memory of light/from its long blackout, a hospitable core/fit home for fireflies, brushed by fireflies' wings."