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

News

POLYGON
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Polygon Portal in Soho

An antidote to casual listening, surely

Bymarlbank22 May 2026
Kyle Eastwood Quintet
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Kyle 5 for Cardiff

Club dates in Wales for the globe trotting Kyle Eastwood and his crack band

Bymarlbank21 May 2026
NewsTrack choice

Isaiah Collier expresses Joy ahead of Ronnie Scott’s date

A new five-track EP called Joy is Collier’s latest release as a bandleader, composer and multi-instrumentalist. The lead single, 'Joy', has been...

Bymarlbank20 May 2026
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“The alternative to curiosity is indifference” – Brad Mehldau

As anyone who has read Brad Mehldau's brilliantly vivid and honest memoir Formation will know, the pianist is a fine prose writer...

Bymarlbank19 May 2026
Dave Brubeck
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Brubeck Living Legacy Prize returns with £7,000 award for emerging jazz artists

Applications open in June.

Bymarlbank18 May 2026
Miles Davis
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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...

Bymarlbank18 May 2026
Steam Down photo: Taylor Hylton
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Barbican adds Moses Boyd Pan-African drums night and Ben LaMar Gay date to Project a Black Planet

Diasporic summer sounds ingeniously curated

Bymarlbank24 April 2026
Glasgow Jazz Festival
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Glasgow Jazz Festival 2026: 10-14 June

Mario Biondi, Courtney Pine, Martin Taylor and more booked to play Glasgow Jazzfest in June.

Bymarlbank22 April 2026
News

The Shieling wins Jazz FM album of the year

Fergus McCreadie wins big at the Jazz FM awards

Bymarlbank16 April 2026
Peter Somuah
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The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival is to host a Dutch jazz strand this summer

A chance to sample a range of top new Dutch jazz talent is an attractive opportunity this summer in Edinburgh.

Bymarlbank19 March 2026
News

Michael Buckley Quartet and Hayley Kavanagh to play the 2026 Kildare Jazz Festival

The Newbridge festival in March books one of Ireland's biggest jazz stars for its annual Kildare jazz gathering. Highlights include an appearance...

Bymarlbank16 March 2026
Oliver Darley
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Darley Bowie EP

The tender side of classic David Bowie songs inhabited extremely convincingly on a new EP.

Bymarlbank3 March 2026
Donovan Haffner
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Mavis Staples, Donovan Haffner and Linda May Han Oh are Jazz FM award nominated for ’26

Up for awards at this April's Jazz FM awards ceremony.

Bymarlbank26 February 2026
Noel McCalla and Derek Nash performing live in concert – photo by Tatiana Gorilovsky
News

Noel McCalla & Derek Nash tour

Lots of dates sprinkled throughout the year.

Bymarlbank25 February 2026
Peter Somuah
News

Latest Walking Distance tracks from lounge jazz trumpeter Peter Somuah are a big step forward

I like the latest tracks from Peter Somuah far more than 2023’s Letter to the Universe.

Bymarlbank25 February 2026
Lauren Henderson
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5 Eurojazz clubs new to us

Club highlights across Europe

Bymarlbank13 February 2026
News

Unheard Kenny Wheeler

Recorded at the Gateway studio in Kingston, south west London, Kenny Wheeler biographer Nick Smart pins the 1995 What Was session down...

Bymarlbank11 February 2026
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Track of the year in 2026 (so far!)

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.

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