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The art of the Quartet: Peter Erskine - Kevin Hays, Benjamin Koppel and Scott Colley are playing the Paradox club in Tilburg on Wednesday night.
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The Grammys continue to neglect the sheer quality of jazz issued beyond America. releases that often eclipse the homegrown product for quality...

By2 February 2026
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Alex Bonney releases a raft of inspiring experimentally minded Earconnectors

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N∆bou, Ruth Goller’s Skylla & Tom Skinner are included among the Brussels Jazz Festival 2026 line-up

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By11 January 2026
Minister of State for Culture Dr Wolfram Weimer, station manager Oliver Dunk, jazz singer Martina Barta and the artistic director of the Jazz Institute Berlin Prof. Paulo Morello press the red button to launch Ella Radio (Image: © Brigitte Dummer)
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German jazz radio station Ella launches

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By6 January 2026
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Cleveland Watkiss, Vincent Herring and Pat Bianchi are among the top Dock Street Jazz Club draws for early-2026

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By2 January 2026
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Ian Shaw, Julian Siegel & Brigitte Beraha are big Limerick draws for ’25

Lots of delights guaranteed down in Limerick at the jazz this autumn as some leading stars of the music descend on Shannonside.

By19 September 2025

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

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.