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Album of the WeekReviews

Randy Ingram, Sound Within, Chill Tone Records ****

Faithful qualities, fateful vision

Bymarlbank20 July 2026
FeaturedNews

Ascenseur pour l’échafaud pianist René Urtreger dies

Famed for his work on a classic Miles Davis film soundtrack for director Louis Malle in the late 1950s.

Bymarlbank19 July 2026
Reviews

Karine Polwart & Pippa Murphy featuring Dave Milligan, Windblown, Hudson ****

Taking a fling at a windswept and interesting listen full of bark and bite

Bymarlbank16 July 2026
News

First track from Synonym streams

A stunning interpretation of a George Michael/Aretha Franklin classic heralds a new album from Meshell Ndegeocello.

Bymarlbank15 July 2026
railway station in london england
This just in

On the last train home

Share your words with a community willing to read what you have to say.

Bymarlbank15 July 2026
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Year to date

Reading the runes

Bymarlbank15 July 2026
Track choice

Track of the Week: Fathers, ‘Pearl’, Blue Note ****

Formed initially for a 2023 residency at the Montreal Jazz Festival before playing subsequent tours of the US and Japan, the Fathers lineup brings together...

Bymarlbank13 July 2026
Conrad Herwig | photo Jay Buchanan | Wikipedia
Album of the WeekReviews

Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of Chick Corea, Savant **** recommended

Feel good all over

Bymarlbank13 July 2026
Reviews

Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond and Ben Riley, So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon, Elemental Music ****

Monk, memories of Ray Drummond and Kenny Barron's Live at Bradley's trio cast a spell.

Bymarlbank11 July 2026
Reviews

Nils Petter Molvær, Be Quiet, Edition ****

Globe trotting duets from the ambient jazz pioneer work their charms in an archetypally haunting way.

Bymarlbank10 July 2026
Reviews

Mat Maneri Quartet, Mist, Sunnyside ***1/2

Blue and lonesome viola led dreaminess shaped through the prism of an avant consciousness

Bymarlbank9 July 2026
News

Top gigs coming up

Who's playing where soon

Bymarlbank9 July 2026
Reviews

Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band, The New Atomic, Trash City Records ***

Zany big band mayhem from the north of England that aims to break the mould

Bymarlbank8 July 2026
Reviews

Zak Irvine, Before Dusk and Dawn EP ****

The Scott Flanigan mentored Robert Glasper inspired Zak Irvine boosts the Irish scene.

Bymarlbank7 July 2026
News

Ezra Collective global tour & album

Australia, Asia & the US await

Bymarlbank7 July 2026
Album of the WeekReviews

Michael Wollny and Émile Parisien, Freiheit, ACT ****

Dynamic duo play

Bymarlbank6 July 2026
Reviews

Empirical, Like Lambs: To the Slaughter, Whirlwind ***1/2

Empirical sound brand new. Personnel and approach have undergone a rejig.

Bymarlbank5 July 2026
News

The Last of Komeda’s Astigmatic Players Günter Lenz Dies Aged 87

Lenz was the final survivor of Krzysztof Komeda’s 1965 masterpiece, Astigmatic.

Bymarlbank4 July 2026
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Welcome note

Thanks for visiting. Not opening time just yet. But what's next, you may well wonder beyond a bit of a recce to see Banjo Paddy playing to dancers down the alley locally very possibly. Look out for the podcast on Monday - lives return in September. Sunday listening is a very decent new number ever so wisely interpreted from Cambridge scene singer the highly more-ish Myles Sanko, 'Slow Down.' SG

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Track of the year in 2026

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.

"You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand" - Bob Dylan

Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their elementKurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their element28 August 2026marlbank
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Track choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr - Amazing GraceTrack choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr - Amazing Grace24 August 2026marlbank

"It took me years to write, will you take a look?" - Paul McCartney

  • Carla Bley classic Lawns streams drawn from Andy Sheppard trio’s Salt Catchers
  • Punkt. Vrt. Plastik, Kompress, Intakt ****
  • Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their element
  • The sound of Tony Bennett and Bill Evans touched upon by Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson and Marc Copland
  • What’s on

“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later” - Miles Davis

Live: Count Basie Orchestra directed by Scotty Barnhart feat. Gunhild Carling, Ronnie Scott’s, Soho ****

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