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

The Alessi Brothers Are Heard In A Rare Improvisational Setting

Always of interest what Ralph Alessi is up to. Appearing with his brother is novel on this brand new release

Bymarlbank3 July 2026
Featured

Make Hays while the sun shines

Bit of a gem from the Kev

Bymarlbank1 July 2026
Playlists

Playlist thinking: Wednesday themed – Ming’s the thing and more

Thoughts on when playlists fill the gap and spur you into listening differently

Bymarlbank1 July 2026
Reviews

Hannah Marks, Feed the Fire, Endectomorph Music **** recommended

Geri Allen, Bob Hurst, Dewey Redman and Hannah Marks originals sit together very well

Bymarlbank30 June 2026
News

What’s on this week

Marvellous Marvin is back.

Bymarlbank29 June 2026
Album of the WeekReviews

Cécile McLorin Salvant Covers Cy Coleman, Stephen Sondheim & Billy Strayhorn on Her 1st Orchestral Album

A sumptuous return to form

Bymarlbank29 June 2026
Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr | marlbank article
Track choice

Track of the Week: Soon I Will Be Done – Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr

Gospel grace, poise and passion

Bymarlbank28 June 2026
News

Vibes & sax add a lot to what Little North can now deliver

Beefed up instrumentation and the Brooklyn buzz suit the Danes

Bymarlbank27 June 2026
News

Molly Johnson is back

New music from the Canadian has a late night crossover mood about it on her first album in 5 years.

Bymarlbank26 June 2026
News

Swallow winters out

Warm love in the room for Carla: '4' and '6' stand out most. Steve Swallow isn't afraid to swing.

Bymarlbank26 June 2026
Dylan Jones
Reviews

Dylan Jones, Statue, Banger Factory ***

Heartfelt trumpet - original tunes

Bymarlbank26 June 2026
Track choice

‘Azimuth’ – a tantalising Norma Winstone Maida Vale Session

A great year for Norma Winstone fans continues

Bymarlbank25 June 2026
News

Flautist Gareth Lockrane to become a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music

Fellowship for the Box of Tricks man

Bymarlbank25 June 2026
Binker Golding and Denys Baptiste to appear in Tomorrow’s Warriors’ 35th anniversary season
News

Binker Golding and Denys Baptiste to appear in Tomorrow’s Warriors’ 35th anniversary season

Tomorrow's Warriors anniversary

Bymarlbank25 June 2026
News

£1.1m awarded to University of Liverpool project mapping and developing England’s community big bands

Big grant awarded

Bymarlbank24 June 2026
John McNeil
Reviews

John McNeil Trio, There Is No Greater Love, SteepleChase ****

Dusted down from a Denmark date in the 1980s, an unheard live gem from John McNeil - who was an inspirational teacher and master of...

Bymarlbank24 June 2026
Reviews

Ben Patterson, Stretch, Origin Records ***

Earthy and passionate trombone led originals.

Bymarlbank22 June 2026
Simone Locarni and Tom Arthurs photo Piero Gatti
Reviews

Simone Locarni and Tom Arthurs, Alianti, Abeat **** recommended

Landing empathetically in the special place that is the Kenny Wheeler and John Taylor universe, this is an album introducing a new duo that wards...

Bymarlbank22 June 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

Baggy playlist

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
Top jazz albums so far in 2026Top jazz albums so far in 202623 August 2026marlbank
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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