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

Zak Irvine – Finding My Voice

Mentored by Scott Flanigan, encouraged by Linley Hamilton, inspired by Robert Glasper, superlative new Northern Ireland jazz talent Zak Irvine describes how...

Bymarlbank22 June 2026
Rapport and a warm respectfulness conveyed in some choice material: Mick Goodrick and Fred Hersch | marlbank
Album of the WeekReviews

Mick Goodrick and Fred Hersch, Feebles, Fables & Ferns, ECM ****

A one off from the 1980s released for the first time.

Bymarlbank22 June 2026
Jaz Keyser | Hackney Wick appearance this autumn
News

Jas Kayser paying tribute to Tony Allen and Cassie Kinoshi at a ramped up Hackney Wick

Autumn happening coming together in east London

Bymarlbank20 June 2026
Gary Bartz and Your Brother's Keeper | marlbank review
Reviews

Your Brother’s Keeper, Gary Bartz, Where Rivers Meet, Brownswood Recordings ★★★★☆ recommended

A groundbreaking meeting of minds music of the spheres

Bymarlbank19 June 2026
Reviews

Moyses Dos Santos’ Maria

Positivity personified

Bymarlbank18 June 2026
Emil Brandqvist Broadens the Palette on Three Songs – Part IV
Featured

Essential from Emil Brandqvist

Current essential Eurojazz listening for a Wednesday.

Bymarlbank16 June 2026
Helen Sung Big Band photo Anna Yatskevich
Reviews

Helen Sung Big Band, Oracles, Sunnyside **** recommended

Big bands haven't gone away, you know

Bymarlbank16 June 2026
News

Giant of jazz Abdullah Ibrahim whose sound moved the world has died

Abdullah Ibrahim has died in Germany aged 91

Bymarlbank15 June 2026
Black-and-white promotional photograph of the jazz trio featuring Irène Schweizer, George Mraz, and Pierre Favre in 1968.
News

Previously Unheard 1968 Pierre Favre Trio Recording to Receive First-Ever Release

Vintage free-jazz uncorked

Bymarlbank15 June 2026
News

What’s on this week – highlights include Lakecia Benjamin, Cory Wong and Harry Diplock

Stepping out

Bymarlbank15 June 2026
Carsten Dahl Trio | marlbank review
Album of the WeekReviews

Carsten Dahl, Komponistens Suite, Musique Phénoménale ****

Three as 1

Bymarlbank15 June 2026
Eleonora Strino | marlbank review
Reviews

Eleonora Strino, Lumithia, CAM JAZZ **** recommended

Guitar heaven from Eleonora Strino playing solo and mainly her own tunes. There's also a gem of a vocal on her reading of 'Alfonsina y...

Bymarlbank14 June 2026
nightlife on busy london street with bar
This just in

This week’s podcast

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Bymarlbank14 June 2026
Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson photo Nicholas Albrecht
Reviews

Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings, Nonesuch ***1/2

Spare and haunting, there's an elegiac sense to this new collaboration between two leading American experimentalists.

Bymarlbank14 June 2026
News

Bluey awarded an MBE

Jean-Paul Maunick, known as Bluey, longtime band leader of Incognito, has been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours. Long time regulars at Ronnie...

Bymarlbank13 June 2026
Zoe Rahman | summer 2026 album
News

Zoe Rahman to Release Hull Suite Live

'Synergy' from the trio album streams and there's a Vortex show on release day

Bymarlbank12 June 2026
library shelves filled with books
Think piece

It’s the work, not the label

Thoughts on how you get your new music out there when there are so many possibilities. One size doesn't fit all

Bymarlbank11 June 2026
Track choice

Track of the Week: Illumination

Formidable this from drummer Cindy Blackman Santana’s upcoming Coherence. The full album includes guest spots by her husband latin jazz rock icon Carlos Santana and,...

Bymarlbank10 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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