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Jody Sternberg, Sea of Love, Bonsaï Music ***1/2

Likeable lounge jazz

Bymarlbank9 June 2026
Reviews

Ron Carter, Yotam Silberstein, Duets, Jojo ****1/2

A whole lotta love

Bymarlbank9 June 2026
marlbank | diary | sloane square | london
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Road trip notes – Diary entries

“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can...

Bymarlbank8 June 2026
Believe themed playlist | marlbank
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BELIEVE, beleft, below playlist themed

Gems from John Coltrane, EST, Pat Metheny, Kenny Dorham, Bill Evans and Tony Bennett & more won’t make you feel at all bereft MORE FROM...

Bymarlbank8 June 2026
Album of the WeekReviews

Trish Clowes, Try Me, Stoney Lane **** recommended

Two buses have arrived at once this year where saxophonist Trish Clowes is concerned. Both go somewhere interesting.

Bymarlbank8 June 2026
Immy Churchill | Vortex | 5 June 2026
Live reviews

Immy Churchill, Songs That Shaped Me, Vortex Downstairs ****

A rising vocals star finds her own path

Bymarlbank6 June 2026
Evan Parker and Tom Challenger | marlbank news story
News

“It’s about the exchange”: Tom Challenger and Evan Parker unite

An exciting summit meeting is readying for the summer that unites Evan Parker and Tom Challenger

Bymarlbank5 June 2026
Reviews

Anthony Joseph, The Ark, Heavenly Sweetness ****

Another strong showing from London scene British Trinidadian poet, vocalist, singer-songwriter Anthony Joseph and his kicking band

Bymarlbank5 June 2026
Live reviews

Marvin Muoneké, Mark Lockheart, Gary Crosby, Alex Webb and Winston Clifford – Cadogan Hall **** recommended

A lunchtime appointment themed around the timelessness of Coltrane and Hartman proves charming and thoughtfully spun in Chelsea.

Bymarlbank4 June 2026
Live reviews

Andrea Di Biase’s Oltremare, Vortex ***1/2

Persuasive originals win the day.

Bymarlbank4 June 2026
News

Looking ahead to the 2026 London Jazz Festival

More on this year's London Jazz Festival

Bymarlbank3 June 2026
Dylan Jones
News

Dylan Jones to debut

London trumpeter Dylan Jones to release debut album Statue on 26 June via Banger Factory Records, with new single Plastic Petals out 12 June.

Bymarlbank2 June 2026
Marianne McGregor photo: The Write Angle
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Glasgow jazz 40th

A landmark festival of international clout clocks up 40 years

Bymarlbank2 June 2026
News

Tomorrow’s Warriors and Bank of America

Deal sealed that signals corporate support for the Tomorrow's Warriors big band.

Bymarlbank2 June 2026
tues 23 sep 25 marlbank playlist
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Bymarlbank1 June 2026
Kat Eaton
Reviews

Kat Eaton, What Happens Now, Reason and Rhyme ***1/2

Spolit for choice there's so much here - Kat Eaton delivers

Bymarlbank1 June 2026
Album of the WeekReviews

Johanna Summer, Dialoge, ACT ****

A series of remarkable classically inspired two piano encounters prove full of grace. There's a remarkable sense of uncrowded poise and stillness to everything achieved...

Bymarlbank1 June 2026
Afraid to Speak | cover art | Paul Dunmall
Reviews

Paul Dunmall, Afraid to Speak, Discus Music **** recommended

There are lots of layers to this tender, edgy in places, gem from English free-jazz veteran saxist Paul Dunmall

Bymarlbank31 May 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
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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