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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...

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...

Bymarlbank22 June 2026
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 he...

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
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Rolling - today's playlist is "wheel" themed. The common weal. A certain circle in the round - give it a spin

Live review: Nathan Carter, London Palladium, Soho ****

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Stephen began writing reviews for Turkish Daily News while living in Ankara in the early 1990s. Following a move to Poland, he worked as assistant editor on the English edition of Jazz Forum. In London where he lived for more than 25 years, he began a job as assistant editor at the Islington and later Mayfair based Jazz on CD, where he worked from 1993 to 1995. In Streatham, he became founder editor of Jazzwise in 1997, and worked there on staff for 15 years. His interview features have appeared in a range of publications including Jazz Express, The Wire, The Independent, Maxim and Downbeat. He has interviewed many leading figures in the jazz and broader music world including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Carmen Lundy, Grover Washington Jr, Marc Johnson, Charlie Watts, Jools Holland, Betty Carter, Colin Towns, Tomasz Stańko, Jack DeJohnette, Phil Collins, Nigel Kennedy, John Abercrombie, Christian McBride, Branford Marsalis, Courtney Pine, Steve Williamson, Lady Blackbird, Gary Crosby, Ian Shaw, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Wynton Marsalis, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Monty Alexander, Kandace Springs, Somi, Lionel Loueke and new stars like James Francies and Immanuel Wilkins to name just a few. Radio work has included voiced and scripted features for BBC Radio 3. In recent years work has been hard to come by on the dark end of the street on the road to nowhere. But Marlbank always keeps the dream alive.

Roam on! The light
we sought is shining still

- Matthew Arnold, 'Thyrsis' (1866)

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