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Mario Biondi, Courtney Pine, Martin Taylor and more booked to play Glasgow Jazzfest in June.

Fergus McCreadie wins big at the Jazz FM awards

A chance to sample a range of top new Dutch jazz talent is an attractive opportunity this summer in Edinburgh.

The Newbridge festival in March books one of Ireland's biggest jazz stars for its annual Kildare jazz gathering. Highlights include an appearance by said icon of the scene Michael Buckley and his Quartet, Origin Story and the quintet of Venezuelan guitarist Orlando Molina. Buckley delivered one of his best albums in years recently, the formidable Ebb and Flow.

The tender side of classic David Bowie songs inhabited extremely convincingly on a new EP.

Up for awards at this April's Jazz FM awards ceremony.

Lots of dates sprinkled throughout the year.

I like the latest tracks from Peter Somuah far more than 2023’s Letter to the Universe.

Club highlights across Europe

Recorded at the Gateway studio in Kingston, south west London, Kenny Wheeler biographer Nick Smart pins the 1995 What Was session down to taking place a short time before Wheeler's classic Angel Song. "On What Was," Smart says, "we hear Kenny at 65 years old and still at the height of his musical powers."

A look around the Europe jazz clubs at a range of great action coming up.

The Grammys continue to neglect the sheer quality of jazz issued beyond America. releases that often eclipse the homegrown product for quality and imagination.

The releases notably mark the challenging return of they-might-be-giants, Brass Mask.

A strong GB jazz presence plus the appearance of a Belgian act signed to an English label form part of the programme.

Fed up with annoying radio chit chat in English from the more smashy and nicey type smoothie voices on the BBC and Jazz FM between songs? Now you can blot all that out by listening to Germans cue up the records. In German! More seriously what a great new sounding station from Berlin just started that seems very much in the mould of London’s breakfast and drive time loving Jazz FM.

The newly in operation Dock Street Jazz Club at the American Bar in Belfast has a great line-up coming up.

Lots of delights guaranteed down in Limerick at the jazz this autumn as some leading stars of the music descend on Shannonside.