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North's youngsters team up for all that jazz

A MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Award-nominated musician is aiming to inspire the next generation of talent through the formation of the first-ever junior improvisational …

Music • 02 Mar

Violinist Dominic Ingham (centre) and his Role Models band - exhilarating and worth repeated spins...

Album review: Dominic Ingham Role Models

It's a brave man who launches his violin-led jazz album. But then again, it's brave man who releases any jazz album and Dominic Ingham's debut …

Features • 11 Aug 20

Wolfgang Muthspiel, Austrian visionary on six strings

Album review: Angular Blues - Muthspiel, Colley, Blade

The prolific Austrian guitarist, Wolfgang Muthspiel (born 1965) returns with his third album for ECM in three years, recorded with an organic-sounding, close-knit ensemble comprising …

Music Reviews • 10 Jun 20

Ferenc Snétberger: formal elegance and free form escapism

Ferenc Snétberger - Titok

We are so used to nylon string guitar work that looks to the Spanish tradition that anything outside of it almost comes as a surprise.Hungarian …

Reviews • 13 Jul 17

Bill Evans: A lost session now comes to light from out of the Black Forest

Bill Evans – Some Other Time

On these Black Forest sessions recorded on June 20, 1968, Bill Evans is on top form on his Steinway joined by his accompanists, bassist Eddie …

Music Reviews • 24 May 16

Uncompromisingly deep-delving but dazzling too: Pérez Patitucci Blade

Pérez Patitucci Blade - Children of the Light

Intended in part as a thank you gift to Wayne Shorter with whom the trio three spent over ten years in the master saxophonist's quartet, …

Music Reviews • 29 Sep 15

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