Editor's Choice: May 2025 | The best new jazz albums
- Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Featuring new albums from Fini Bearman, Bugge Wesseltoft, Georgia Mancio, Janette Mason and more
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Editor's Choice: May 2025 | The best new jazz albums
Featuring new albums from Fini Bearman, Bugge Wesseltoft, Georgia Mancio, Janette Mason and more
Editor's Choice: April 2025 | The best new jazz albums
Outstanding new releases from Anouar Brahem, Sasha Berliner, Branford Marsalis Quartet and more
Dub against Dystopia | Interview with Joe Armon-Jones
As a member of Ezra Collective, Joe Armon-Jones has won the Mercury Music Prize, played Wembley Arena – and won a Brit Award. Alongside this his solo career is blossoming as well, with a two-part new album, All The Quiet, and a headline slot at...
Tal Farlow: Lord of the strings
Stuart Nicholson looks back at the career of that most underrated of jazz guitar masters, Tal Farlow, who often preferred fishing to soaking up the limelight
A passion for the Parabola | Cheltenham Jazz Festival
This year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival sees some forward-looking moves taking place in the Parabola Arts Centre’s line-up, Ammar Kalia spoke to its new programmer Alex Carr to find out more
The Man with the Horn | Interview with Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard was often buffeted by the fickle winds of financial necessity and musical fashion, but at his best he was one of the finest trumpeters in jazz
Turning Point | Interview with Janette Mason
British pianist and composer Janette Mason was won over by the Pat Metheney Group’s ECM debut when she was a teenager. She tells Brian Glasser abourt how it shaped her musical life
Free to the Core | Interview with James Brandon Lewis
Brooklyn-based saxophonist has been forging a reputation for working across multiple projects with a fearsome intensity, be it his rock-fueled group. The Messthetics, his Jesup Wagon band or his Red Lily Quintet
Quiet rise of UK jazz's Renaissance woman
Ursula Harrison won last year’s BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year, bringing this Welsh native’s talents to wider public attention. Victoria Kingham discovers how the bassist’s blending of genres and extensive studies shape her forward-thinking...