Jazz Articles about Sam Jesson

About Sam Jesson

Album Review

Joe Webb's Neath Beat is the work of a fascinating artist. Obsessed with both football and Britpop, Webb fuses those passions with his love for South Wales, filtering it all through the musical vocabulary of legendary piano titans like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson and Count Basie. The result is an album that not only pays tribute to those influences but also stands as a compelling and unique artistic statement on its own. You could easily describe Webb's piano ...

Album Review

Joe Webb: Hamstrings & Hurricanes

Read "Hamstrings & Hurricanes" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
October 4, 2025

Open to all musical genres from the UK and Ireland, encompassing pop, rock, folk, urban, dance, jazz, blues, electronica and classical, the Mercury Prize stands as music's equivalent to literature's Booker Prize or art's Turner Prize. Past winners span from Arctic Monkeys and PJ Harvey to Arlo Parks, representing the award's diverse scope. Jazz has rarely featured among Mercury Prize winners, with Ezra Collective's Where I'm Meant To Be (Partisan, 2022) marking a historic breakthrough as the first ...