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Laura Jurd

Laura Jurd is a trumpet player, composer and improviser from the UK. A recipient of multiple awards and a BBC New Generation Artist from 2015-2017, Laura has developed a formidable reputation as one of the most distinctive and creative composer-performers to emerge from the UK in recent years.

Performing regularly throughout the UK and Europe, she leads the 2017 Mercury-nominated band Dinosaur who have performed at North Sea, Montreal and Molde International Jazz festivals to name a few. A highly active composer, Laura's is equally at home writing for contemporary chamber groups and orchestras as she is writing for jazz ensembles and improvising musicians

Riversphere, Vol. 1

By Iain Ballamy

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2026
Track listing: Harmonique; Unresolved; Chimerical; Strange Meeting; One for All; Retrato em branco e preto; Green in Blue; Lost Souls; Olha Maria; As Time Passes.

Michael Eckroth, Alice Coltrane, and Jack Bruce

by Jerome Wilson
September 23, 2026

This episode includes many different strands of modern jazz, from the sophisticated jazz-rock of Michael Eckroth and Jack Bruce to the spiritual explorations of Alice Coltrane and Simon Moullier.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 John ...

Clark Tracey, Laura Jurd, Eyolf Dale, And More

by Colin Muirhead
June 27, 2026

Colin Muirhead talks with saxophonist Jamie Toms about the upcoming Newcastle Jazz Festival, with tracks by festival acts including Clark Tracey, the Alexia Gardner Quintet, and Laura Jurd. Plus music by Archipelago, Eyolf Dale, Gretchen Parlato, and more. Playlist Clark Tracey “Matrix" from The Jazz Champions (Stray Horn Records) 0:00 OUTRI feat. Phil Richardson ...

Glorious Assembly Jazz Orchestra: Glorious Assembly

by Mark McKergow
June 6, 2026

The Glorious Assembly Jazz Orchestra is the creation of Emmy Award-winning film composer David Mitcham . After a career writing music for the screen, often with jazz undertones, Mitcham has chosen to expand his ambitions by directing a full-on extended big band playing new compositions on Glorious Assembly. The 20- piece group features some of the UK's ...

Audrey Ochoa, Mary Lou Williams, and Michael Garrick

by Jerome Wilson
April 8, 2026

This eclectic episode features recent music from Audrey Ochoa and Charles Chen as well as older work by Mary Lou Williams and Michael Garrick.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Steven Bernstein “Lucky" from Diaspora Blues ...

Javon Jackson, Jack McDuff, and Brian Landrus

by Jerome Wilson
March 25, 2026

This episode features new music from Javon Jackson and Brian Landrus as well as older music by Tom Skinner and Brother Jack McDuff. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Laura Jurd “Pirates" from Human Spirit ...

Brilliant Corners 2026

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2026

Brilliant Corners 2026Black Box/Various VenuesBelfast, N. IrelandFebruary 27-March 7, 2026 Few events signpost the time of year quite like a city's flagship contemporary music festival. For one week every March, as winter gradually recedes, Belfast's aptly named Brilliant Corners illuminates jazz--and jazz-adjacent music--in many of its myriad forms. Inevitably, some of the more outré ...

Rites & Revelations

By Laura Jurd

Label: New Soil
Released: 2025
Track listing: Offering; Step Up To The Altar; Praying Mantis; Lighter & Brighter; Life; You Again; St James Infirmary; Bide Your Time; What Are You Running Towards?; Back To Life.

Glorious Assembly

By David Mitcham

Label: Manor Barn Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Autumn Of Our Days; Winter Settling In My Heart; Tom Wallager; Tidal Flow; A Kairos (In Blue); Gold In The Depths; Bop Canon.