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Article: Live Review

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 ...

Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2026

Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2026

Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...

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Letters From Afar

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: New Soil
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. Yellow Greens; 2. Wishbone; 3. Eo; 4. Invisible Beasts; 5. Bright White Light; 6. Banshees; 7. 41; 8. Rio (Live At Bimhuis)

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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.

Article: Album Review

Alex Hitchcock: Letters From Afar

Read "Letters From Afar" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
December 23, 2025

Alex Hitchcock made his name as an emerging talent in London when he decided to move to New York City to, as he put it, “engage with the music being made here, because as a white British musician playing Black American music, engaging with the context in which that music is made is important." Letters from Afar ...

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Precipice

By Idris Rahman

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Jellyfish; Don't Be Sad (It's Too Late); Vespa Crabro; Linus With The Sick Burn; And Then There Were Three; Katabatic; Black Lacquer; Kintsugi; Solenopsis; Alpenglow.

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City Swamp

By Jake Long

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ideological Rubble; Celestial Soup; Swamp; Silhouette.

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Cadair Idris

By Amy Clark

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Euwn i mi; Idris; Unsettled; Rhyd; Ionawr; Cynefin; If I Fall; Zorny; Upon Leaving The Dream.

Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Chris May
December 3, 2024

In case you missed the sad news, our dear friend and compatriot, Chris May, passed away in November (read our tribute). Below are the albums he considered extraordinary in 2024--a final testament to his discerning taste and love of sound. -mR Rob LuftDahab Days Edition Records