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A Bouquet (for Lady Day)

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Day Breaks; More Than You Know; This Year's Kisses; P.S. I Love You; What a Little Moonlight Can Do; Billie's Blues; Some Other Spring; The Still of the Night; Who Wants Love? Left Alone.

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50 Years

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hello & Goodbye; You Know It Makes Sense; Mandeville; Over The Top; Bitter Suite; Body & Soul; Victor; Naima; Elegant People; My Favourite Things; Show Me The Way To Go Home; Sax No End.

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Celebrating Sir George Shearing

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Conception; Let's Live Again; From Rags to Richards; Let There Be Love; The Fourth Deuce; Easy; Night Flight; Lullaby of Birdland; Children's Waltz; Midnight Mood; Rondo.

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View from Above

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2023

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Article: Year in Review

Neil Duggan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

Read "Neil Duggan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023" reviewed by Neil Duggan


With a continual flow of interesting releases, 2023 was the gift that kept on giving. Many of these releases were forged during the pandemic, many as a result of the freedom to fully interact with other musicians again and get back to the serious business of creating and entertaining. Whatever the drivers, both up-and-coming artists and ...

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Doncaster Jazz Alumni: 50 Years

Read "50 Years" reviewed by Neil Duggan


The problem for John Ellis UK as a teacher of brass instruments in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was that there were few resources or equipment available for him to teach his students the skills they needed and take them to the level that would enable them to have a career in music. He wanted to ...

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Paul Mottram: Seven Ages Of Man

Read "Seven Ages Of Man" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Throughout history, many have tried to divide the human life cycle into defined stages. The most famous is William Shakespeare's reference to the seven ages in Jaques' speech in As You Like It, the one which starts “All the world's a stage." This was the initial spark which gave composer Paul Mottram the idea for Seven ...

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Shear Brass: Celebrating Sir George Shearing

Read "Celebrating Sir George Shearing" reviewed by Neil Duggan


The work of the late George Shearing, or Sir George Shearing OBE to give him his full title, is the subject of the debut album from Shear Brass, a band dedicated to playing new arrangements of his music. They are led by Shearing's great nephew, drummer Carl Gorham. The album, Celebrating Sir George Shearing, features eleven ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Lewandowski: A Bouquet (for Lady Day)

Read "A Bouquet (for Lady Day)" reviewed by Ian Patterson


A regular in the Mingus Big Band and Wynton Marsalis' quartet, New York-based Mark Lewandowski has won numerous awards for his sonorous double bass playing, which can be appreciated in settings as diverse as John Zorn's The Book of Beri'ah (Tzadik Records, 2018) and Joe Chamber's Dance Kobina (Blue Note Records, 2022). As a leader, Lewandowski ...

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Eddie Gripper: Home

Read "Home" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Home is the debut album from Eddie Gripper, an English pianist, composer and educator from Oxfordshire. He's now based in Cardiff, where he studied jazz at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama with Huw Warren. He has collaborated with Warren and also with Iain Ballamy, John Parricelli and Welsh folk artist Angharad Jenkins of ...


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