Jazz In Britain

"This is a great book that is fervently written, with love, deep knowledge and the feeling that jazz has much to teach a troubled world. I can’t think of a writer on jazz who has the range of references that you find in these pages." jazzviews.net/global-groove-…

Happy birthday to the blessed Mrs Bax. Have a great dat darling x

Wonderful review of a wonderful album... freejazzblog.org/2026/03/evan-p…

“The Longest Day” from the John Taylor with Stan Sulzmann and the Rundfunkorchester Hannover des NDR album 'Quintessence', included in the playlist for Bob Osborne's Different Noises show at the weekend. Features at 41:47. bobosborne.substack.com/p/new-music-fr…

This review of 'Global Groove' is a good read in its own right... internationaltimes.it/get-into-the-g…

The Friday Red Wine Three: Track one : 'Beautiful Lola, Flower Of The North' - Zbigniew Namysłowski Modern Jazz Quartet - youtube.com/watch?v=OzvG4y…

"The sadness is that Taylor did not live to write more music of this quality and in this vein — to push further still at the boundaries of jazz and deepen his own remarkable compositional voice." Jack Kenny's review over at Jazz Views: jazzviews.net/john-taylor-wi…

Chris Searle reviews a Rahsaan Roland Kirk discovery on Resonance, a Gordon Beck Jazz In Britain discovery, and new music on Discus... three great labels all doing great work... morningstaronline.co.uk/article/jazz-a…

@SgtWilkoHQ Thanks Michael

@BritainJazz This is great news. Thanks for all the hard work that goes into making these releases possible.

How about this year, we add to this oeuvre by releasing albums by: Alan Skidmore’s Tenor Tonic Stan Tracey’s Spectrum** Harry Beckett’s S & R Powerhouse Sections*** *okay, they did release am album but only on tape cassette

The Friday Red Wine Three : Track Two : Dave Mackay and Vicky Hamilton 'Blues For Hari' - youtube.com/watch?v=tIxyzE…

and we’re not going to pass on a chance to release an album by Harry!

**okay, they also released an album but it was only on vinyl and that was quickly deleted ***okay again, they did release an album (Themes for Fega) on vinyl and that was reissued on CD (by Vocalion) but it’s very hard to come by now and anyway this is a killer session

Jazz In Britain has released CDs from bands that never released an album… but rehearsed, gigged and did radio sessions… and should have made albums… but didn’t… namely: Henry Lowther’s Quarternity Trevor Tomkins’ Sextant Gordon Beck’s Gyroscope* Tony Coe’s Axel

A Brixton Boy done good... 'Our two hunky story tellers throw open the doors to his enormous wardrobe and give the low down on its sartorial heroes.' youtube.com/watch?v=BqYu57…

Read Mike Gates complete review of this remarkable album at UK Vibe:

from one of Britain’s greatest jazz composers and pianists, captured at a creative peak. “Quintessence” is exactly what its title promises: the purest essence of John Taylor’s orchestral imagination, brought gloriously to life.

Rundfunkof and now finally released, nearly four decades later. It is, without exaggeration, a stunning release. ... Beautifully packaged, sensitively remastered, and historically significant, this is far from being merely an archival curiosity. It is a major artistic statement

There is something profoundly moving about hearing lost music return to the light. “Quintessence”, the newly issued collaboration between John Taylor and Stan Sulzmann, is exactly that kind of rediscovery: a major statement from 1987, preserved in the archives of Norddeutscher