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What's with captioning in @thetimes today? Peter Green illustrated with an Eric Clapton caption and Justin Hayward mis-identified as John Lodge (in the latter's obit!). Did they farm it out to the classical dept?

Something on @Nigethejazzer's new record and ongoing tour of grassroots jazz venues. Catch him if you can: robtryan.com/2025/09/23/org…

Caught @joestilgoe 's The Entertainers show @WiltonMusicHall last night. Fantastic evening, great band, bracingly clever songs, knock-out singer Lucy-Anne Daniels, fun and games with the great Joe Webb on piano. Two more nights to run, go if you can, very limited tickets left..

New column with Chiminyo @officialronnies and albums from Georgia Mancio, Fini Bearman and @sandramaelux at 606 @606club.

'Minute' from the forthcoming Separate Entities EP is out this coming Friday. Pre-Save here. neilcowleytrio.lnk.to/minute #neilcowleytrio #entity

A quick rehearsal blast of Sing, Sing, Sing with Guy Barker and Giacomo Smith. Just one of the 20s and 30s goodies on the way on 10 April NCH when we celebrate exactly 100 years since the publication of The Great Gatsby!

Equinox Jazz Quintet new CD, new home for jazz at the Parakeet (Bull and Gate near The Forum), Emily Masser @SpiceOfLifeSoho and the great Maria Schneider @BarbicanCentre all in new column: camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/late-b…

March 20th @officialronnies ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/jo… 🙂🙂🙂

The Garibaldi in Northampton is a special place. Northampton itself isn’t exactly awash with money and the work the team are doing there is utterly invaluable. Please consider chucking a few quid in to this fundraiser to keep this place alive. Thanks. gofundme.com/f/continue-the…

Tom Sochas and his incredible Trio return to PizzaExpress Live Soho on 25 February premiering music from their latest album, 'Facing North'. This show will be accompanied by mountain related projections and animations. Tickets are available below. 🔗 👇 pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/tom-s…

"I love Jazz in the Round events and it’s so nice to be able to work together on this exciting line up. It’ll be a great evening in one of the loveliest intimate music venues around!" - Grace Pitkin, Serious 📆 Monday 24 February @cockpittheatre 🎟️ jazzintheround.co.uk

A piece in @NewJournal about going to @officialronnies to donate my flugelhorn. To a good cause. camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/giving…

A Blue Moment piece on Empirical and others at Monday's Jazz in the Round, the most intimate of environments for listening to live jazz: thebluemoment.com/2025/01/29/mon…

My new album WEIRDO is coming out on April 25th on Brownswood Recordings / Parlophone Records!  Pre-order available NOW with Limited edition coloured vinyls and CDs and even T-shirts in some bundles and stuff.  emmajeanthackray.com

Jazz in Glasgow: a week tonight, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, with a top team of musician-composers, brings Nu-Age Sounds: Planet World to the Old Fruitmarket tickets.glasgowlife.org.uk/overview/33942…

In which eight people who care a lot about Bob Dylan (including me) accept the Guardian’s invitation to say what they think about A Complete Unknown: theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/…

Thank you Stephen Graham for flagging up the new Sultan Stevenson / @EditionRecords album marlbank.net/2025/01/11/uns…

Great review of The Complete Spontaneous Event in the January edition of the Beat Magazine... thanks Russell Newmark... Subscribe here: beat-magazine.co.uk

My latest review for UK Jazz News (@LondonJazz). Nordsnø Ensemble feat Kit Downes. This is a properly intriguing proposition, brining together contemporary jazz, Scandinavian folk tradition and Downes on a church organ! Great stuff. ukjazznews.com/nordsno-ensemb…