and, be warned, next year promises to be a bumper year in both quality and quantity! Best wishes The Jazz In Britain Team (John & Pete)

Jazz In Britain is taking a short break and won't be shipping out any orders this week. We will start shipping again on Monday, 2 November. As always, thanks for your brilliant support over what is now 7 years of our operation...

Zephir, from Keith Tippett & Roberto Ottaviano's Communion album, is the centrepiece in this week's Peter Badore's Other Aspects show on Wayo FM based out of Rochester, NY: wayofm.org/node/18552?fbclid…

He combines a relentless and committed search for narrative, facts and unknown recordings of the postwar jazz decades, with a way of writing which is gripping and full of insight about his subjects... morningstaronline.co.uk/arti… #morningstaronline

Further Shadows: Essays on British Modern Jazz 1950-1975 Simon Spillett, Jazz in Britain, £25 (including double CD) THERE are few true jazz scholars around, but one of them is certainly the scrupulous and eloquent Simon Spillett.

Extensive review of Communion by Keith Tippett & Roberto Ottaviano, by '53rob', at Tracce di Jazz posted yesterday. English translation : facebook.com/jazzinbritain traccedijazz.com/2026/10/21/…

(the 60th anniversary of his passing). Oh, and I don’t think we’ve properly revealed yet that Jazz In Britain will be publishing a biography of Paul Dunmall next year as well!

John Thurlow, Paul Dunmall, Tony Dudley-Evans (TDE) and Pete Woodman) The September Birmingham concert was jointly presented by TDE Promotions with Jazz In Britain and we had a meeting after the mixing session to discuss plans for another Trane celebration concert for next year

Owston and Miles Levin), playing new compositions of Paul’s, recorded the day after the Coltrane concert. Here is the 'production team' this afternoon at Sansom Studios, where we mixed the Live Meditations album, and which is where the quartet album was recorded… Olly Sansom,

will be releasing two albums of NEW MUSIC from Paul… the first is an astonishing live performance of John Coltrane’s Meditations from the 100th Anniversary Coltrane Celebration Concert in Birmingham in late September… the second will be a quartet (Paul, Sophia Domancich, James

Big, big news… so far Jazz In Britain has released three albums in collaboration with Paul Dunmall… they’ve all been recordings from the archives ie: Mujician 'In Concerts', Tenor Tonic 'That’s Our Life' and Danny Thompson’s Whatever 'On The Road'. BUT…on the near horizon we

Jez Nelson finished his Jazz FM show yesterday with Misterioso... the peerless duet between Bobby Wellins and Stan Tracey from our recent release Spectrum: Tribute to Monk... hellorayo.co.uk/jazz-fm/show…

are there any moments of explosive intensity; rather, a technical, abstract world unfolds in a matter-of-fact manner. The sequence of tracks has also been carefully arranged. Shiro Matsuo

use of extended techniques. In the final track, a world which has perfected the expression of wabi-sabi, a piano solo solemnly plays ‘Every Time We Say Goodbye’ to bring the album to a close. The 4 tracks with Moholo (died in 2025) are club recordings from 2000. In none of them

from 1983 with Tippett (who passed away in 2020). The opening track, which runs for over 15 minutes, is a ferocious free improvisation. Stabbins’ tenor sax lets out a hysterical howl. The 4th track, depicting rain and birdsong, sees both their soprano sax and piano making full

had been friends with South African drummer Louis Moholo. He subsequently branched out into pop music, but the recordings that have now seen the light of day are duets with each of these two long-standing collaborators. 7 tracks in total. Tracks 1, 4 and 7 are studio recordings

& Louis Moholo-Moholo Jazz In Britain [UK] JIB95SCD Larry Stabbins is a saxophonist born in Bristol in 1949. He began his career in soul music and R&B, but at the age of 16 he performed alongside pianist Keith Tippett. Even before joining Brotherhood of Breath in the 1970s, he

Just in from Jazz In Britain’s correspondent in Hiroshima… Koro Ito… 'And the birds sang’ is featured in "Album Guide" section of November issue of Japanese monthly-zine ‘Record Collectors’… "Import Albums" LARRY STABBINS And The Birds Sang : Duets with Keith Tippett

· Any Keith Tippett listener should read Steve Williams 'more than just a' review of the duo album with Robert Ottaviano at UKVibe... ukvibe.org/album_reviews/kei…

Danny Thompson's Whatever "Minor Escapade" from On The Road at 1:03:20 on Bob Osborne's AAJ World of Jazz show here: allaboutjazz.com/new-music-f…