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Miles Smiles Featuring Wallace Roney - Ronnie Scott's

Widely considered the 20th century’s most influential jazz musician, Miles Davis was at the forefront of the development of the American jazz music tradition. As a bandleader, Davis garnered and mentored some of the most prominent musicians of the 20th

China Moses: Live - Ronnie Scott's

Releasing her first album when she was 16, it was clear from a young age that China Moses was a gifted singer. Now celebrating the release of her latest album Crazy Blues, she performs live at Ronnie Scott's.

The Apples: Live - Jazz Cafe

The Apples arrive at the Jazz Cafe to perform their signature live explosion that thrills audiences everywhere. The arrangement of every track they perform on stage is completely improvised and the roles of each person change extremely quickly.

At Home - George Shearing

This duo recording by the renowned jazz pianist George Shearing and his regular collaborator, the bassist Don Thompson, lay hidden away in a drawer for almost thirty years. When Thompson listened again to the recording shortly after Sir George Shearing's

In Full View - Julia Hulsmann Quartet

After two acclaimed trio albums (The End of a Summer and Imprint), pianist Julia Hülsmann proposes a different project for her third ECM release In Full View, motivated initially by a performance by Berlin-based, English trumpet and flugelhorn player Tom

George Shearing: At Home - review

(Jazzknight) This lovely album by the late Sir George Shearing could easily have vanished without trace. It was recorded, "just for fun", over a couple of afternoons in 1983, in Shearing's New York apartment. The only other musician involved was bassis

Ballads - Liane Carroll

After the Multi-award winning success of 'Up And Down' Liane returns with stunning new album 'Ballads'. 'Ballads', reunites her with Multi-Grammy nominated producer and trumpeter James McMillan, who also produced 2011's critically acclaimed 'Up and Down'.

Joe Stilgoe: Live - Purcell Room, Southbank Centre

Sharp suit, lightning wit, dazzling piano skills and killer songs - Joe Stilgoe burst onto the scene with the release of his debut album 'I Like This One' in 2009, and in between playing in jazz clubs around the world he has been back in the studio record

Julia Hulsmann Quartet: In Full View - review

(ECM) German pianist Julia Hulsmann's playing balances the familiar and the mysterious: her timing, harmonic sense and turn of phrase all reveal a deep jazz awareness, but her spacey meditations suggest a more abstract and impressionistic contemporary mu

New Gary Burton Quartet: Guided Tour - review

(Mac Avenue) A sparky exercise in briskly virtuosic jazz from the great vibraphonist Gary Burton, updating the mix of refined blues, gliding swing, cool funk and glistening balladry he's been conjuring up since the 1970s. If this quartet isn't quite in t