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Jazz Journal

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, I-L

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Javon Jackson, Maja Jaku, Ingrid Jensen, Julian Lage and Steve Lodder and // Editor's pick: Javon Jackson

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, E-H

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Ellas Kapell, Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Herbie Hancock and Fred Hersch // Editor's pick: Herbie Hancock

Liverpool jazz festival begins 26 February

Liverpool International Jazz Festival, founded in 2013 by Liverpool Hope University, and run by the university's Creative Campus, returns 26 February - 1 March...

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, C-D

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Luc Casares, Alexis Cole, Paul Colombo, Gabriele Comeglio and Mitch Dalton // Editor's pick: Massimiliano Cignitti
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New releases December 2025 – January 2026, A-B

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Aleph Aguiar, Susanne Alt, Judith Berkson, Steve Berndt and Pat Bianchi // Editor's pick: Aleph Aguiar

JJ 12/95: McCoy Tyner Trio featuring Michael Brecker – Infinity

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert heard Tyner and Brecker come through strongly in a session loaded with historical resonance and expectation

JJ 12/95: Steps Ahead – Vibe / Live In Tokyo 1986

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert compared Steps Ahead stadium rockers and Steps Ahead reinvented fusioneers unplugged

JJ 12/95: Pat Metheny – We Live Here

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert acknowledged the superficial blandness of the guitarist's hip-hop-driven set while noting some excellent solos
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JJ 12/95: The Brecker Brothers – Out Of The Loop / Live

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert saw the brothers' exceptional jazz soloing as an abiding factor through the vagaries of shifting style

JJ 12/85: Dave Holland Quintet – Seeds Of Time

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert heard the bassist with Steve Coleman, Kenny Wheeler and others in a set that mixed free improv, impressionism and theatricality

JJ 12/85: Stanley Jordan at Shaw Theatre, London

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw the two-handed guitar-tapping phenomenon threaten to put rhythm sections out of work

JJ 12/85: Wayne Shorter at Logan Hall, London

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw, in a band playing fusion and a hipster audience expecting bebop, the tension between modernism and the dawn of London jazz retro
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