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Matty Bannond
Matty Bannond is a 40-year-old fiction author and music journalist. His debut novel, Cutting Contest, was published in 2025. Matty regularly contributes to publications around the globe including The New York City Jazz Record, Jazz Journal, All About Jazz, Hot House Jazz Guide and Free Jazz Collective. He grew up in Stockport and now lives in Hilden, near Düsseldorf. Instagram: bannond_m
Flying Pooka!: The Ecstasy Of Becoming
Saxophone-voice and piano duo take the reflective, exploratory route, manifest in tiptoeing, rubato, now consonant, now dissonant lines
Sasha Berliner: Sasha Berliner and Tabula Rasa
Californian rock drummer turned vibist plays self-penned, pulsing but harmonically abstract jazz with a quartet including guitar and trombone
PESH: Peshish
Polish-Norwegian quartet produces dark avant-garde composition and improvisation that seems rooted in the departures of the 1960s and 70s
Emily Kuhn: Ghosts Of Us
Chicago trumpeter Kuhn and quintet play originals largely born of 1960s-70s post-bop and modal style but with a later guitar sound
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Fractus: Fractus
A Greek, five Scots, one German and an Englishman walk into a recording studio and set in motion Keats' idea that beauty is truth
Bleckmann, Olatuja, Tepfer, Hajdu: The Parsonage
Tales of a once bohemian now gentrified New York house worth $18m are told in theatrical style backed by orchestrations with hints of jazz
Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place
Tense, tumultuous set from the German-born saxophonist depicts the opposite of its title; her sextet includes Michael Formanek and Tom Rainey
William Carn: Choices
Canadian trombonist produces fusion-oriented music often recalling the harmonies, melodies and timbres of Weather Report and Frank Zappa
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Hailey Brinnel: Beautiful Tomorrow
Philly-based trombonist and singer gives spirited renditions of originals and standards including Donald Fagen's Walk Between Raindrops
Hexabit: Unrulers
Swedish sextet temper what was invoiced as a cacophonous and experimental set with fast-acting injections of musicality and steel guitar
Emma Rawicz: Incantation
Impressive reminders of 80s hard-bop and fusion spring from the debut album of the young sax virtuoso and BBC Young Jazz finalist
Kate Hamann: Momentary Beauty
Twenty-three-year-old Miami-based trumpet profesora leads a band of excellent soloists in a Latin-flavoured post-bop programme
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