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Nigel Jarrett
Nigel Jarrett is a former newspaperman and a double prizewinner: the Rhys Davies Award for short fiction and, in 2016, the inaugural Templar Shorts award. His first story collection, Funderland, published by Parthian, was praised by the Guardian, the Independent, the Times and many others, and was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. His debut poetry collection, Miners At The Quarry Pool, also from Parthian, was described by Agenda poetry magazine as "a virtuoso performance". Jarrett's first novel, Slowly Burning (GG Books) was published in 2016, as was his second story collection, Who Killed Emil Kreisler? (Cultured Llama Publishing). Templar published his three-story pamphlet, A Gloucester Trilogy, in September 2019. In 2022, Saron Publishers brought out his latest work of long fiction, Notes From the Superhorse Stable, and his fourth story collection, Five Go To Switzerland, was published by Cockatrice Books. Gwyriad, his second poetry collection, was published by Cockatrice in March 2024. Based in Monmouthshire, Jarrett also writes for the Wales Arts Review, Arts Scene in Wales, Slightly Foxed, Acumen poetry magazine, and several others. His poetry, fiction, and essays appear widely. For many years he was a daily newspaper music critic, and now freelances in that capacity. When he can find time, he swims.
Reviewed: The Third Stream Quartet | Magnus Bakken | Hiromi | Mike Majkowski
The Third Stream Quartet: Déja Vu (Jersika Records JRA 027-001-1000)
Most of the records made by Latvian company Jersika, the jazz and improvised-music label founded...
Reviewed: Immanuel Wilkins | Dan Siegel | Jim Witzel Quartet | Max Santner
Immanuel Wilkins: Blues Blood (Blue Note CD 6555203; LP 6555204)
Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins's third album for Blue Note is a big departure for him. As...
Reviewed: Veronika Harcsa, Anastasia Razvalyaeva, Bálint Bolcsó | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Glen Manby, John Gibbon Trio | Sue McCreeth | Joe Baione
Veronika Harcsa, Anastasia Razvalyaeva, Bálint Bolcsó: Schubert Now! (BMC Records, BMC CD3298)
Jazz has often courted so-called “classical” music, initially perhaps to gain respectability by...
Jazz In The New Millennium – Live & Well
An author bold enough to decide on the most significant individuals and happenings in his zone of interest and write a book about them...
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Reviewed: MTB (Mehldau, Turner, Bernstein) | Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal
MTB: Solid Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz Criss 1423 CD)
There's an element of reassembly on this album. The MTB trio (pianist Brad Mehldau, tenor saxophonist...
Count Me In… 12/24
When Robert Johnson decided to “dust his broom” in 1936, he had embarked on what today might be described as stalking. Like a lot...
Ursula Harrison: ‘I usually avoid labelling myself as a jazz musician’
Bassist and composer Ursula Harrison, winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024, didn't have to cast widely for an influential exemplar: her mum, bassist...
Reviewed: Dusko Goykovich | Olivier Robin | Matt Panayides | Mark Masters | John-Paul Muir
All but two of the charts on Doo's Blues, the Dusko Goykovich album I review below, are by the Serbian trumpeter himself, including the...
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Reviewed: Geoffrey Keezer | Nexus | Gato Barbieri
Three partly related themes this month: the squirts of album releases from busy record labels; the number of albums recorded live at famous venues;...
Reviewed: Nigel Price & Alban Claret | Garden | Dario Miranda
Nigel Price And Alban Claret: Entente Cordiale (Elsden Music EM05)
Entente is so cordiale in this joint album by guitarists Nigel Price and Alban Claret...
Sylvain Daniel: SlyDee
French bassist leads pop-flavoured funk-rock originals including some substantial jazz trumpet solos as well as rap and other vocals
Benny Golson: Golden Standards Volume II
The tenor-saxophone luminary is heard between 1996 and 1999 with Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Mulgrew Miller, Monty Alexander and more
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