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The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends Vol.2.
Available now to pre-order on hi-res audio download and limited edition CD.
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April 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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April 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Keeping up to date with the jazz scene 👍😎

Jazz Journal, Vol. 1 No. 6, October 1948

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JazzSky
May 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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This is absolutely fantastic 👍😎

Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band - Here’s Humph’! (1957, 10” LP)

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JazzSky
August 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Listen now: Tickety-Boo by Kenny Wheeler from the forthcoming release The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends Vol.2.
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April 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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I’ve been doing some rearranging of my books and now have one shelf of just British jazz and it’s off shoots 👍😎
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July 11, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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This is just the job 👍😎

Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen - When I Leave The World Behind

Ken and the guys recorded live in Nottingham, 1963

Fantastic stuff!

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JazzSky
July 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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New European Modern Jazz:
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Emma Rawicz / Robert Mitchell / Seb Rochford / Camille Bertault / Omasta / ROKC / Trio Ivoire / Johan Lindström / Adam Forkelid / Duboule,Tavelli,Oester / Gert-Jan Dreessen / Chaerin Im /Tino Tracanna Panorchestra / Csaba Palotai
November 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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This week's hour of European Modern Jazz features recent albums from
Makiko Hirabayashi / Bosque Sound Community / Baschnagel Group / The Exu /Alexey Kruglov / Ingi Bjarni / Clemens Kuratle Ydivide / Garn / Escanzen / Glebe / Couturier/Pifarély
www.mixcloud.com/ukjazz
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January 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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In This Episode You'll Learn

・Who Maruja are and why their music is difficult to classify
・The relationship between Maruja and Manchester's musical history
・How post-punk created space for musical experimentation

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Maruja: Defining the Threshold of Modern UK Noise-Jazz
YouTube video by Monumental Movement
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August 31, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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This is absolutely superb 👍😎

Ben Crosland Quintet with Alan Skidmore - The Northern Run (1995)

Can’t recommend this enough!

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Jazzsky
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Needed cheering up, so treated myself to this…

Stan Tracey - In Person… (1967)

Just Stan and a piano, an absolutely beautiful album (and almost mint) 👍😎

Retail therapy is great!

Only one more Stan Tracey album to find!

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JazzSky
July 1, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Starting the day with…

The Sandy Brown Quintet - Splanky (1980)

Recorded live at the Gallery Club, Nottingham, March 1966

Absolutely fantastic 👍😎

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JazzSky
March 29, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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This is fantastic 👍😎

Unissued On 78s: Hot Dance Music And Jazz From Britain 1923-1936

Hot jazz on a hot night!

Absolutely impossible to keep still while this is playing!

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JazzSky
June 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This is fantastic 👍😎

Chris Barber’s Jazz Band - In Barber’s Chair (2003)

Made up of four EPs and some bonus tracks, recorded 1960-1962

Marvellous stuff!

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JazzSky
May 5, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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This is every kind of wonderful 👍😎

The Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet - Mirage (2026)

Recorded live at the BBC 1969. Absolutely incredible!

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JazzSky
March 14, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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An hour of recent European Modern Jazz now at mixcloud.com/ukjazz.
Yazz Ahmed / KOVÁSZ / Marcin Masecki / Simon Jermyn / Michael Buckley / Thomas Backman / Marius Neset / Knats / Landæus-de Heney-Osgood / Josephine Davis / Andreas Schaerer / Hans Hulbækmo and Egil Kalman / Anouar Brahem / Jon Balke
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March 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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This is absolutely superb!

Phil Seamen Meets Eddie Gomez (2025 reissue of 1968 LP)

Phil Seamen, Eddie Gomez and Tony Lee creating magical soundscapes!

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JazzSky
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Easing into the day with…

Shake Keane - That’s The Noise (1967)

This is absolutely beautiful! Jazz covers of pop songs can go horribly wrong but not here.

Very mellow, very groovy and cool 👍😎

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JazzSky
May 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Listen again: Modern Jazz from around Europe / 18th January 2026

Playing tracks by Tres Pantalons, stefano boggiani, Kristof Bacso Triad, Amaury Faye Nolan Quartet, TOIY and more.

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January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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This is absolutely incredible 👍😎

The New Jazz Orchestra - Western Reunion London 1965 (2021 reissue)

The debut Lp by possibly the greatest jazz big band of the 1960s, live at Decca’s studios March 14, 1965.

Phenomenal stuff!!!

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JazzSky
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Couriers of harmony: the golden age of British jazz
Ronnie Scott, Stan Tracey, Phil Collins… BEN FINLAY introduces the ten best British jazz albums of the 1960s and 70s.
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May 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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This is fantastic 👍😎

Presenting… The Best Of The British Jazz Groups (2002)

A superb collection of British jazz recorded 1935-50. Marvellous stuff!

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JazzSky
July 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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This is superb 👍😎

Roland Kirk Live At Ronnie Scott’s 1963

Roland Kirk backed by the Stan Tracey Trio (Stan, Malcolm Cecil & Ronnie Stephenson), 13th October 1963

Japanese replica LP packaging with obi strip and Japanese & English insert.

Marvellous stuff!

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JazzSky
July 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM