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Jeanie Barton

Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham. 11 May 2023

This night was a pleasure to behold and brought together friends from all corners of University of Nottingham music lecturer, writer and performer Simon Paterson’s life. Paterson is double bassist in the house band of popular, Parliamentary Award-winning Nottingham jazz [...]

“The Jazz”, which takes place downstairs at the King’s Head in Crouch End on Sunday afternoons, is going through a tricky transition. There are contact details (a Facebook group and an email address) at the foot of this piece for [...]

Out of the Cave, available on Bandcamp, features a number of cats with a cool jive. Zoophyte is a song-writing project by vocalist Peter Jones and producer Trevor Lever. They released the album Signs of Life last year and this [...]

This eclectic album opens with an unaccompanied, stripped back rendition of Cherokee from Ed Benstead (flugelhorn) and Vasilis Xenopoulos on tenor saxophone. Together they display the finest of chops; a duo of titans who weave and chase one another with [...]

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