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The tight West Country quintet featuring Nick Malcolm and Jake McMurchie played a set of hard-bop and soul-jazz originals

This was an explosion of joyful music, full of energy and creativity with a gently disciplined freedom and a seemingly endless pool of ideas.

A cracking month for the Bristol jazz scene gets going straight away with a star-spangled display of all kinds of jazz and funk fireworks

British combo featuring trumpet, alto, clarinet, piano, bass and drums essays 60s-style hard bop, free improvisation and modalism

The Festival opened in fine form at The Beacon with an all-star jazz-funk tribute to the late great saxophonist who gave the event so much.

Bristol's jazz scene welcomes back Andy Sheppard and a host of local ivory tinklers get to strut their stuff as spring finally kicks in.

After a two year wait a series of excellent Bath Jazz Weekend performances launched the new year with some hopeful sunshine.

The music's freedom let each player show their personalities at all times, giving a strong sense of their communality and individual identity

There's a definite return to form on the Bristol jazz scene as the Autumn sets in and gigs of all shapes and sizes offer their temptations.

Plenty of keyboard action, bags of brass'n'beats nights and a strong sideline in Afro-influenced music alongside a thriving jam session scene