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Van Morrison - Backseat Driver

Frustrated for years at being tagged as a rock singer, Van Morrison's new album with Hammond hero Joey DeFrancesco, You're Driving Me Crazy, finds him digging down deep into his jazz roots.

ENEMY – The Enemies Within

Django Bates acolyte Petter Eldh and UK jazz luminaries Kit Downes and James Maddren are taking no prisoners with their debut release as ENEMY.

All aboard the Blue Note at Sea jazz cruise

Jon Newey experiences the unique musical possibilities of the Blue Note at Sea jazz cruise It’s early Monday morning on 29 January and the day has dawned surprisingly clear.

Esperanza Spalding - In The Hot Seat

Esperanza Spalding has won both industry and critical acclaim for her wildly divergent work, notching up four Grammy Awards, most notably a 2011 Best New Artist Award that had the chutzpah to trounce pop idol Justin Bieber and folk-rockers Mumford & Sons.

Beats & Pieces – Let’s Dance

Celebrating a decade together this year, Mancunian big band Beats & Pieces continue to refine the parameters of expanded ensemble playing, that's as likely to include deconstructed David Bowie and Björk songs to their own heavy-riffing originals.

Kurt Elling – Questioning Times

Continuing his recent series of collaborations with Branford Marsalis, superlative US singer Kurt Elling's latest album, The Questions, sees him recast tunes originally by everyone from Carla Bley to Bob Dylan as a response to our current troubled times.

Pablo Held Trio – Watching The Detectives

One of German jazz's emerging stars, Cologne-based pianist Pablo Held has made waves with his Trio's headline-grabbing collaborations with US heavyweights John Scofield and Chris Potter, while amassing their own substantial back catalogue.

Sons Of Kemet – Karma Chameleons

Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings is poised at the vanguard of the recent renaissance in British jazz as the driving force behind disparate ensembles such as The Comet Is Coming, Shabaka & The Ancestors and Sons Of Kemet.

David Murray – Blues For Babylon

Fiery saxophonist David Murray has previously drawn on the bewitching and poignant prose of authors such as Ishmael Reed and Amiri Baraka in his music, but on his latest album, Blues For Memo, he's collaborated with hip-priest rapper-cum-poet Saul Williams.

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