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GoGo Penguin – Letting Go

Manchester’s boundary pushing have come a piano trio GoGo Penguin have come a long way since their formation in 2012, nominated for a Mercury Prize for their second album v2.

Cleveland Watkiss – Simply Said

Singer Cleveland Watkiss has been a powerful presence on the British jazz scene for the last two decades – an original member of the Jazz Warriors and renowned for his versatility and vocal range, his career has spanned work with drum’n’bass icon Goldie, opera with Julian Joseph and session work with Stevie Wonder, Björk and Bob Dylan among many others.

Gerard Presencer – Sound Travels

In 1993 the sound of Gerard Presencer’s trumpet was everywhere thanks to the huge international success of Us3’s hit single ‘Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)’: he helped bring the Blue Note sound to a new mass audience and jump-started his career in a big way.

Bill Laurance – Swamp Fever

Hackney-born keyboardist Bill Laurance is a founding member, and only Brit, in genre-smashing fusioneers Snarky Puppy, who’ve risen from obscurity by playing over 1,000 gigs around the world and have just been nominated for another Grammy.

Keith Jarrett – Point of Departure

A singular force in the realm of spontaneously created music, Keith Jarrett has an unmatched body of work that straddles both jazz and classical worlds.

Top 10 jazz albums of 2015

1) Kamasi Washington The Epic Brainfeeder Kamasi Washington (ts), Thundercat, Miles Mosley (b), Ronald Bruner Jr, Tony Austin, (d) Patrice Quinn (v), Ryan Porter (tb), Brandon Coleman and Cameron Graves (p, kys) plus strings.

Larry Young – Heaven on Earth

Jack McDuff among others dubbed Larry Young ‘the Coltrane of the Hammond organ’ – and he remains one of the all-time heavyweight players of this majestic instrument – expanding its language from his roots in Bartók and the blues, to McCoy Tyner, Trane and blazing jazz-rock.

Brian Auger – From Oblivion to Here

One of Britain’s foremost Hammond heroes, Brian Auger’s career began in swinging 1960s London when he was asked to dep for an indisposed Georgie Fame.

Elephant9 – Moving Mountains

Heavy riffing jazz-prog monoliths Elephant9 have just released Silver Mountain, arguably their finest recording yet.

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