Jazz In Britain

19/12/2025

"On this album, Coe’s playing rests on an unusually integrated conception of composition and improvisation..." from Jack Kenny's review of our new Tony Coe album, 'Axel: What Say We Play Today?, on the Jazz Views site today.

I urge you to read Jack's full piece as I'm finding it's helping me (John Thurlow who 'discovered' and produced this album!) understand and appreciate the music better, and more deeply, than I already (probably pretty superficially) did. I knew I really liked it but didn't know why!

And to respond to Jack's urging... yes, we have another Tony Coe album in the pipeline for later next year.

And the Axel album was originally planned as a double album with more live performances from Ronnie's and elsewhere (with Bob Cornford rather than Gordon Beck) but after much agonising we dropped the second disc as the audio quality wasn't quite up to scratch.

Anyway, read Jack's full review here:

Quote The music is rather like tightly structured avant-garde embroidery, requiring concentration to fully appreciate the skeins of ideas. Jazz in Britain JIB-68-S-CD & JIB-68-S-DL Tony Coe (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano and Tenor Saxophone); Gordon Beck (Piano); Chris Laurence (Bass); Phil Lee (...

18/12/2025

Released today… a month ahead of the planned date!

All UK pre-orders have already been posted and all international ones will be on their way by the weekend…

… Tebugo by Evan Parker, Paul Rogers and Louis Moholo

17/12/2025

Chris Searle's review in the Morning Star of the Mujician album in his 'Four Best Jazz Album' list to close out 2025:

MANY jazz listeners have affirmed, that in the long wake of the John Coltrane Quartet, the foursome that has since most touched their brilliance is the English quartet, Mujician. Composed of the Bristolian pianist Keith Tippett, the south London tenor and soprano saxophonist Paul Dunmall, Luton-born seven-string bassist Paul Rogers and the Shropshire drummer, Tony Levin.

Between 1990 and 2005 they waxed six memorable albums on the US Cuneiform label, but now a triple CD has been created by Jazz in Britain, recorded from concerts in Cheltenham (1993), Vienna (2003) and Birmingham (2010). It is a beautiful sonic triptych called Mujician in Concerts, with the four members playing at their unified peak.

Sometimes haunting and hymnal as if coming from ancestral spirits — as in the opening message of Dunmall and Tippett in Cheltenham, othertimes rhapsodic and joyous: “We never spoke about the music beforehand,” declared Dunmall, “we just walked on stage and trusted in the music and each other.”

Rogers is a virtuoso bassist like no other, playing an instrument like no other, and Levin’s sense of time and moment is deeply empathetic, knowing instinctively the musical minds of his quartet-mates. Tippett and Levin are gone, but thanks to devoted and skilled travelling recordists, Andy Isham and Steve Trent, these long and precious musical instants are still with us, throbbing with life and artistry.

17/12/2025

Released just last week... but, just in time to make it into Chris Searle's 'Best of 2025 Jazz Albums', which will be in tomorrow's Morning Star... Tony Coe's Axel - 'What Say We Play Today?

Chris gets to choose just four albums... and one of the other three is another Jazz In Britain release - Mujician: In Concerts!

What are the other two? 'Only' Wadada Leo Smith and Charlie Rouse!

Read Chris's reviews online here: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/best-2025-jazz-albums

14/12/2025

Tony Coe's Cela, from What Say We Play Today?' in Bob Osborne's 'Different Noises' playlist today:

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14/12/2025

From about 50 miles north of San Francisco...

Neil Charles

Recently I played your music on my radio show, “Feast On This”, a program of Jazz and related musics, on KOWS-FM in Santa Rosa California, about 50 miles north of San Francisco.
You can hear this program ( and see the playlist) and recent programs here:

for 12-10-25

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/feastonthisjazz/episodes/2025-12-10T12_32_20-08_00

Thanks and good luck, Don Campau

Permanent archive for this show: https://archive.org/details/feast-on-this-archives-2021/Feast+On+This+12-10-25.mp3Feast On This 12-10-25broadcast on KOWS Radiokowsfm.comhosted by Don Campaudoncampau.comPhoto: Hedvig MollestadNathan Hubbard/ welcome to the grid/ Territory Games Marcelo dos Reis/ Aft...

14/12/2025

Tony Coe's Axel featured on Peter Badore's playlist on his 'Other Aspects' show on WAYO FM this afternoon:

Tomeka Reid Quartet - Under the Aurora Sky
Thomas Stronen - Cubism
Bobby Naughton - Slant (Live)
Max Richter - Path 3, Whose Name Is Written On Water
Zeena Parkins - Pluck
Kelsey Mines & Vinny Golia - Improv 4
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra - Baroque Variations
Oliver Lake - Rue Roger
Keith Tippett - Glimpse
Ziv Taubenfeld - In the Ether, in a Light
Tony Coe's Axel - Cela
Vytis Nivinskas - Transformations
Laura Altman - The Song That I Came To Sing
Quatuor Memoire - Quatuor a Cordes No. 2

Listen here:

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

11/12/2025

Most excellent review of Colin Harper's Pete Deuchar book from Jim Wirth over at Mojo... looks like we'll have to publish that second volume now... as we want to read it too...

11/12/2025

Tony Coe's Axel 'What Say We Play Today?' has landed and all UK pre-orders have been sent out. International pre-orders will be on their way tomorrow.

Get it here (CD or download): https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/what-say-we-play-today

07/12/2025

Pay Now, Live Later by Gordon Beck (on Jazz In Britain) and Late Autumn Sunshine by Michael Garrick (on My Only Desire Records) both reviewed in the December issue of Shindig! Magazine... the latest!

07/12/2025

A track from Gordon Beck's Pay Now, Live Later featured on Jan Klein's latest Take 5 Jazz show:

The latest show: program no. 1287 In my program this week: Piano, Organ and Fender Rhodes Simon Oslender, track from his new lp “On A Roll” recorded December 2024 with Will Lee: bass, Steve Gadd: drums, Bruno Muller: guitar, Jakob Manz: alto sax, Nils Landgren: trombone Pianist John Donegan, tra...

05/12/2025

Great review for SAROST's Aurora from Bill Shoemaker over at Point of Departure, the online music journal...

"Saxophonist Larry Stabbins’ recent return to active duty has been duly celebrated. He now has to reinforce his standing as a grey eminence in UK improvised music. Cup & Ring, his recent duo recording with Mark Sanders, confirmed his playing to be as strong as ever, but the debut of SAROST, a trio rounded out by the too infrequently heard Paul Rogers, suggests he is actually just getting started. Amid this year’s bumper crop of fine recordings representing this ever-vital community, Aurora stands out, as the trio tempers bold strokes with precise articulation to create music that is both daring and well considered.

There is a lot of shared history between these improvisers. Stabbins and Rogers first met in the early 1970s at the National Youth Jazz Orchestra’s summer school. They would reconvene in groups led by John Stevens during his long-standing residency at The Plough later in the decade. They subsequently worked together in a trio with Liam Genockey, Keith Tippett’s Tapestry Orchestra, and in The Dedication Orchestra. Both have played with Sanders in various settings, Rogers most recently in a trio with Paul Dunmall. These longstanding relationships go a long way to explain the cohesive ex*****on and fresh spirit of each of the album’s four improvisations.

One measure of fully matured improvised music is the speed and suppleness an ensemble can coalesce and then move the music to other spaces. In their respective, readily identifiable manners, Stabbins, Rogers, and Sanders take turns being the adhesive to achieve the former and the accelerant for the latter. Their methods vary widely: Stabbins employs everything from ethereal soprano textures to keening tenor lines; Rogers’ unique 7-string instrument spans sub-woofer-like rumble and piercing harmonics; and Sanders again demonstrates that he can start anywhere and go anywhere and retain both the spark of spontaneity and a smart sense of design.

SAROST has the resourcefulness that translates into staying power. Aurora indicates they can have a good run."
–Bill Shoemaker

Read the current issue here: https://www.pointofdeparture.org/Content.html