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Jazz In Britain A not-for-profit organisation, whose aim is to collect, curate, preserve, celebrate and promote the

Our contribution to the Shetland Viking’s legacy… I think these are all the CDs that Jazz In Britain has released with R...
12/10/2025

Our contribution to the Shetland Viking’s legacy… I think these are all the CDs that Jazz In Britain has released with Ron Mathewson on… no doubt, someone will correct me if I’ve missed anything!

Jazz In Britain pretty much started with Ron’s tape archive which he gave to us after Ray Russell had given us his. Ron was on the first vinyl album we put out – Ray Russell’s Spontaneous Event – and that introduced us to him and his tape archive from which the first two JIB CD releases came from (Warleigh Manor and Tubby Hayes’ Free Flight).

We’re very fortunate to be able to say we have an ongoing relationship with three more great British bass players, who either support our work or even give us recordings to use… that’s Dave Green (Rendell-Carr Quintet, Fingers, Quarternity, the Gordon Beck album that’s released tomorrow), Chris Laurence (Some Gnu Ones and Tony Coe’s Buds of Time… and maybe more Tony Coe soon?) and Roy Babbington (Mike Gibbs, Karl Jenkins, and an upcoming Stan Tracey album).

Geoff CastleImpressions of New York(Jazz in Britain Records)★★★★In September 1980 the London pianist Geoff Castle (1949-...
11/10/2025

Geoff Castle
Impressions of New York
(Jazz in Britain Records)
★★★★
In September 1980 the London pianist Geoff Castle (1949-2020) visited New York. While he was there the great pianist Bill Evans died. By November he was performing his Impressions of New York suite at Camden Jazz Week. This unreleased concert is now available on a double CD by Jazz in Britain, together with the April 1983 session of the same suite at the Ealing Jazz Festival.

Some outstanding British musicians are featured: bassist Ron Mathewson, trumpeters Ian Carr and Guy Barker, guitarist Ed Speight, saxophonist Brian Smith and Castle himself, who plays an enticing solo opening to Manhattan Dawn.

These records are a sharp reminder of what powerful and underrated units Castle led. The Ealing session especially is excellently recorded and the musicians play like fire. Hear Village Vanguard or the elegiac Waltz for Bill. All through these recordings the musicians emerge in full light again, out of past shadows.

Chris Searle in the Morning Star:

Aruan OrtizCreole Renaissance(Intakt Records)

They're all gone... last copy sold today... despatched to Italy... great memories of working with Ana and her mum... Par...
10/10/2025

They're all gone... last copy sold today... despatched to Italy... great memories of working with Ana and her mum... Parkinson's and Covid lock-downs notwithstanding... we would do it again in a heartbeat... thank you Ana for giving us the chance...

'One for the Guillemots'... superb writing from Dominic Rivron in The International Times - the 'magazine of resistance'...
09/10/2025

'One for the Guillemots'... superb writing from Dominic Rivron in The International Times - the 'magazine of resistance' - about Bobby Wellins' The Endangered Species (of birds):

In 1980, Bobby Wellins was commissioned by South East Arts to write a jazz suite. He was told he could write what he liked but they’d prefer, as Wellins himself put it, something ‘pertaining to the South Coat of England, where I live.’ What he wrote, The Endangered Species, was a response to t...

Three of the albums we've released this spring/summer have cover art created by the brilliant Alban Low... should we ask...
08/10/2025

Three of the albums we've released this spring/summer have cover art created by the brilliant Alban Low... should we ask him to do the next one? Actually a rhetorical question 'cos... we already have!

Tapes from Spike Wells, encouragement from Dave Green, support from Iain Ballamy, consent from Gordon’s sister Jude, tra...
08/10/2025

Tapes from Spike Wells, encouragement from Dave Green, support from Iain Ballamy, consent from Gordon’s sister Jude, transfers and mastering by Dave Dring, cover artwork by Alban Low, notes from Spike, Dave, Iain and Liam Noble knitted together by Simon Spillett…

Here is Gordon Beck’s Pay Now, Live Later: Live at the Bass Clef ’85… and it’s arrived a month early so we’re bringing the release date forward to next Monday, 13 October…

All the UK pre-orders will ship on that day… the international pre-orders will start shipping from the Polish warehouse tomorrow…

If you haven’t pre-ordered it, get in now: https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/pay-now-live-later-live-at-the-bass-clef-85

Jazz In Britain featured on Bandcamp Daily!Gordon Beck's 'Pay Now, Live Later' from Live at the Bass Clef ’85... schedul...
03/10/2025

Jazz In Britain featured on Bandcamp Daily!

Gordon Beck's 'Pay Now, Live Later' from Live at the Bass Clef ’85... scheduled for release on 7 November but, guess what, it's arriving early... next week!

These are the upcoming albums that Bandcamp fans are excited about.

'... a remarkable track record in the rescue or overlooked music... ' Read Russell Newmark's full review of Geoff Castle...
02/10/2025

'... a remarkable track record in the rescue or overlooked music... ' Read Russell Newmark's full review of Geoff Castle's Impressions of New York in the September issue of The Beat Magazine...

https://www.beat-magazine.co.uk/

Demon Dance from Geoff Castle's Impressions of New York is featured on Bob Osborne's latest World of Jazz playlist... li...
02/10/2025

Demon Dance from Geoff Castle's Impressions of New York is featured on Bob Osborne's latest World of Jazz playlist... listen here:

New Music From Cardello, Taylor, Vollbrecht And More article by Bob Osborne, published on October 2, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Radio & Podcasts articles

Mujician 'In Concerts' at No. 3 on the Bandcamp best-selling jazz chart the morning after its launch and No. 1 on the Ba...
18/09/2025

Mujician 'In Concerts' at No. 3 on the Bandcamp best-selling jazz chart the morning after its launch and No. 1 on the Bandcamp free jazz chart...

Jazz In Britain, in partnership with Paul Dunmall, is delighted to be able to announce the launch on pre-order of: ‘MUJI...
17/09/2025

Jazz In Britain, in partnership with Paul Dunmall, is delighted to be able to announce the launch on pre-order of: ‘MUJICIAN – IN CONCERTS’.

Available as a limited edition triple CD, or as a download, it totals over three hours of in concert performances from Mujician - the improvising quartet of Paul Dunmall, Keith Tippett, Paul Rogers and Tony Levin. The CD comes in an 8-panel digisleeve, with a 20 page booklet with notes from Paul Dunmall and illustrated with material from Mujician's archives.

‘The three concerts on this album span a period of seventeen years of the Mujician Quartet – in Cheltenham in 1993, in Vienna in 2003 and in Birmingham in 2010. Mujician was formed in 1988. We played together for 22 years until Tony Levin's passing in 2011; Keith passed away in 2020. We played many UK concerts in our time as well as in Europe, South Africa, Georgia and Canada. The USA label Cuneiform released seven CDs (6 studio albums and 1 live). For me I believe Mujician was one of the greatest free improvising jazz groups in the history of this music. We never spoke about the music beforehand, we just walked on stage and trusted in the music and in each other. The music really flowed seamlessly. OK, it wasn't always perfect, we were always searching but when it clicked it reached some astonishing heights, almost out of body feelings. It felt very spiritual indeed. It has been some of the best music I have ever been involved with.’ (Paul Dunmall, September 2025)

4 track album

Hi allJazz In Britain’s main UK warehouse is closed for the next two weeks, ie until 1st October.We have a back-up plan ...
17/09/2025

Hi all
Jazz In Britain’s main UK warehouse is closed for the next two weeks, ie until 1st October.
We have a back-up plan in place and aim to fulfil most UK orders as normal, but there may be a delay with some, especially back-catalogue, items.
We will continue to ship international orders as normal over this period from our Polish warehouse, unless the item is out of stock over there.
Please bear with us & as usual thanks for your continued support.
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Jazz in Britain Ltd incorporating the British Jazz Sound Archive

A not-for-profit organisation, whose aim is to collect, curate, preserve, celebrate and promote the legacy of British jazz musicians. The archive collects, curates and preserves off-air and other recordings of British jazz performances.

The organisation will publish books, release vinyl, CDs and downloads, working in partnership with musicians and their families. The source material will either come from musicians’ own archives, or from the collections of fans who had the foresight to preserve copies of off-air recordings. Recordings will only be used with the approval of the musicians or their families and subject to appropriate copyright clearance and royalty payments.

Interest is sought from anyone who has recordings that could be contributed to the archive, and from musicians (or their families/estates) who are willing to contribute material from their own archives.

From jazz innovations in the 1950s, to the golden age of 1960s and 70s modern jazz, jazz-rock and free improvisation, and all the original music created since; the archive intends to ensure that music is not lost, but heard, and that musicians receive recompense, recognition and appreciation.