Music / jazz rock
The Soft Machine now is the best band I’ve ever been in
En route to the Jam Jar guitarist John Etheridge reflects on 50 years of being Soft
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Music / free jazz
Review: Trance Map +, Arnolfini – ‘Free music veteran Evan Parker still has the power to surprise’
An excellently judged demonstration of collectivity
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Music / 60s folk
The best of both worlds
How folk titan June Tabor became an unlikely jazz star
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Music / world music
Bristol’s month in World Music – November 2025
Flavours of South Asia take centre stage this month
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Music / Jazz
Bristol’s month in jazz – November 2025
the jazz is piling up faster than Autumn Leaves
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Music / Jazz
Review: Andy Hague’s Sixtytet, Bebop Club – respect is most certainly due!
the easy accomplishment of confident talents enjoying themselves together
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Music / free jazz
Legendary improviser returns to Arnolfini 55 years after first visit
Fifty-five years after his Arnolfini debut free jazz legend Evan Parker returns
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Music / free jazz
Review: Westport Sound 2025, Malmesbury – ‘Small, but perfectly formed’
A splendid cascade of the unusual delivered to a very appreciative audience
