Music / Jazz
Bristol’s month in jazz – October 2025
It's a big (happy) birthday for Mr Bebop
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Music / world music
Review: Beat Frequencies, St George’s – an atmosphere of meditative tranquility was instantly established.
We could all understand why the traditional music of Bali has such a pull on these players
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Music / contemporary classical
Review: Hidden Notes Festival, Stroud – a sequence of difference and surprises
This programme of unclassifiable outliers delivered a real breath of fresh air
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Music / Jazz
I’m really going to miss cheese!
It's goodbye to cheddar as percussion virtuoso Harriet Riley swaps Bristol for Bali
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Music / contemporary classical
Coming out of hiding
This year's Hidden Notes Festival offers another rich menu of genre-bending experimentalists
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Music / Jazz
Review: Messore, Moore & Stockham Brown/Spirited Bristol – things soon became rivetingly energised
As fine a display of empathetic group improvisation as you could see anywhere, at any price
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Music / latin
Bristol’s month in World Music – September 2025
From vintage reggae to cutting edge electro-Cumbia
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Music / British jazz
Bristol’s month in jazz – September 2025
A hero returns, a legend arrives and some faves bid farewell
