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• Music / Bristol gig listings

  Bristol’s month in jazz – May 2026

  Still more festivals!

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• Music / contemporary classical

  Review: Bristol New Music Festival, various venues: So – what’s new?

  the answer may be as elusive as ever but the quest for it certainly proved satisfying

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• Music / British jazz

  Review: Jazz Stroud, various venues, Stroud – well, that was fun!

  it kicked off with a bang and pretty much kept going until late Sunday night

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• Music / Jazz

  Bristol’s month in Jazz – July 2025

  Pianist John Law launches a quiet jazz revolution in Bristol this month

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• Music / improvised music

  Here comes the future …

  Bristol New Music Festival celebrates the experimental and the unexpected

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• Music / contemporary classical

  Review: Jow Album launch, El Rincon

  the limitations of just two instruments were stretched through tone, texture and musical imagination

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• Music / Jazz

  Bristol’s week in jazz, February 3 – 9

  Ubercool keyboard players, supersmart saxophonists, open-minded improvisers and, as ever, the funk.

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• Music / contemporary jazz

  Bristol’s week in jazz, December 2 – 8

  It's a showcase week for female vocalists of all kinds this week.

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