improvised music

• Music / Jazz

  Bristol’s month in jazz – October 2025

  It's a big (happy) birthday for Mr Bebop

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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 / 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 / British jazz

  Bristol’s month in jazz – September 2025

  A hero returns, a legend arrives and some faves bid farewell

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• Music / Jazz

  Bristol’s month in jazz – August 2025

  A host of great trios should prove that three's company

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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 / Jazz

  Bristol’s month in jazz – April 2025

  A tantalising range of ivory tinklers spring into action

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• Music / free jazz

  Review: SWIG feat Charlotte Keeffe & Bob Helson, Star & Dove

  The free music collective has found a new home in Totterdown

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