Jazz

• 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 / record shop

  New ‘records and things’ shop opening

  A local DJ, promoter and label owner is taking on a new venture

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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 / 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 / live review

  Review: Kevin Figes’ Sound Dimensions, The Mount Without – a fascinating and unusual evening

  Composer Kevin Figes had devised a thoroughly interesting and varied programme

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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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• News / Old City Sounds

  Day festival brings jazz, brass and secret gigs to 13 venues

  Pubs, venues, a church and a theatre will all be joining the festivities

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