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Chris Searle
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Music review / 4 June 2025
Monster sax
4 June 2025

CHRIS SEARLE urges you to hear the US saxophonist Joe McPhee on livestream tonight

xhosa
Interview / 21 May 2025
‘As a gender non-conforming woman living in a Trump America, it is a very deep thing’ to use my body to express myself’
21 May 2025

Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist XHOSA COLE and US tap-dancer LIBERTY STYLES

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Jazz / 30 April 2025
Impro at Oto
30 April 2025

CHRIS SEARLE wallows in an evening of high class improvised jazz, and recommends upcoming highlights in May

Interview / 14 April 2025
‘I hope I can keep on keeping on until the last drum roll and tattoo rolls out of my being’
14 April 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to drummer Steve Noble
Men’s football / 4 April 2025
From Spurs to Sound Waves
4 April 2025
CHRIS SEARLE interviews saxophonist Chris Williams about the extraordinary electro-acoustic album LEDLEY - a bold fusion of Jazz, football, and community spirit
Ineza
Interview / 26 February 2025
‘I enjoy the company of women musicians. It creates a different, supportive atmosphere on stage’
26 February 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Rwanda-born jazz vocalist INEZA
Peter Somuah
Interview / 5 February 2025
Living the highlife
5 February 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Ghanaian trumpeter PETER SOMUAH
Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson in concert at the Vortex with the T
Jazz / 28 January 2025
Upcoming jazz with Chris Searle: January 28, 2025
28 January 2025
An unlikely venue hosts a memorable concert, and has future treats in store
Roella Oloro, 2021
Interview / 22 January 2025
‘When it comes to Britain’s colonial past, music can be part of that reckoning’
22 January 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to British Nigerian/Jamaican pianist ROELLA OLORO
Nate Wooley
Interview / 6 January 2025
‘Burlap Heroes are Saul Bellow’s persons struggling just to exist’
6 January 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with US trumpeter NATE WOOLEY
Culture / 12 December 2024
Best of 2024: Jazz albums
12 December 2024
CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourites
Pat Thomas, Steve Noble and Seymour Wright play Cafe Ito
Music review / 22 November 2024
The struggle made sonic
22 November 2024
CHRIS SEARLE translates the fusion of four jazz maestros into a mental image of Hackney Carnival
Danilo Perez
Interview / 14 October 2024
‘Before each concert, we gathered in a circle with our heads together and felt aligned, making a sound’
14 October 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez
Album reviews / 14 October 2024
Jazz albums with Chris Searle: October 14, 2024
14 October 2024
New releases from Etienne Charles, Jason Anick/Jason Yeager and Elliott Sharp/Sally Gates/Tashi Dorji
Music review / 6 September 2024
Blown away
6 September 2024
CHRIS SEARLE is transported by a combative fusion of US and UK instrumentalists and landmark evening of jazz
Nduduzo Makhathini performing in Amsterdam on 28 October 202
Interview / 21 August 2024
‘We are looking at spiritual affinities and how these liberate and at the same time transcend the political’
21 August 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to South African pianist NDUDUZO MAKHATINI 
David Murray & Class Struggle at INNtöne Jazzfestival 2018
Interview / 7 August 2024
‘Give me a poem and I'll write a song with it’
7 August 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to renowned US tenor saxophonist DAVID MURRAY
Jim Mullen
Music Review / 6 May 2024
‘The day jazz washed away the dust of everyday life*’
6 May 2024
CHRIS SEARLE pops into his local for some serendipitous jazz goings-on
Music / 22 March 2024
Jazz albums with Chris Searle: March 22, 2024
22 March 2024
Reviews of Max Eastley/Terry Day/John Butcher, Trevor Tomkins' Sextant, and Caroline Kraabel and Pat Thomas
Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick
Interview / 14 February 2024
‘I think of the saxophone in a very vocal way’
14 February 2024
CHRIS SEARLE interviews saxophonist and flutist Tori Freestone on the release of her duo album with pianist Alcyona Mick
Sammy Rimington, center, at jazz funeral for Danny Barker, N
Interview / 23 January 2024
‘I couldn't play publicly with black musicians, only in their homes’
23 January 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with clarinetist Sammy Rimington
Culture / 27 December 2023
Best of 2023: Jazz albums
27 December 2023
CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourites
White-cheeked Starlings perching on power cables
Poetry / 12 December 2023
Birdy
12 December 2023
CHRIS SEARLE takes wing with Leeds-born poet of mixed Sri Lankan and English heritage, Seni Seneviratne
Phil Hargreaves
Interview / 22 November 2023
A proud and modest jazz revolutionary
22 November 2023
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist PHIL HARGREAVES about his new album PI, and his long-standing support for the WMA