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LEDLEY album cover
Men’s football / 4 April 2025
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
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Interview / 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Rwanda-born jazz vocalist INEZA
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Interview / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Ghanaian trumpeter PETER SOMUAH
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Jazz / 28 January 2025
28 January 2025
An unlikely venue hosts a memorable concert, and has future treats in store
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Interview / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to British Nigerian/Jamaican pianist ROELLA OLORO
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Interview / 6 January 2025
6 January 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with US trumpeter NATE WOOLEY
2024 jazz
Culture / 12 December 2024
12 December 2024
CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourites
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Music review / 22 November 2024
22 November 2024
CHRIS SEARLE translates the fusion of four jazz maestros into a mental image of Hackney Carnival
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Interview / 14 October 2024
14 October 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez
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Album reviews / 14 October 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
6 September 2024
CHRIS SEARLE is transported by a combative fusion of US and UK instrumentalists and landmark evening of jazz
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Interview / 21 August 2024
21 August 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to South African pianist NDUDUZO MAKHATINI 
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Interview / 7 August 2024
7 August 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to renowned US tenor saxophonist DAVID MURRAY
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Music Review / 6 May 2024
6 May 2024
CHRIS SEARLE pops into his local for some serendipitous jazz goings-on
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Music / 22 March 2024
22 March 2024
Reviews of Max Eastley/Terry Day/John Butcher, Trevor Tomkins' Sextant, and Caroline Kraabel and Pat Thomas
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Interview / 14 February 2024
14 February 2024
CHRIS SEARLE interviews saxophonist and flutist Tori Freestone on the release of her duo album with pianist Alcyona Mick
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Interview / 23 January 2024
23 January 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with clarinetist Sammy Rimington
2023 jazz
Culture / 27 December 2023
27 December 2023
CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourites
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Poetry / 12 December 2023
12 December 2023
CHRIS SEARLE takes wing with Leeds-born poet of mixed Sri Lankan and English heritage, Seni Seneviratne
Hargreaves
Interview / 22 November 2023
22 November 2023
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist PHIL HARGREAVES about his new album PI, and his long-standing support for the WMA
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Interview / 6 September 2023
6 September 2023
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Denys Baptiste, saxophonist, after his tribute session to the great US saxophonist Wayne Shorter
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Interview / 30 August 2023
30 August 2023
CHRIS SEARLE interviews jazz pianist ALEXANDER HAWKINS
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Culture / 19 June 2023
19 June 2023
CHRIS SEARLE interviews trumpeter Byron Wallen about his album Portrait
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Interview / 30 May 2023
30 May 2023
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist, composer and orchestrator JULIAN SIEGEL 
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Culture / 19 December 2022
19 December 2022
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe
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Jazz / 27 November 2022
27 November 2022
New releases from Ches Smith, Brandon Lopez/Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey and John Taylor Sextet
Music Review / 21 November 2022
21 November 2022
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Jazz Interview / 15 November 2022
15 November 2022
Chris Searle speaks with Venezuelan pianist LUIS PERDOMO
Music review / 28 October 2022
28 October 2022
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Jazz Interview / 5 October 2022
5 October 2022
Chris Searle speaks with the Grand Union Orchestra founder TONY HAYNES
Jazz Review / 5 October 2022
5 October 2022
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Searle interview / 14 September 2022
14 September 2022
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with Hazel Miller, founder of Ogun Records
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Jazz Interview / 30 August 2022
30 August 2022
Chris Searle speaks with saxophonist ABRAHAM BURTON
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Jazz / 10 August 2022
10 August 2022
Chris Searle speaks with saxophonist HARRISON SMITH
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Jazz Interview / 29 June 2022
29 June 2022
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist XHOSA COLE
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Jazz / 20 June 2022
20 June 2022
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to clarinettist Arun Ghosh, on the release of his album Seclused In Light