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Jazz / 30 April 2025
30 April 2025

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

Interview / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to drummer Steve Noble
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
Ineza
Interview / 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Rwanda-born jazz vocalist INEZA
Peter Somuah
Interview / 5 February 2025
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
28 January 2025
An unlikely venue hosts a memorable concert, and has future treats in store
Roella Oloro, 2021
Interview / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to British Nigerian/Jamaican pianist ROELLA OLORO
Nate Wooley
Interview / 6 January 2025
6 January 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with US trumpeter NATE WOOLEY
Culture / 12 December 2024
12 December 2024
CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourites
Pat Thomas, Steve Noble and Seymour Wright play Cafe Ito
Music review / 22 November 2024
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
14 October 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez
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
Nduduzo Makhathini performing in Amsterdam on 28 October 202
Interview / 21 August 2024
21 August 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to South African pianist NDUDUZO MAKHATINI 
David Murray & Class Struggle at INNtöne Jazzfestival 2018
Interview / 7 August 2024
7 August 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to renowned US tenor saxophonist DAVID MURRAY
Jim Mullen
Music Review / 6 May 2024
6 May 2024
CHRIS SEARLE pops into his local for some serendipitous jazz goings-on
Music / 22 March 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
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
23 January 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with clarinetist Sammy Rimington
Culture / 27 December 2023
27 December 2023
CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourites
White-cheeked Starlings perching on power cables
Poetry / 12 December 2023
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
22 November 2023
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist PHIL HARGREAVES about his new album PI, and his long-standing support for the WMA
Wayne Shorter, 2012; Denys Baptiste, 2005
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
Jazz pianist Alexander Hawkins
Interview / 30 August 2023
30 August 2023
CHRIS SEARLE interviews jazz pianist ALEXANDER HAWKINS
Byron Wallen at INNtone Jazzfestival 2019
Culture / 19 June 2023
19 June 2023
CHRIS SEARLE interviews trumpeter Byron Wallen about his album Portrait
Jacquard lace-making machines, 1968; Julian Siegel, 2018
Interview / 30 May 2023
30 May 2023
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist, composer and orchestrator JULIAN SIEGEL 
Charlotte Keeffe
Culture / 19 December 2022
19 December 2022
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe
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
Luis Perdomo
Jazz Interview / 15 November 2022
15 November 2022
Chris Searle speaks with Venezuelan pianist LUIS PERDOMO
Music review / 28 October 2022
28 October 2022
Tony Haynes
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
Members of the legendary Blue Notes sextet, trumpeter and fl
Searle interview / 14 September 2022
14 September 2022
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with Hazel Miller, founder of Ogun Records
Abraham Burton
Jazz Interview / 30 August 2022
30 August 2022
Chris Searle speaks with saxophonist ABRAHAM BURTON
Harrison Smith
Jazz / 10 August 2022
10 August 2022
Chris Searle speaks with saxophonist HARRISON SMITH