if you weren't tuned in this morning you missed cherise — 'elixir', off her 2023 debut 'calling'.

cherise adams-burnett came up through tomorrow's warriors, the london jazz pipeline, and has sung next to gregory porter and michael kiwanuka. she built 'elixir' around early-80s paris pop and jazz, and that soft-focus warmth sits right there in the chords.

flew under most radar. shouldn't have.

stream → as-if-radio.com

cover: cherise, calling, kartel 2023

#NowPlaying #UKJazz #AsIfRadio

Richard Williams on the life of the great Mike Westbrook.

"Mike Westbrook obituary."

#UKjazz #jazz

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/12/mike-westbrook-obituary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The great jazz composer Mike Westbrook has died.

I've been lucky enough to see him perform several times, leading small groups and big bands.

His death is a great loss. But of course we still have the music.

#Jazz #UKJazz

https://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/

Together, As One is an album by British jazz quartet Dinosaur. It was released in 2016 on Edition Records.

John Fordham wrote for the Guardian

"Imagine the impressionistic electric-jazz moodiness and glistening keyboard textures of Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way seamlessly wrapped around Celtic folk melodies, Django Batesian idiom-swaps, and interwoven with American, Scottish and north African drumming – and you might have a feel for this superb set from Laura Jurd, the young trumpeter..

She’s joined by regular sidekicks Elliot Galvin (keys), Conor Chaplin (bass guitar) and Corrie Dick (drums).. A marimba-like hook, softly clacking sticks-patterns and a whirry, looping high trumpet figure patiently unfold the luxuriously stretching opener...The album title gets this special band’s essence just right."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/15/laura-jurd-dinosaur-together-as-one-review-jazz-cd-edition

#jazz #ukjazz #laurajurd #dinosaurjazzband

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjarZeZjkHE&list=OLAK5uy_kRyTXZXbRT-CWv4qt9xQzJyK7MSh_kty4

🎹 Joe Armon-Jones en concert au Badaboum le 27 octobre 2025 🎹

Billets disponibles dès vendredi 04 avril sur DICE à 11h00 par ici :
🎫 https://link.dice.fm/Ed66cae65ad9

#ukjazz #jazz #ezracollective #funk #keyboardist #concert #paris

44th Move (Alfa Mist & Richard Spaven) - Anthem (2025)

https://44thmove.bandcamp.com/album/anthem

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mpqytR5sbB-DMu2DEn3Ijt0xsY-QuaR3U

#music #44thmove #alfamist #richardspaven #jazz #brokenbeat #hiphop #london #ukjazz #blackacrerecords