Jazz for the New Year
Join our community of jazz lovers. Alyn Shipton is waiting for your requests: email jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
Alyn Shipton starts of 2026 with listeners' choices, in all styles of jazz from historic reissues to the newest sounds around including music from Hiromi, Art Farmer, Joe Webb, Gareth Lockrane & Brigitte Beraha.
Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social
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Hiromi
Out There: Takin' Off (feat. Sonic Wonder)
- Out There.
- Telarc.
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Joe Webb
Curve Ball
- Hamstrings and Hurricanes.
- Edition.
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Brigitte Beraha's Lucid Dreamers
What Does It Mean to be
- Teasing Reflections.
- Let Me Out Records.
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Anouar Brahem
Dancing Under the Meteorites
- After the Last Sky.
- ECM.
- 7.
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Michael Sutton
There's A Lull in My Life
- And I Love Her.
- Michael Sutton Recordings.
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Gareth Lockrane Big Band
Memories in Widescreen
- Box of Tricks.
- Whirlwind.
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Valeria Pozzo
Forgive
- Circles.
- Naonis Music.
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Dick Wellstood
Snowy Morning Blues / Carolina Shout
- Live at the Sticky Wicket.
- Arbors.
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Claude Thornhill
Snowfall
- L鈥橦istoire des Big Bands.
- 14.
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Art Farmer
Fair Weather
- Modern Art (in Four Classic Albums).
- Avid.
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Dizzy Gillespie
Enter Priest
- The Cool World.
- Verve.
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- Sun 4 Jan 2026 16:00麻豆社 Radio 3
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