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George Trebar Bass
Nighthawks Jazz quartet

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November 2025

Bassist George Trebar and his quartet Nighthawks debut album for Rubicon Jazz is a reflective and affectionate look at the parallels of jazz and cinema interspersed with original compositions by Trebar. His love of the cinema and the music composed for it by John Barry, Burt Bacharach, Michel Legrand and… more >

The Golden Road – Mark Edwards Plays the Music of David Forman

Mark Edwards Piano

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October 2025

Rubicon Jazz is pleased to announce an album led by pianist/producer Mark Edwards and featuring no fewer than 18 of the UK’s most in-demand Jazz musicians bringing to life the songs composed by David Forman over a period of 70 eventful years. Forman’s compositions are inspired by his enduring love… more >

The Ellington Piano Project

Arnie Somogyi Double Bass
Mark Edwards Piano

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September 2025

“One of those rare albums that sheds new and brilliant light on an existing work” – Jazzwise In the winter of 1973, at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne on the Sussex coast, Duke Ellington gave what was to be his final public performance. The finest jazz tunesmith, and his band –… more >

Food of Love

Julian Nicholas saxophones, composer, producer
Emil Viklický Piano

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December 2024

Originally recorded in 1995 in Prague at the famous Karlin Studios (the former broadcasting hub of the occupying Soviet forces), Food of Love has been out of print for many years. With a stellar line up of Julian Nicholas, Emil Viklický, joined by Robert Balzar and the late Dave Wickins,… more >

Songs

Imogen Ryall Vocalist
Emil Viklický Piano
Julian Nicholas saxophones, composer, producer

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September 2024

Vocalist Imogen Ryall is back with her second album with Rubicon Classics. After her successful album ‘Imogen Ryall sings the Charles Mingus/Joni Mitchell Songbook’, Imogen is now joined by renowned Czech composer & pianist Emil Viklický who has collaborated with Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.… more >

Imogen Ryall Sings the Charles Mingus / Joni Mitchell Songbook

Imogen Ryall Vocalist
Julian Nicholas saxophones, composer, producer

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September 2023

‘Mingus’, the album by Joni Mitchell from 1975 is the result of a 45-minute meeting arranged by Mingus’s wife between Mitchell, who was drifting towards a style of music jazzier than her previous output and Charles Mingus. Mingus was sadly waiting to die from motor neurons disease. Unable to play,… more >