Ewan Bleach Orchestra

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Full Review

Over the past decade of reviewing records, Bleach’s name appears with unusual frequency among my personal standouts, not only from a critical standpoint, or projects I feel advance traditional jazz in the 21st century, but also among the albums I return to simply for pleasure. His playing is consistently evocative and unmistakably his own.

Bleach is a composer who has been quietly developing material across years and projects, and now chooses to present it as a unified statement.

Mystic Mood ..... is the sound of a musician who has spent years lifting other projects, absorbing traditions from many directions, and who now knows exactly what he wants to say under his own name.

I’m not the first to say it, but Ewan Bleach is easily among the most distinctive reed players in traditional jazz today and deserves to be followed and supported by the jazz community as the standouts of recent generations were.

(The Syncopated Times December 31 2025)

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