{"id":158705,"date":"2026-05-22T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/?p=158705"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:30:52","slug":"rising-jazz-pianist-joe-webb-hails-his-home-town-on-neath-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/rising-jazz-pianist-joe-webb-hails-his-home-town-on-neath-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising jazz pianist Joe Webb hails his home town on Neath Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-joe-webb\">JOE WEBB<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Neath Beat (Edition)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe Webb\u2019s light but tight jazz trio, featuring Will Sach on bass and drummer Sam Jesson, keep the high standard set on 2024\u2019s <em>Hamstrings And Hurricanes<\/em> with this neat little set of mostly original music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspired by the town he grew up in, <em>Neath Beat<\/em> paints a pretty picture of a place more synonymous with rugby and nightclubs than jazz and jollity. But, with his strong stride piano roots, and a deftness of touch that brings the brilliance out in his writing, Webb conjures a convincing portrait of Neath as a place of musical inspiration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he\u2019s not striding between bass and chords, Webb\u2019s left hand is very light even for a jazz pianist \u2013 leaving plenty of space for his bandmates to play around in as he covers the melodic and solo material with real ease and originality. There are times you want these exceptional musicians to just go for it and let loose \u2013 they come pretty close on <em>James P<\/em> \u2013 but their style of understated excellence and cool reserve is infectious in its own right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>words JOHN-PAUL DAVIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joewebb5.bandcamp.com\/album\/neath-beat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neath Beat by Joe Webb<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzmag.co.uk\/joe-webb-neath-beat-album-review\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOE WEBB Neath Beat (Edition) Joe Webb\u2019s light but tight jazz trio, featuring Will Sach on bass and drummer Sam Jesson, keep the high standard set on 2024\u2019s Hamstrings And&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.buzzmag.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Joe-Webb-Trio.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-craft-leisure-news","category-recentpost"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/assets.buzzmag.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Joe-Webb-Trio.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-11-22 06:30:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158707,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158705\/revisions\/158707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}