Jakko Jakszyk

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Prog’s 50 best albums of the year 2025
Prog's 50 best albums of the year 2025

By Jerry Ewing, Dave Everley, Julian Marszalek, Phil Weller Published

The prog genre has enjoyed an incredible year in 2025. Here are our top 50 albums of the past 12 months – did your favourite make the cut?

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Jakko Jakzsyk
After a crisis of confidence, the former frontman of one of prog’s greatest groups still doesn’t know who he is

By Dave Everley Published

Adopted soon after birth, his search for clues to his identity inspired a book which then inspired an album – and there’s a reason it’s not a completely prog work

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Peter Hammill
“Live, he’s just ripping his heart out in front of you”: Jakko Jakszyk’s favourite prog vocalist

By Fraser Lewry Published

Known for a Marmite voice, personal songwriting and a powerful sense of drama, his influence runs deeper than most people realise

Bands & Artists
King Crimson studio portrait
Rejoice! King Crimson are currently recording their first album in more than two decades

By Fraser Lewry Published

King Crimson singer and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk confirms that the band are in the studio

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Jakko Jakszyk
“After King Crimson ended there was inertia”: Jakko Jakszyk’s return with Son Of Glen

By Dave Everley Published

The guitarist/vocalist found his way back to music with help from his partner Louise Patricia Crane. Now he has several projects brewing, including Crimson-related material

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Jakko M Jakszyk – Son Of Glen
“Lyric-led music in contrast with his King Crimson work”: Jakko M Jakszyk’s Son Of Glen

By Johnny Sharp Published

True life informs the versatile guitarist’s first post-Crimson solo release, with plenty to pique interest even if it veers away from traditional prog

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Prog Tracks
Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko Jakszyk, We Lost The Sea, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!

By Jerry Ewing Published

Great new music you need to hear from Gwenno, Wytch Hazel, Rocking Horse Music Club, Schrodinger and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...

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Prog 160
The legacy of Chris Squire remembered on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now

By Jerry Ewing Published

The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now! Featuring Robert Fripp, Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, Katatonia, Cosmograf, Savatage, Ghost Of The Machine, Black Country New Road and loads more...

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Jakko M. Jakszyk
King Crimson's Jakko M. Jakszyk announces his new solo album will be released in June

By Jerry Ewing Published

King Crimson vocalist and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk's new solo album, Son Of Glen, is a compaion piece ot his acclaimed autobiography

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Jakko Jakszyk
Jakko Jakszyk: “Had my mother not had me adopted, would I have ended up in King Crimson?”

By Dave Everley Published

The amateur impressionist on finding his birth mother then closing communications with her, Stiff Records’ plans to make him a star, and saying the “stupidest thing” to Michael Jackson

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