
Sean Gibbs Quintet – When Can I See You Again?(Ubuntu Music. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Sean Gibbs hails from Edinburgh but is now London based, after having spent four very productive years on the […]
Sean Gibbs Quintet – When Can I See You Again?(Ubuntu Music. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Sean Gibbs hails from Edinburgh but is now London based, after having spent four very productive years on the […]
Revival Room – Revival Room(Efpi Records. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Revival Room is both the name of the group and the title of the album coming out on Efpi Records, the Manchester-based label that […]
Kiefer – When There’s Love Around(Stones Throw Records. Digital download review by Graham Spry) It’s no doubt a cliché but it seems generally true that music from the west coast of America, […]
Matt Ridley – The Antidote(Ubuntu Music UBU0068. CD review by Graham Spry) Familiar to jazz enthusiasts for having played double bass with many of the country’s best ensembles, it’s also probably fair […]
The 31st of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) sees an Ellington tune polished to a new lustre. The pianist and soprano saxophone player here were both immensely fertile artists. Yet something […]
The 29th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is a blast from Mike Gibbs, taking it back home. Anything Mike Gibbs had a hand in is worth listening to, but extra […]
The 28th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is a bittersweet Art Pepper ballad that epitomises his last years. From the rich clutch of recordings that preserve Art Pepper’s glorious late […]
The 27th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) highlights the work of a late, great piano master. The marvellous Stanley Cowell’s first solo piano album graced the storied label he ran […]
The 25th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) features a British saxophone master on a rare excursion into freedom. Some famous names on this one: Jack Bruce; John McLaughlin. But it’s […]
Obed Calvaire, Bob Franceschini, Kevin Hays & Orlando Le Fleming – Whole Lotta Love: The Music of Led Zeppelin (Chesky Records. Album review by John Bungey) Jazz Led Zeppelin? Was this a […]
Five-Way Split(Toulouse Lautrec. 12 June 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Toulouse Lautrec has been back in full swing for a few weeks now with everything from burlesque to singer-songwriters to life drawing […]
The 24th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), perhaps the most influential guitar player of the last decades. Much of Bill Frisell’s later work finds him digging deeper into songs he […]
AJ Dehany remembers the 2019 edition and looks forward to dipping a toe back in the water of music festivals: Styling itself as a Scottish Supernormal, the delayed third edition of the […]
The 23rd of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is a duo that brought out the best in two great players. Abdullah Ibrahim’s late style sometimes seems to bear few traces of […]
The 22nd of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is a classic from the great Anglo-South African blending of the 1970s. This set, the first as named leader by the indomitable South […]