Kairos 4Tet feat. Emilia Mårtensson – The Body Keeps the Score (CD/video review by Jane Mann) It is always a treat to hear the lovely voice of Swedish singer Emilia Mårtensson. […]
Kairos 4Tet feat. Emilia Mårtensson – “The Body Keeps the Score”
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Kevin Figes Quartet – “Changing Times”
Kevin Figes Quartet – Changing Times (Pig Records PIG10. CD review by Dick Hovenga*) Saxophonist/flautist Kevin Figes is a distinctive figure in UK jazz. He is constantly setting himself new challenges as […]
Jo Harrop Quartet Featuring Alex Garnett at the 606 Club (Club’s First Livestream)
Jo Harrop Quartet Featuring Alex Garnett (606 Club Livestream. 20 June 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) First and foremost hats off, raise a glass to Steve Rubie. In normal times he […]
Ingrid Laubrock and Kris Davis – “Blood Moon”
Ingrid Laubrock and Kris Davis – Blood Moon (Intakt Records CD345/2020. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) “Musically, we are kindred spirits,” says saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock of her duo with pianist Kris Davis in […]
Dave Storey Trio – “Jouska”
Dave Storey Trio – Jouska (Impossible Ark Records IALP 026. Download review by Mary James) In the Icelandic language there are 46 words for snow. In English we have just one. So […]
Digby Fairweather – “Notes From A Jazz Life”
Digby Fairweather – Notes From A Jazz Life (Acrobat ADDCD3322. Double CD. Review by Leonard Weinreich) Thirty-three tracks over two CDs performed by various combinations of artists include John Barnes, Roy Williams, […]
James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor – “Live in Willisau”
James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor – Live in Willisau (Intakt CD 342/2020. CD Review by Adam Sieff) I first became aware of tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis through his 2014 major label […]
Niels Lan Doky – “River of Time”
Niels Lan Doky – River of Time (Inner Adventures. CD Review by Rob Adams) Danish-Vietnamese pianist Niels Lan Doky first appeared on UK jazz listeners’ radar in an international quartet of Berklee music […]
Keith Tippett (1947-2020). Tribute by Tony Dudley-Evans
Tony Dudley-Evans writes in tribute to Keith Tippett Keith Tippett: A Major Figure in the British and European Jazz Scenes It had been known for some time that Keith Tippett was […]
Zoöphyte – “Signs of Life”
Zoöphyte – Signs of Life (Howlin’ Werewolf 004. CD review by Andrew Cartmel) Signs of Life is the first album by Zoöphyte, a flexible collective of musicians under the leadership of vocalist […]
In Lockdown with…. saxophonist Giacomo Smith
Saxophonist and clarinettist Giacomo Smith is a leading light in Kansas Smitty’s House Band, the era-spanning talented musicians based around their eponymous bar in Hackney’s Broadway Market. The group have quickly built […]
Trey Gunn – “Punkt1” and “Firma (96k)”
Trey Gunn – Punkt1 and Firma (96k) (7dmedia.com. CD reviews by John Bungey) This music “will punish casual listening”, warns the heroically named Trey Gunn. So no, you shouldn’t be cueing up […]
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra – “The Light That Shines”
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra – The Light That Shines (SPARK009. Download Review by Jon Turney) Hard to detach this nice release from the circumstances of its production. Fears that the future of recorded jazz […]
Bumi Thomas – a year on from being threatened with deportation from the UK
A year ago a London-based jazz singer caught up in the Windrush scandal was threatened with deportation. Bumi Thomas’s new release reflects the struggles that followed, says John Bungey. Last June Bumi […]
In lockdown with… vocalist and composer Barb Jungr
Barb Jungr “finds confessional depths in Bob Dylan and Jacques Brel that no one else can see,” wrote Clive Davis in the Sunday Times last September of her most recent album Bob, […]
