Pål Nyberg – Lowlands (AMP Music AT086. CD review by Rob Mallows; released 5 March 2021) Swedish guitarist Pål Nyberg is a standard-bearer for straight-no-chaser jazz guitar, a player who combines composed melody […]
Pål Nyberg – ‘Lowlands’
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Nik Bärtsch – ‘Entendre’
Nik Bärtsch – Entendre (ECM 3528110. CD Review by John Bungey) Nik Bärtsch is one of that esteemed band of musicians whose work you can recognise within 30 seconds (*). The Swiss […]
Veronica Swift – ‘This Bitter Earth’
Veronica Swift – This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue MAC1177. CD Review by Leonard Weinreich) My first encounter with vocalist Veronica Swift was a YouTube clip shot in pianist Emmet Cohen’s apartment. Dressed […]
Logan Richardson – ‘Afrofuturism’
Logan Richardson – Afrofuturism (Whirlwind Recordings WR4772. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Afrofuturism, Kansas City-born saxophonist Logan Richardson’s fifth album, has a fascinating narrative thread through blues-influenced ensemble pieces interspersed with short spoken word […]
Mark Baxter – ‘Tubby Hayes. The Life Behind The Tenor’
Mark Baxter: Tubby Hayes. The Life Behind The Tenor. (Mono Media Books. £39.95. Book Review by Dave Gelly) It first came out as a limited edition, 100-copy deluxe hardback, price £84.95. It […]
Miguel Zenón – ‘Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman’
Miguel Zenón – Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music. Digital release. Review by Jon Turney) Ornette Coleman said he thought of himself as a composer first, a player second. […]
Prime Trio (Peter Johnstone , Kevin Mackenzie ,Doug Hough) – ‘Prime’
Prime Trio – Prime (Download only, available from BandCamp. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) The first release from a newly formed band featuring three experienced and exciting musicians, Prime is an alluring […]
Robin Phillips (New Radio Show starts 19 March on Delux Radio)
Robin Phillips is a singer and pianist, bandleader, teacher, has a studio, and recently made a jazz and blues documentary film coming out this year. Not quite busy enough, he talks about […]
Ann Liebeck (‘Violetta’s Last Tango’ Celebrating the Astor Piazzolla Centenary)
Happy 100th birthday Astor Piazzolla (born 11 March 1921). In this feature John Bungey investigates singer Ann Liebeck’s plans to celebrate the tango master on his centenary…tonight: Astor Piazzolla took the dance […]
Pierrick Pédron – ‘Fifty Fifty New York Sessions’
Pierrick Pédron – Fifty Fifty New York Sessions (Gazebo GAZ 198. Review by Jon Carvell) With track names such as Sakura, Mizue, Bullet T and Origami, you could be forgiven for thinking […]
Olie Brice, Binker Golding, Henry Kaiser, N.O. Moore, Eddie Prévost – ‘The Secret Handshake with Danger Vol. One’
Olie Brice, Binker Golding, Henry Kaiser, N.O. Moore, Eddie Prévost – The Secret Handshake with Danger Vol. One (577 Records 5860-1. CD Review by Dan Bergsagel) The Secret Handshake is practically dripping with […]
RIP Len Skeat (1937 -2021)
It is with great sadness that we hear of the passing of bassist Len Skeat in hospital in the early hours of this morning 9 March 2021 at the age of 84. […]
Tribute: Ian Bateman remembers Chris Barber
“The trad era is now at a close as the last of the great bandleaders departs,” writes trombonist Ian Bateman (*). Ian has many personal memories of Chris Barber, not least through […]
The Drive – ‘Can You Feel It’
The Drive – Can You Feel It (We Are Busy Bodies WABB-076. LP Review by Adam Sieff) In 1971, three members of The Heshoo Beshoo Group – alto saxophonist Henry Sithole, his […]
#IWD2021: journalist Annie Yanbékian
Annie Yanbékian is one of France’s leading jazz journalists. She works for France TV in Paris, where she produces online content about jazz musicians…and a broader spectrum of music as well. In […]
