Michael Janisch – Worlds Collide (Whirlwind Recordings. WR4742. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Michael Janisch has put together a band of some of the best players from London and New York for […]
Michael Janisch – Worlds Collide
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Walt Weiskopf European Quartet – Worldwide
Walt Weiskopf European Quartet – Worldwide (Orenda Records ORENDA0065. Review by Peter Vacher) Tenorist Weiskopf is one of those top New York pros whose career has taken in the heady first-call local session […]
Binker Golding – Abstractions of Reality Past and Incredible Feathers
Binker Golding – Abstractions of Reality Past and Incredible Feathers (Binker Golding. CD review by Harry Stott) Surprisingly straight up and filled with wonderfully lyrical flourishes, tenor saxophonist Binker Golding’s new record, […]
Marama Café Band – Introducing…
Marama Café Band – Introducing… (MARAMA RECORDS MR0001. CD Review by Alison Bentley) It’s that feeling of wandering round an old European city – Bucharest, maybe, or Sofia – and suddenly hearing music […]
Struan Douglas – The Story Of South African Jazz: Volume One
Struan Douglas – The Story Of South African Jazz: Volume One (Afribeat.com Pbk 344pp Book review by Andy Hamilton) Struan Douglas is a jazz journalist and trumpeter, born in Durban. This second […]
Michel Legrand Remembered (Royal Festival Hall, 20 September)
Jeremy Sams’ multi-stranded career includes directing West End stage hits and composing scores for the theatre, film and television – he’s won a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello award and has received […]
Olie Brice – Somersaults trio (new album 10 Sept, UK tour 2 – 18 Oct)
Bassist Olie Brice has a trio, Somersaults, with saxophonist Tobias Delius and drummer Mark Sanders. They are about to release a second album together on 10 September, and have a launch tour […]
Sylvain Rifflet – Troubadours
Sylvain Rifflet – Troubadours (Magriff 0256. CD review by Peter Slavid) Sylvain Rifflet plays tenor sax, clarinet and bass clarinet plus, for this album, harmonium and shruti box. He also composed most of […]
Eddie Parker’s Debussy Mirrored Ensemble – Live
Eddie Parker’s Debussy Mirrored Ensemble – Live (EPDM001. CD Review by Jon Turney) I was lucky to hear the first performance of Eddie Parker’s Debussy project in Cheltenham last year, noting then that it […]
Electric Lady Big Band – Electric Lady Big Band
Electric Lady Big Band – Electric Lady Big Band (www.electricladybigband.bandcamp.com. CD review by Frank Griffith) To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s last studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968) guitarist, vocalist and […]
Richard Michael – Contemplation
Richard Michael – Contemplation (Self-released. CD review by Fiona Mactaggart) Self-released on the occasion of Richard Michael’s 70th birthday, what a wonderful gift this solo double album is to himself, his family and […]
Michał Urbaniak (Hideaway Jazz Club 14 Sept)
Polish jazz violinist, saxophonist and composer Michał Urbaniak, an international fusion-jazz icon, has recorded and toured with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis (featuring on the album Tutu) Billy Cobham, George […]
Vijay Iyer (Musicality, Wigmore Hall residency, 2019/20)
On 22 September, New York pianist Vijay Iyer opens his 2019/20 Wigmore Hall Musicality residency with two concerts (The Transitory Poems with Craig Taborn, and The Evolution Tapes with Mike Ladd. There […]
The band with no name: Deurloo/Zawadzki/Chisnall at Ambleside
The band with no name: Deurloo/Zawadzki/Chisnall (Ambleside Days Contemporary Jazz Festival, 31 August 2019. Review by Mike Collins) The Ambleside Days festival has an enticing roster of nightly gigs with an impressive […]
Mary Stallings – Songs Were Made To Sing
Mary Stallings – Songs Were Made To Sing (Smoke Sessions SSR-1903. CD review by Peter Vacher) Back in 1970, San Francisco-born vocalist Mary Stallings toured Britain with the Count Basie orchestra and […]
