Soweto Kinch – White JuJu (LSO Live. Download only. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) When White JuJu was recorded live during the 2021 London Jazz Festival (review of concert below), the Barbican […]
Rebecca Nash – Redefining Element 78 (Whirlwind Recordings WR4796. Album review by Jon Turney) Pianist Rebecca Nash’s new project is a compositionally ambitious suite that began life at Bristol Jazz Festival a […]
Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara (Brownswood Recordings BWOOD0257CD. Album review by Graham Spry) Drummer Tom Skinner has been a significant force in British jazz for over a decade. He first came […]
Sean Gibbs – Confluence (Ubuntu Music. UBU0124. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Confluence is trumpeter Sean Gibbs‘ second album for Ubuntu. He’s joined by sixteen musicians. Gibbs wrote the six tunes specifically […]
Ahmad Jamal – Emerald City Nights, Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964 / Emerald City Nights, Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966 (Jazz Detective DDJD-001 and DDJD-002. LP review by Andrew Cartmel) The inaugural […]
ELDA – Collaborations 2020-2022 (7CD EP box set(*). Album review/ feature by AJ Dehany) NB also: Tour Dates imminent / listed below Collaborations 2020-2022 is a warm reminder of a moment when […]
Donald Byrd – Live: Cookin’ with Blue Note at Montreux (Blue Note 4599839. Album review by Adam Sieff) More buried treasure courtesy of Blue Note. Hot on the heels of November’s Elvin […]
Courtney Pine – Spirituality (Destin-E. 777103579X. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) In what might be considered a sequel to their 2015 release Song (The Ballad Book) – reviewed for us by the […]
Various Artists / Blue Note Re:imagined II (Decca Records 4563667. Album Review by Jane Mann) This second collection of reworked tunes from the Blue Note archives reminded me of the samplers of […]
Marc Mommaas – The Impressionist (Sunnyside Records. Album review by Dick Hovenga (*)) Saxophonist Marc Mommaas makes far too few records, and that’s a fact. Because when he does get round to […]
Mike Westbrook – LONDON BRIDGE. Live in Zürich 1990 (Westbrook Records 011. Album review by Jon Turney) Mike Westbrook’s wonderfully extended career has covered a range from big bands to small groups […]
Wadada Leo Smith – Emerald Duets / String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (two boxsets)(TUM Records. Review by Olie Brice) The Finnish record label TUM has been doing an impressive job of documenting Wadada […]
The W – Portrait (Ubuntu Music. Album review by Graham Spry) For his first full-length studio album for Ubuntu Music, Portrait, London-based pianist and composer Bruno Heinen has gathered together a truly […]
Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano – Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian (ECM 4599490. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) The recording career of Paul Motian (1931–2011) began with Bill Evans’s […]
O’Higgins & Luft – Pluto (Ubuntu Music – UBU0126. CD Review by Graham Spry) In 2019, during what now seems a very different age and a long time ago before the pandemic, […]
