Angelo Verploegen, Ed Verhoeff, Eric van der Westen – When Night Falls (Just Listen Records JL026. Album Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) From the first track’s gentle suggestion to Close Your Eyes it […]
Eyal Vilner Big Band – The Jam! (Self-released (WEBSITE). Album review by Len Weinreich) According to the late ebullient George Melly, it was George Bernard Shaw who described dancing as ‘a perpendicular […]
Ambient Jazz Ensemble – London Fields (Here & Now Recordings. Review by AJ Dehany) Ambient Jazz Ensemble is a provocatively misdirecting moniker – not so much ambient as atmospheric, closer in kin to […]
Mike Soper – Undoing (Self-release on Bandcamp. Album review by Peter Slavid) Trumpeter Mike Soper graduated from Trinity College almost 10 years ago. Since then he has played in everything from the trad […]
Roamer – Lost Bees (Diatribe Records – DIABOK040. Album review by Jon Turney) A midge caught in the eyelash neither of us sure who is more afraid Roamer is “a quartet of […]
Oded Tzur – Isabela (ECM Records – ECM 2739. CD Review by Graham Spry) From the very first notes of the opening track on saxophonist Oded Tzur’s latest album Isabela, there is […]
Jemma Freese – Shadowboxing (Available from Bandcamp – link below. Album review by AJ Dehany) Whether thrashing a keyboard with indie art-rockers Maxïmo Park, hammering avant-hard jazzpunk soundscapes with trio J Frisco, […]
Emma Smith – Meshuga Baby(Wingsor Castle Records. Album review by Leonard Weinreich) Call me a pedant, but shouldn’t this album title read ‘Meshuga Bubbele’? For non-Yiddish speakers, the expression ‘meshuga’ has multiple […]
Ricky Ford – The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford: Paul’s Scene (Whaling City Sound. Album Review by Adam Sieff) The great tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford (b.1954) as made a hugely enjoyable album […]
Bill Ortiz – Points of View (Left Angle Records. Album review by Bruce Lindsay) Trumpeter Bill Ortiz spent sixteen years as a member of Santana. The job may not have made him […]
Ella Fitzgerald at The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (Verve. Album review by Len Weinreich)For most of her career, the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald was managed by the incomparable impresario Norman Granz, […]
Opus 5 (Alex Sipiagin, Seamus Blake, David Kikoski, Boris Kozlov, Donald Edwards) – Swing on This (Criss Cross Jazz 1406. Album review by Peter Vacher) The Mingus-minded among LJN readers will recognise […]
Emma Rawicz – Incantation (emmarawicz.com and Bandcamp. Album review by Mike Collins) Incantation is a set of nine originals from saxophonist Emma Rawicz, a confident and engaging debut recording, that conjures a […]
Albert Ayler – Revelations: The complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings (Elemental 5-LP or 4-CD set. 5990443. Album review by Jon Turney) Three great saxophonists helped ease jazz out of the initially […]
Joe Webb – Summer Chill (Ubuntu Music . Album review by Denny Ilett) As jazz strove to retain its relevance in the 1960’s, and whether through desire or record company insistence, artists […]
