Thomas Strønen/Ayumi Tanaka/Marthe Lea – Bayou (ECM 0724298. CD Review by John Bungey) Clamp on the headphones, kick the cat off the sofa, and settle down for a journey into the land […]
Thomas Strønen/Ayumi Tanaka/Marthe Lea – ‘Bayou’
Alder Ego – ‘III’
Alder Ego – III (We Jazz Records WJLP31. Album Review by Peter Slavid) III is the third album from this young Finnish group, led by drummer Joonas Leppänen. He wrote the majority […]
Binker Golding / John Edwards / Steve Noble – ‘Moon Day’
Binker Golding, John Edwards, Steve Noble – Moon Day (Byrd Out Records BYR 303. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans.) Saxophonist Binker Golding became known on the jazz scene through his Binker & […]
Wes Montgomery – ‘The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings’
Wes Montgomery – The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings (Jazzline Classics D77078. 1 CD +1 Blu-Ray DVD. Or Vinyl . Album review by Denny Ilett) It goes without saying that any new release […]
Theo Walentiny – ‘Looking Glass’
Theo Walentiny – Looking Glass (Available from Bandcamp . Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The pandemic has led, perhaps unsurprisingly, to a significant increase in the number of solo piano albums. […]
Stan Tracey – ‘Wisdom in the Wings’ (two albums from 1969)
Stan Tracey – Wisdom in the WingsTwo albums (Free An’ One and Seven Ages of Man, both from 1969)(Resteamed Records- RSJ114. Album Review by Frank Griffith) This double album reissue from 1969 […]
Kjetil Mulelid – ‘Piano’
Kjetil Mulelid – Piano (Rune Grammofon RCD2220/RLP3220. Album Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Kjetil Mulelid is a young Norwegian pianist who normally plays in a trio with bass player Bjørn Marius Hegge and […]
Stefano Bollani – ‘El Chakracanta / Live in Buenos Aires’
Stefano Bollani, Orquesta Sin Fin directed by Exequiel Mantega – El Chakracanta / Live in Buenos Aires (Alobar AL1009. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Since being rated best new talent by Italy’s leading […]
Lucien Johnson – ‘Wax///Wane’
Lucien Johnson – Wax///Wane (Deluge Records. Review by Adrian Pallant) Mystical, a touch retro, and increasingly spellbinding, Wax///Wane is the work of New Zealand saxophonist and composer Lucien Johnson. It’s an album […]
Steve Gadd Band – ‘At Blue Note Tokyo’
Steve Gadd Band – At Blue Note Tokyo (BFM Jazz 6218346762. Album review by Adam Sieff) It should come as no surprise that the Steve Gadd Band’s latest album is tasteful and […]
Krononaut – ‘Scratch Test’
Krononaut – Scratch Test (Glitterbeat GBDL 111. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This three-track EP comes out of the recording for the Krononaut album released in September 2020, which was a collaboration between […]
Pharoah Sanders, Floating Points & the London Symphony Orchestra – ‘Promises’
Pharoah Sanders, Floating Points & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop. Album Review by John Bungey) After more than a decade without a new recording and a good distance from […]
Dave Stryker – ‘Baker’s Circle’
Dave Stryker – Baker’s Circle (Strikezone Records 8821. Album review by Peter Vacher) In this febrile world of stylistic experimentation and performance uncertainty, there’s something eminently reassuring about the US guitarist Dave […]
Eddie Prévost: Four CDs on Matchless Records
Eddie Prévost: Four CDs with different groups. (Album reviews by Tony Dudley-Evans). ConcertOTO – Matchless Records MRCD 104. November 2012 Iklectik Live One – Matchless Records MRCD 103. November 2016 Bean Soup and Bouquets – […]
Nelson Riveros ‘The Latin Side of Wes Montgomery’
Nelson Riveros The Latin Side of Wes Montgomery (Zoho ZM202103. Album Review by Peter Jones) It was a simple idea: why not record some old Wes Montgomery favourites and do them all […]
