
John Escreet – Seismic Shift (Whirlwind Recordings WR4793. Review by Bruce Lindsay) Pianist John Escreet was born in Doncaster, moved to New York in his early 20s and then decamped to Los […]
John Escreet – Seismic Shift (Whirlwind Recordings WR4793. Review by Bruce Lindsay) Pianist John Escreet was born in Doncaster, moved to New York in his early 20s and then decamped to Los […]
Oscar Peterson Trio – On a Clear Day(Mack Avenue 1199. Live in Zurich, 1971. Album review by Len Weinreich) Oscar Peterson (known as OP) was a piano giant with phenomenal technique who […]
Swansong – Do Swans Fly? (Hunnia Records. Album review by Fiona Mactaggart) Swansong is an international jazz trio, formed in Berlin in 2010 by Hungarian pianist Gábor Csordás and Berklee-educated, Japanese electric […]
‘Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band In Concert’(SteepleChase SCCD 36502. Album review by Len Weinreich) Sometime during the late 1940s, jazz hipperati first clocked Gerry Mulligan as a fledging composer and arranger slyly […]
Various Artists – Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Blue Note 4565996. 2 LPs. Album review by Richard Lee) Well, here it is…although, in a way, it isn’t. If seeing […]
WDR Big Band ft Luigi Grasso and Johan Hörlén – Birth Of A Bird (Jazzline D77114 – album review by Mark McKergow) The WDR Big Band celebrate Charlie Parker’s centenary in suitably […]
Andrew McCormack – ‘Terra Firma‘ (Ubuntu UBU123. Album review by Mike Collins) Pianist Andrew McCormack has been expansive in his musical excursions since his return from Brooklyn a few years ago, notably […]
Alex Paxton – Illoli-pop ( nonclassical. nonclss054. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Alex Paxton is a young composer and improvising trombonist who mostly works with contemporary classical ensembles, but whose music is, […]
Erol Pekcan/Tuna Ötenel/ Kudret Öztoprak – Jazz Semai (Nova Müzik .Album review by Francesco Martinelli) Forty-four years after its original release, the “Jazz Semai” album, widely considered the beginning of Turkish jazz, […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 9 (Jack O’Diamonds – Library of Congress field recordings 1934-1943) (MSESET9 – 6 CDs. Album review by Chris Parker) Disc 1: Mississippi River Blues Disc 2: Fort […]
Tomorrow’s Warriors – I AM WARRIOR (Limited Edition Double Vinyl Album from Tomorrow’s Warriors. Album review by Adam Sieff) I AM WARRIOR marks the 30th anniversary of Gary Crosby and Janine Irons’ […]
Magnus Lindgren & Georg Breinschmid – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XIII: Celebrating Mingus 100 (ACT 9955-2. Album review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Which album is Mingus’s masterpiece? Many argue for The Black Saint […]
Olivia Murphy Jazz Orchestra – Somewhere, Not So Far Away (Download only, available from BandCamp. Album review by Patrick Hadfield) Olivia Murphy was a new name to me, so my first impression was […]
Oscar Lavën – Questions in Red (Thick Records NZ TH 012 – Review by Nathan Wyde) The currently very fertile New Zealand jazz scene seems to make musicians versatile almost by default. Oscar […]
Michael Brecker, Mike Stern, Joey Calderazzo, Adam Nussbaum & Jeff Andrews / Randy Brecker, Bob Berg, David Kikoski, Joey Baron & Dieter Ilg – Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1987 (Jazzline D78112 – […]