Karen Ruimy – Black Coffee(Independent. EP review by Chris Wheatley) A change of musical direction here for Casablanca-born Karen Ruimy. Black Coffee sees the artist move away from flamenco and firmly into […]
Karen Ruimy – ‘Black Coffee’
Alex Paxton – ‘Music For Bosch People’
Alex Paxton – Music For Bosch People(Birmingham Record Company BRC011. Album review by Fiona Mactaggart) Not a lot causes this writer to laugh out loud, but this album did, repeatedly. For improvising […]
Capri-Batterie — ‘TANQ’
Capri-Batterie — TANQ (DPROMCD154. Album review by AJ Dehany) Over a century since Tristan Tzara stuck his mitt in a dictionary and pulled out the word Dada, the absurdist artistic movement originating […]
Nina Simone – ‘The Montreux Years’
Nina Simone – The Montreux Years (BMG 4050538631241. Album review by John Bungey) If you were whiling away the summer in Switzerland in the late 20th century, which was the year to […]
Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat – ‘Worry Not’
Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat – Worry Not (Self-released. Album review by Adrian Pallant) The last fifteen, pandemic-dominated months have undoubtedly pulled focus on our mercurial emotions. So the premise of debut release […]
Angrusori – ‘Live at Tou’
Angrusori – Live at Tou (Hudson Records HUD017CD. Album review by Alison Bentley) Musical borders blurred: Roma songs sung and played by musicians from the Slovak Roma community and Norwegian improvisers the […]
Mike Gibbs – ‘Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes’
Mike Gibbs – Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes (Jazz in Britain JIB 24-S-CD. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The enterprising Jazz in Britain label specialises in releasing archive material often drawn […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 4
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 4(MSESET4 – 6 CDs. Release Date 2 July 2021. Album Review by Chris Parker)Julius Daniels/Lil McClintock (1927–30) Texas Alexander Vol. 3 (1929–30) Peg Leg Howell (1926–27) Sanctified Jug Bands […]
Noah Haidu ft. Buster Williams, Billy Hart – ‘Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett’
Noah Haidu ft. Buster Williams, Billy Hart – Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett (Sunnyside Records, SSC 1596 . Album review by Mike Collins) A piano trio album subtitled Song for Keith Jarrett […]
Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller – ‘In Harmony’ (rec. 2006 / 2007)
Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller – In Harmony (Resonance Records HCD-2060. Review by Leonard Weinreich) Mainly dependent on inspired improvisation, jazz music is ephemeral stuff. Unrecorded performances evaporate into the ether never to […]
Maridalen – ‘Maridalen’
Maridalen – Maridalen(Jazzland 377 935 6. Album review by Peter Bacon) The wooden Maridalen church, a former mission house from the 1880s, lies in a valley north of Oslo and not far […]
Charles Owens Trio – ’10 Years’
Charles Owens Trio – 10 Years (La Reserve Records. Album review by Adam Sieff) Tenor saxophonist Charles Owens (born 1972, and not to be confused with the much older saxophonist and former […]
Amaro Freitas – ‘Sankofa’
Amaro Freitas – Sankofa(Far Out Recordings. Album review by Adrian Pallant) There’s always a frisson of excitement when a left-field approach to ‘piano trio’ comes into view; and an online search for […]
John Hart – ‘Checkmate’
John Hart – Checkmate (SteepleChase SCCD 31910. CD review by Mark McKergow) Guitarist John Hart teams up with baritone sax legend Gary Smulyan for this quartet date. The music is confidently calm and laid back, with a […]
Aki Rissanen – ‘Divided Horizon’
Aki Rissanen – Divided Horizon (Edition Records EDN1177. Album review by Jon Turney) This solo keyboard offering from a leading light of Finnish, and indeed European, jazz is a splendid hybrid creation. […]
