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 (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 (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 (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 (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 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 (Zoho ZM202103. Album Review by Peter Jones) It was a simple idea: why not record some old Wes Montgomery favourites and do them all […]
Tommy Smith Sextet – Evolution. (Download only, available from BandCamp. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) In a recording career spanning nearly forty years (so far), Tommy Smith has a large and rich […]
David Helbock – The New Cool(ACT Music, 9927-2. Album review by Adrian Pallant) David Helbock is clearly a guy who is difficult to pigeonhole, his Random Control Trio project, for example, often […]
STR4TA- Aspects (Brownswood Recording BWOOD240LP/BWOOD240CD. Album Review by Graham Spry) Producer Gilles Peterson originally made his name in the 1980s as a resident DJ in Camden at the Electric Ballroom and Dingwalls […]
Jazzrausch Bigband – téchne (ACT 9923-2. Album Review by Jon Carvell) Those who like their jazz to be a jingling background to a sophisticated reception should probably look away now. The Jazzrausch […]
Jim Snidero – Live at the Deer Head Inn (Savant SCD 2193. Album review by Sebastian Scotney) This album documents that rarest of events from the past few months: a live jazz […]
Georgia Mancio and Alan Broadbent – Quiet Is The Star (Roomspin Records. Album review by Denny Ilett) That glorious body of 20th Century musical work known as The Great American Songbook has […]
Neil Ardley – Kaleidoscope of Rainbows – Live ‘75 (Jazz in Britain JIB-21-S-CD/JIB-21-S-DL. Album Review by Jon Turney) Neil Ardley, active in UK jazz mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, left a […]
Stefanos Tsourelis Trio – The Wanderer (Self-release*. CD Review by Alison Bentley) Oud, guitar, jazz, and Greek and Turkish music – Stefanos Tsourelis describes himself as “…a musical wanderer, travelling to different […]
