Svarc/Hanley/Longhawn – 20/21 (Available on Bandcamp/ link below. Album review by Nigel Price) Considering the vastness of the jazz universe, it would be all too easy to make the mistake of shouting […]
Svarc/Hanley/Longhawn – ‘20/21’
Helena Kay’s KIM Trio & Peter Johnstone – ‘Golden Sands’
Helena Kay’s KIM Trio & Peter Johnstone – Golden Sands (Sulis Records. Available from BandCamp. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) From the very outset, you feel you’re in safe hands listening to […]
Leverton Fox – ‘In The Flicker’
Leverton Fox – In The Flicker (Not Applicable. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) In The Flicker is Leverton Fox’s eighth album. It presents experimental electronic music on the fringe of jazz, […]
‘Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII – Sketches of Miles’ (Theo Croker)
Theo Croker Quartet and members of the Berlin Philharmonic (arr Magnus Lindgren) – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII – Sketches of Miles (ACT 9948-2. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) To open CD 1 […]
Dr John – ‘Things Happen That Way’
Dr John – Things Happen That Way (Rounder Records 00888072427433. Album review by Jane Mann) Things Happen That Way is Dr John’s final studio album – he was working on it when […]
Camilla George – ‘Ibio-Ibio’
Camilla George – Ibio-Ibio (K7/ Ever Records – EVER102CD. Review by Graham Spry) So much of the vibrant young London Jazz scene owes a huge debt to Tomorrow’s Warriors, not only in […]
Goldsmith Baynes – ‘E Rere Rā’
Goldsmith Baynes – E Rere Rā (Meow Jazz Label – 011LP. Album Review by Fiona Mactaggart) This poetic and captivating debut album by vocal and keyboard partnership Goldsmith Baynes appears to exemplify the […]
Paul Giger – ars moriendi (ECM)
Paul Giger – ars moriendi (ECM New Series 4857765. Album review by Graham Spry) Swiss violinist Paul Giger is one of those musicians and composers that are almost impossible to pigeonhole, and […]
Mark Guiliana – ‘the sound of listening’
Mark Guiliana – the sound of listening (Edition Records – EDN1210 Review by Graham Spry) One small benefit of the unscheduled leisure time brought about by the lockdown was the opportunity musicians […]
Leléka – ‘Sonce u Serci’
Leléka – Sonce u Serci (FM321-2. Album review by Alison Bentley) “I have the sun in my heart,” sings Ukrainian vocalist Viktoria Leléka, and you believe her. This album of mostly traditional […]
Michael Wollny Trio – ‘Ghosts’
Michael Wollny Trio – Ghosts (release date 30 Sep 2022)(ACT 9956-2. CD review by Mike Collins) With the release of Ghosts, pianist Michael Wollny reunites the trio that recorded Weltentraum, the 2014 […]
Keith Jarrett – ‘Bordeaux Concert’
Keith Jarrett – Bordeaux Concert (ECM 4576608. Album review by Jon Turney) Will this be the final solo piano release from Keith Jarrett? We know he can no longer perform, but you’d […]
Duke Ellington – ‘Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival 1969-1973’
Duke Ellington – Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival 1969 -1973 (The Lost Recordings TLR2204041. Album review by Len Weinreich) By their own admission, record companies are a clumsy, scatty and careless […]
Samara Joy – ‘Linger Awhile’
Samara Joy – Linger Awhile (Verve 4826649. Album review by Adam Sieff) Samara Joy’s eponymous debut album released by Whirlwind during the Summer of 2021 was a masterpiece. Supported by a trio […]
Mal Waldron – ‘Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert’
Mal Waldron – Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert (Tompkins Square TSQ5906. Album Review by Liam Noble) From the first chord you hear on this recording, you know you’re not […]
