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’
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’
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’
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 Album Review by Graham Spry) Producer Gilles Peterson originally made his name in the 1980s as a resident DJ in Camden at the Electric Ballroom and Dingwalls […]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’
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’
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’
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’
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’
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 […]
Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen – ‘Live Recordings 2019-2020’
Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen – Live Recordings 2019-2020 (We Jazz Records WJCD32. Album Review by Adam Sieff) Two’s company, especially when it comes to saxophonists and drummers. Just listen to Binker […]
Shez Raja – ‘Tales from the Punjab’
Shez Raja – Tales from the Punjab(Ubuntu Music, UBU0077. CD review by Adrian Pallant) A sultry sun silhouetting Badshahi Mosque and the Samadhi of Ranjit Singh in the cosmopolitan city of Lahore, […]
Adrian Younge – ‘The American Negro’
Adrian Younge – The American Negro (Jazz Is Dead Records – Album Review by Jane Mann) Californian lawyer-turned-musician Adrian Younge is a composer, recording engineer and producer who adores classic soul music. […]
Joachim Kühn – ‘Touch the Light’
Joachim Kühn – Touch the Light (ACT 9766-2. Album Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Put the words ‘music’ and ‘Ibiza’ in the same sentence and many people will visualise either superstar DJs pumping […]
Kurt Edelhagen & His Orchestra – ‘100. The Unreleased WDR Jazz Recordings 1957-1974’
Kurt Edelhagen & His Orchestra – 100. The Unreleased WDR Jazz Recordings 1957-1974 (Jazzline Classics D 77091. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This 3-CD box set of unreleased recordings by the Kurt […]
Lorne Lofsky – ‘This Song Is New’
Lorne Lofsky – This Song Is New (Modica Music. Album review by Denny Ilett) Canadian Lorne Lofsky (b.1954) is a name that guitarists of all persuasions, over the last four decades, have […]
