Alice Russell – To Dust (Bonus Track Edition) (Tru Thoughts. Album review by Amy Sibley-Allen) Nobody can deny the heart and soul that reverberate from British singer-songwriter Alice Russell. With this special […]
Alice Russell – ‘To Dust’
Emma-Jean Thackray – ‘Yellow’
Emma-Jean Thackray – Yellow (Movementt. Album review by AJ Dehany) Mercury is the planet that is said to rule communication, and Mercury presides over trumpeter and composer Emma-Jean Thackray’s first full-length album Yellow […]
‘Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain’ (1965-1972, Decca)
Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (Decca 5393586. Album review by Denny Ilett) The great trumpeter and educator Clark Terry used a phrase that became somewhat of a mantra for budding jazz musicians; […]
‘The Indigenous Afro-Jazz Sounds of Philip Tabane and his Malombo Jazzman’
The Indigenous Afro-Jazz Sounds of Philip Tabane and his Malombo Jazzman’ (WABB-090. Album review by Adam Sieff) This is yet another South African vinyl reissue of great interest from Canadian label We […]
Karen Ruimy – ‘Black Coffee’
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
