Cyrus Chestnut – My Father’s Hands (HighNote HCD 7339. Album review by Peter Vacher) Now something of a veteran, the Berklee-educated pianist Cyrus Chestnut, who will be 60 this coming January, had […]
Cyrus Chestnut – ‘My Father’s Hands’
Önder Focan – ‘Patlıcan’
Önder Focan – Patlıcan(Focan Jazz. Album review by Francesco Martinelli) If you drop by the Nardis jazz club in Istanbul, by the Galata tower, and chat with guitarist Önder Focan, the chances […]
Jasmine Myra- ‘Horizons’
Jasmine Myra – Horizons (Gondwana Records GOND052. Review by Adam Sieff) Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana Records has become a valued record label as it consistently releases jazz music of the highest quality and […]
Joel Quarrington – ‘The Music of Don Thompson’
Joel Quarrington – The Music of Don Thompson (Modica Music. Album review by Lavender Sutton) Joel Quarrington, is best known as a classical double bassist. For over forty years, he has served […]
Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity – ‘Elastic Wave’
Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity – Elastic Wave (ECM 2724. Album review by Jon Turney) Widely admired Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen’s Acoustic Unity have been together since 2014, with this ECM label debut […]
Reinier Baas/Jonas Burgwinkel/Kit Downes – ‘Deadeye’
Reinier Baas/Jonas Burgwinkel/Kit Downes – Deadeye (Dox Records DOX633. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) We tend to associate the Hammond Organ with the soul jazz and jazz rock of the 1960s and […]
Forgiveness – ‘Next Time Could Be Your Last Time’
Forgiveness – Next Time Could Be Your Last Time (Gondwana Records – GONDD050review by Graham Spry) Gondwana Records is clearly proving to be a good home for members of Portico Quartet past […]
Angelo Verploegen, Ed Verhoeff, Eric van der Westen – ‘When Night Falls’
Angelo Verploegen, Ed Verhoeff, Eric van der Westen – When Night Falls (Just Listen Records JL026. Album Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) From the first track’s gentle suggestion to Close Your Eyes it […]
Eyal Vilner Big Band – ‘The Jam!’
Eyal Vilner Big Band – The Jam! (Self-released (WEBSITE). Album review by Len Weinreich) According to the late ebullient George Melly, it was George Bernard Shaw who described dancing as ‘a perpendicular […]
Ambient Jazz Ensemble – ‘London Fields’
Ambient Jazz Ensemble – London Fields (Here & Now Recordings. Review by AJ Dehany) Ambient Jazz Ensemble is a provocatively misdirecting moniker – not so much ambient as atmospheric, closer in kin to […]
Mike Soper – ‘Undoing’
Mike Soper – Undoing (Self-release on Bandcamp. Album review by Peter Slavid) Trumpeter Mike Soper graduated from Trinity College almost 10 years ago. Since then he has played in everything from the trad […]
Roamer – ‘Lost Bees’
Roamer – Lost Bees (Diatribe Records – DIABOK040. Album review by Jon Turney) A midge caught in the eyelash neither of us sure who is more afraid Roamer is “a quartet of […]
Oded Tzur – ‘Isabela’
Oded Tzur – Isabela (ECM Records – ECM 2739. CD Review by Graham Spry) From the very first notes of the opening track on saxophonist Oded Tzur’s latest album Isabela, there is […]
Jemma Freese – ‘Shadowboxing’
Jemma Freese – Shadowboxing (Available from Bandcamp – link below. Album review by AJ Dehany) Whether thrashing a keyboard with indie art-rockers Maxïmo Park, hammering avant-hard jazzpunk soundscapes with trio J Frisco, […]
Emma Smith – ‘Meshuga Baby’
Emma Smith – Meshuga Baby(Wingsor Castle Records. Album review by Leonard Weinreich) Call me a pedant, but shouldn’t this album title read ‘Meshuga Bubbele’? For non-Yiddish speakers, the expression ‘meshuga’ has multiple […]
