Tom Bancroft’s In Common – Love & Stillness(Interrupto Music IM008 – CD review by Mark McKergow)Drummer and composer Tom Bancroft has developed a fascinating cross-cultural project drawing on jazz, Indian classical and […]
Martin Ptak – River Tales (col legno WWE1CD20441. CD Review by AJ Dehany) River Tales is an instrumental song sequence onomatopoeically embodying the force and flow of the Danube. Throughout its allusive, alluvial […]
Bill Evans – Evans in England (Resonance Records. HCD-2037. CD Review by Liam Noble. Relationships are strange. I had one with Bill Evans, it went from fascination, to a kind of canonization, […]
Mike Westbrook Orchestra – Catania: Live in Sicily 1992(Westbrook Records WR004 – 2 CD set. Review by Mark McKergow) This previously unreleased double CD takes us back to a series of Mike Westbrook […]
Roger Beaujolais Italian Trio – Barba Lunga(Stay Tuned ST011 – CD review by Mark McKergow) Roger Beaujolais’ latest outing sees him joined by a dynamic new Italian duo who urge him on […]
Fragments – Fragments(Northern Contemporary – nc003. CD review by Adrian Pallant)Free improvisation has long intrigued me; partly for the certain discovery of the unexpected and unknown, but also for its ability to […]
Duncan Eagles – Citizen(Ropeadope. RAD443. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Saxophonist Duncan Eagles may be most familiar from his work with the trio Partikel; for this CD of compositions reflecting a more […]
Mare Nostrum – Mare Nostrum III(ACT 9877-2 CD Review by Alison Bentley) Mare Nostrum III (our sea, and the Roman name for the Mediterranean) is the third album by three musician-composers who […]
Mats Eilertsen – And Then Comes The Night(ECM 770 2567. CD review by Peter Bacon) Do I sense something of a trend in ECM track programming for bookending an album with a […]
Scott Robinson – Tenormore (Arbors Records ARCD 19462. CD review by Mark McKergow) Quirky multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson returns to his first love, the tenor saxophone, on this powerful and creative ten-track recording […]
Huw Warren Trio – Everything In Between(CAM Jazz – CAMJ 7942-2. CD review by Adrian Pallant) Pianist Huw Warren’s long-held association with and deep understanding of Brazilian music has continued to inform […]
Landgren–Wollny–Danielsson–Haffner – 4 Wheel Drive (ACT 9875-2. CD Review by Richard Lee) My introduction to Nils Landgren was through his collaboration with Colin Towns on their wonderful 2007 reimagining of Cole Porter […]
Vein feat. Norrbotten Big Band – Symphonic Bop(Double Moon Records DMCHR 71355. CD Review by Peter Jones) In a truly pan-European exercise in co-operation, boundary-pushing Swiss piano trio Vein have joined forces […]
Mike Walker – Ropes(Madhouse 002. CD review by Mike Collins) Ropes is a Mike Walker album, right down to the last perfectly crafted melodic twist and rhythmic kick. It’s his imagination that […]
Hvalfugl – Som En Faldskærm (Self-released. CD review by Adrian Pallant) This bizarre sighting of purple whales serenely airlifted over a Scandinavian mountain range signals the arrival of the second album, Som […]
