Echoes of Swing – Winter Days at Schloss Elmau (ACT 9105-2 CD Review by Peter Vacher) I’ve enjoyed a number of this long-established international quartet’s previous ACT releases. Their neat re-runs of […]
Sarah Thorpe – Deep Blue Love (Dot Time Records DT9087. CD Review by Adam Sieff) There’s something special about jazz music in Paris. Maybe it’s the the beautiful architecture, the atmosphere, the […]
Carmen Lundy – Modern Ancestors (Afrasia AFP 13823. CD Review by Peter Jones) Carmen Lundy treads her own path. Not for her the water-treading predictability of so many jazz singers, forever recycling […]
Stefan Aeby – Piano Solo (Intakt Records CD332. CD review by Brian Marley) Stefan Aeby’s 2018 Intakt release, The London Concert, featured a standard piano trio. A very good trio. On Piano […]
Sirkis/Bialas IQ – Our New Earth (MoonJune Records MJR099. CD review by Adrian Pallant) In his liner notes to Our New Earth, esteemed drummer Bill Bruford references the dual basis of this […]
Andrea Brachfeld – Brazilian Whispers (Origin 82795. CD Review by Sam Norris) Flautist Andrea Brachfeld’s CV reads like a who’s who of Latin jazz. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, […]
Paul Winter Consort – Everybody Under The Sun: Voices Of Solstice (Volume I: The Singers) (Living Music. CD review by Peter Bacon) I have a very soft spot for Paul Winter. The […]
Woody Shaw Quintet – At Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1979 Vol.1 (Jazzline D77070. CD review by Mike Collins) A steady stream of live recordings from the ’70s and ’80s at Onkel Pö’s […]
Joy Ellis – Dwell (Otio CD002. CD review by Frank Griffith) Pianist, singer and composer Joy Ellis‘ second release, Dwell, is now out on the Otio label. Since graduating from the Guildhall […]
Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet – When Angels Fall (Whirlwind Recordings WR4747. CD review by Peter Slavid) Back in the 1960s, Polish jazz was known mostly for it’s role in the protest movement against Soviet-era […]
Marius Neset & London Sinfonietta – Viaduct (ACT 9048-2. Album review by Rob Mallows) Peanut butter and jam (or jelly, if you’re American). On the face of it, it shouldn’t make sense in a sandwich: […]
Alison Rayner Quintet – Short Stories (ARQ Records. CD Review by Leonard Weinreich) Bassist and bandleader Alison Rayner has described her music in a recent interview with LJN as “melodic, with a […]
Charles Lloyd Quartet – Montreux Jazz Festival 1967 (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series 46) (The Montreux Jazz Label TCB 02462. CD review by Peter Bacon) Maybe it shouldn’t be so striking, but, somehow, […]
Kyle Eastwood – Cinematic (Jazz Village. CD review by Rob Mallows) A jazz album of some of cinema’s classic soundtracks from Kyle Eastwood. There is a sort of divine inevitability that the […]
Carmen Souza – The Silver Messengers (Galileo GMC087. CD Review by Jane Mann) This album, recorded between London and Lisbon for German record label Galileo, is London-based Portuguese/Cape Verdean singer Carmen Souza’s […]
