Jim Blomfield Trio – Strange Beauty (Every Way OK) (Pig Records PIG009 CD Review by Jon Turney) Bristol-based pianist Jim Blomfield, widely admired in his home city, isn’t as well-known elsewhere as he […]

Len Aruliah – No Complications  (Self-release/ CDBaby. CD Review by Lauren Bush) Canadian-British Len Aruliah is a well-versed alto and soprano saxophonist and composer who uses his cross-the-pond connections to collaborate with his favourite […]

Kate Williams’ Four Plus Three meets Georgia Mancio – Finding Home (KW Jazz – kwjazz002. CD review by Adrian Pallant) “Secret, silent moments. Sweet, familiar voices. Colour into colour. Wonder into wonder. […]

Mark Dresser Seven – Ain’t Nothing But A Cyber Coup & You (Clean Feed Records. CD review by Dan Bergsagel) Sounding more like a group of outlaws than a jazz ensemble, the […]

Terkel Nørgaard – With Ralph Alessi (We Jazz. CD Review by Dick Hovenga(*)) Danish drummer Terkel Nørgaard has been a very popular figure in Scandinavian jazz for some years now, and has […]

Tom Harrell – Infinity (HighNote Records HCD 7321. CD Review by Peter Jones) A simple riff in 7/4, accompanied by a flurry of semiquavers, heralds The Fast, the first tune on this […]

Fazer – Nadi (Squama SQ001. CD review by Tony Dudley-Evans Fazer are a young German group from Munich who all studied together at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in that […]

Mattimatti – Tomrum (Agogo Records AR105CD. CD Review by Stephen Vitkovitch) Tomrum (the word means void or vacuum in Swedish) charts the musical friendship of two Mattis (Matti Nilsson and Christoph (Matti) Matenaers) who began playing […]

Christian Lillinger – Open Form for Society (PLAIST. 004. CD Review by Alison Bentley) Can jazz be a model for society? German drummer Christian Lillinger brings together nine musicians from different European […]