R+R=NOW – Collagically Speaking Live (Blue Note. CD Review by John Bungey) Amid all the obituaries of Chick Corea earlier in February one particular quote struck me. The pianist was speaking around […]
R+R=NOW – ‘Collagically Speaking Live’
Mark Feldman – ‘Sounding Point’
Mark Feldman – Sounding Point(Intakt Records, Intakt CD 354. CD review by Adrian Pallant) Violin … free jazz … isn’t that possibly a touch narrow and ‘out there’ for a 44-minute solo […]
SoSaLa – ‘Nu World Trashed’
SoSaLa – Nu World Trashed(DooBeeDoo Records. Review by Fiona Mactaggart) These days an odd image repeatedly appears in this writer’s mind: the UK in the process of being shrink-wrapped. Perhaps such experiences […]
Clare Foster – ‘Kumbhaka’
Clare Foster – Kumbhaka (Available via Bandcamp. CD review by Alison Bentley) “There’s a famous saying in Portugal and Brazil,” says UK vocalist Clare Foster: “Those that sing send their troubles away.” […]
Karoline Wallace – ‘Stiklinger’
Karoline Wallace – Stiklinger (Øra Fonogram, OF169. CD review by Mike Collins) A steady stream of new, inventive music from Norway continues to appear on Øra Fonogram, the Trondheim-based label. Stiklinger (meaning […]
NEWJAiM label. First four releases (Laura Toxværd, Paul Taylor, John Pope Quintet, Graeme Wilson & Andy Champion)
Tony Dudley-Evans reviews the first four albums on the NEWJAiM label: NEWJAiM (short for New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings) is a new label established in Newcastle by Wesley Stephenson who decided […]
Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine – ‘Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XI: The Last Call’
Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XI: The Last Call (ACT 9929-2. CD Review by Adam Sieff) Guitarists Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine have history going back to […]
Cory Weeds (with Mike LeDonne, Peter Bernstein, Joe Farnsworth, Eric Alexander) – ‘O Sole Mio’
Cory Weeds – O Sole Mio (Cellar Live. CD Review by Sebastian Scotney) A reviewer settles down to the task of reviewing an album…and up pops a sentence seemingly from nowhere, which […]
Tom Remon and Jim Mullen – ‘Duality’
Tom Remon and Jim Mullen – Duality (Lunaria Records. CD Review by John Arnett) The title is a good one. Close inspection reveals a number of dualities underlying this most enjoyable album. […]
Ed Benstead Quintet – ‘Places and Faces’
Ed Benstead Quintet – Places and Faces (Self-released. Album Review by Jeanie Barton) This eclectic album opens with an unaccompanied, stripped back rendition of Cherokee from Ed Benstead (flugelhorn) and Vasilis Xenopoulos […]
QOW Trio – ‘QOW Trio’
QOW Trio – QOW Trio (Ubuntu Music. UBU0068. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) The members of tis trio were apparently drawn together by their shared appreciation of the sax-bass-drums trios lead by […]
Nubiyan Twist – ‘Freedom Fables’
Nubiyan Twist – Freedom Fables (Strut Records – STRUT225D Review by Graham Spry) The name Nubiyan Twist refers to an African hairstyle but is fitting for a ten-piece collective whose music encompasses […]
Cameron Graves – ‘Seven’
Cameron Graves – Seven (Mack Avenue ART7066. CD Review by John Bungey) Batten down the sub-woofer, hold on to your trousers … here comes thrash jazz – 11 songs in a tumultuous […]
Uptown Jazz Tentet – ‘What’s Next’
Uptown Jazz Tentet – What’s Next (Irabbagast Records. CD review by Frank Griffith) The Uptown Jazz Tentet is a NYC-based ten-piece ensemble led collectively by trumpeter Brandon Lee and trombonists Willie Applewhite […]
Benoît Delbecq –’The Weight of Light’
Benoît Delbecq —The Weight of Light (Pyroclastic Records PR 13. CD Review by Sam Leak) If I were asked to name two current pianists who I think have truly unique voices as […]
