Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis – Les Oiseaux De Matisse(Discus 72CD. CD review by Mark McKergow) Veteran saxophonist Ron Caines makes a very welcome return with this fascinating and inspiring collection […]
Kate Westbrook – Granite: A Soliloquy(Westbrook Records – WR003. CD Review by Jane Mann) Granite is a song cycle about Dartmoor with text by Kate Westbrook and music by Mike Westbrook. This […]
Ofer Landsberg Quartet – I’ll Be Around(CDBaby.com. CD Review by Leonard Weinreich) Ofer Landsberg started playing the guitar at seven years old. At 17, he traded Tel Aviv for New York, spiritual home of […]
Flat Earth Society – Untitled #0(Igloo IGL299. CD review by Peter Slavid) There’s a long tradition of quirky, experimental, improvising big bands in Belgium and Holland. Starting with Willem Breuker through Misha […]
Joey Morant – Forever Sanctified(BluJazz BJ3468. CD Review by Peter Vacher) Originally from Charleston, Joey Morant is now a New York-based veteran trumpeter who seems to have worked with everyone from Count […]
Gary Williams – Treasure Seeker(Bos 6824- 2018. CD review by Frank Griffith) Singer Gary Williams has just released his tenth CD, Treasure Seekers, a collection of 13 songs that he co-wrote with pianist […]
Mark Turner & Ethan Iverson – Temporary Kings(ECM 673 6988. CD review by Peter Bacon) There are bands which contain opposites, individual members who bring strikingly contrasting characters to the table and […]
Ambrose Akinmusire – Origami Harvest (Blue Note 002866202. CD review by Jon Turney) Imagine making music to accompany a roll call of young black men and women killed by supposed law-enforcers. Imagine […]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio – Live(ECM 6738486. CD Review by Peter Jones) It starts with a distant rumble of beaters on tom-toms, then a few plinking, impressionist piano chords and then, after a […]
Echoes of Ellington Jazz Orchestra – Jazz Planets: A Tribute To Gustav Holst and Duke Ellington, arranged by Peter Long(Right Track Records 2018. CD review by Frank Griffith) Peter Long‘s latest Echoes […]
Metamorphic – The Two Fridas(DISCUS 65CD. CD review by AJ Dehany) When she was six, the painter Frida Kahlo contracted polio. Confined to bed for a month, she made up an imaginary […]
Trygve Seim – Helsinki Songs(ECM 675 1580. CD review by Peter Bacon) The singular title track of this album, Helsinki Song, has a four-note ostinato line from double bassist Mats Eilertsen complemented […]
Gabrielle Ducomble – Across the Bridge (MGP CD020. CD Review by Peter Jones) Blessed with a light, accurate, affectless voice rather in the mode of Stacey Kent, Belgian-born Gabrielle Ducomble has done very […]
Flying Machines – New Life (Ubuntu Music UBU0017. CD review by Adrian Pallant) Flying Machines’ maiden voyage – their eponymous debut release of 2016 – announced the soaring, anthemic drive and cirrostratus […]
Yellowjackets – Raising Our Voice(Mack Avenue MAC1137. CD Review by Peter Bacon) It’s clear from the first minute or so of the opening track, Man Facing North, that featured vocalist Luciana Souza […]
