Electric Lady Big Band – Electric Lady Big Band (www.electricladybigband.bandcamp.com. CD review by Frank Griffith) To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s last studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968) guitarist, vocalist and […]
Richard Michael – Contemplation (Self-released. CD review by Fiona Mactaggart) Self-released on the occasion of Richard Michael’s 70th birthday, what a wonderful gift this solo double album is to himself, his family and […]
Mary Stallings – Songs Were Made To Sing (Smoke Sessions SSR-1903. CD review by Peter Vacher) Back in 1970, San Francisco-born vocalist Mary Stallings toured Britain with the Count Basie orchestra and […]
Liam Noble – The Long Game (Edition Records. CD Review by Jon Turney) How might Liam Noble follow up his brilliant, widely-praised piano trio release of 2009, Brubeck, in which he took a collection […]
Paul Booth – Travel Sketches (Ubuntu Music UBU0034. CD Review by Peter Jones) There is a calm, muscular authority in the playing of tenor saxophonist Paul Booth that makes it obvious why he […]
Marco Ambrosini’s Ensemble Supersonus – Resonances (ECM 776 3608. CD review by Peter Bacon) Looking for a timbral shift from the conventional instruments of jazz? Look no further. To listen to Ensemble […]
Tom Pierson Orchestra – Last Works (Auteur 3491/92. CD Review by Frank Griffith) Tom Pierson‘s Last Works CD presents an overview of 40 years of his big band music. A cast of […]
Barb Jungr – Bob, Brel and Me (Kristalyn KLCDO6/Absolute. CD Review by Richard Lee) Barb Jungr‘s readings of (as she’s put it herself) “the men she loves” (male songwriters in this context) […]
Röllin-Morgenthaler-Ruben – Mister Z (Between the Lines BTLOHR71248. CD Review by Alison Bentley) Jazz, funk, rock; guitar, trombone, drums. Röllin-Morgenthaler-Ruben strip away the layers of big band funk to reveal the clean […]
Daniel Erdmann’s Velvet Revolution – Won’t Put No Flag Out (BMC CD 282. CD review by Peter Slavid) The term “Chamber Jazz” is much overused, almost as much as as the word […]
Brian Kellock – Bidin’ My Time (Self-released (*). HHCD1. CD Review by Sebastian Scotney) “When it’s done properly, it does sound simple; sounds like anybody can do it,” the great American pianist […]
Eyal Lovett – Beyond Good and Evil (Berthold Records. CD review by Adrian Pallant) “I didn’t really mean to make this album”, Eyal Lovett declares on the sleeve of his latest release, Beyond Good and […]
Giovanni Guidi – Avec Le Temps (ECM 2604. CD review by Mike Collins) Giovanni Guidi has a string of ECM recordings under his belt, both as a sideman and as leader of his […]
Branford Marsalis Quartet – The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul (Marsalis Music 19075914032. CD review by Mike Collins) The latest release from Branford Marsalis, the first from his quartet as a […]
Pigfoot – Pigfoot Shuffle (Pokey Records PR001. CD Review by Jon Turney) Pigfoot, Chris Batchelor’s unfailingly entertaining quartet, play other people’s music, taking great tunes from wherever they fancy. New sets often feature […]
