Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly Of Shadows – Assembly of Shadows (SoundSpore Records. Review by Adam Sieff) I generally shy away from jazz orchestras. I know, my loss. But this album has completely […]
Johnny Griffin and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis – Ow! Live At The Penthouse (Reel To Real RTRCD003 – CD review by Mark McKergow) The two tenor saxophones of Johnny Griffin and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ […]
Fat-Suit – Waifs & Strays (Equinox EQX006CD. CD Review by Rob Adams) The fourth album from Glasgow jazz-funk-folk collective Fat-Suit witnesses a significant stride forward in terms of composition as well as […]
Cross Currents Trio – Good Hope (Edition Records EDN1136. CD Review by Jon Turney) A little late to reviewing this one, but for a good reason: It’s one of those recordings I kept postponing […]
Karen Marshalsay – The Road to Kennacraig (Cramasie Records. CRCD001. CD review by Patrick Hadfield) The road to Kennacraig is the road to Islay, where Karen Marshalsay wrote the tune the gives […]
Van Morrison – Three Chords And The Truth (Exile/Caroline. CD review by Adam Sieff) Here’s Van Morrison at 74, a hard working man with a busy tour schedule releasing his sixth album in […]
Gradischnig/Fishwick/Raible/Antoniou/Home – Mo Is On: The Music of Elmo Hope Vol 2 (Trio Records TR604. CD review by Leonard Weinreich) Jazz is haunted by tragic ghosts: giants like Bix, Christian, Blanton, Bird and […]
e.s.t. – e.s.t. live in Gothenburg (ACT Music ACT 9046-2. CD review by Adrian Pallant) What more can be said, what more can be heard of a band who, between 1993 and 2008, […]
Rich Perry – Other Matters (SteepleChase SCCD 31876. CD Review by Frank Griffith) Other Matters is tenor saxophonist Rich Perry‘s 25th release for Steeplechase, a label which he has been recording with […]
Marc Copland Trio – And I Love Her (Illusions Mirage IM4004. CD review by Mike Collins) In a recording studio somewhere, the drummer drops into a groove: a ghost of a backbeat; a […]
