Avishai Cohen – Arvoles (Rough Trade. 0190296901881. Review by Dick Hovenga*) Arvoles brings bassist Avishai Cohen back to jazz after an excursion into pop with 1970, the album he released last year. […]
Avishai Cohen – Arvoles
Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella & Eivind Aarset – Lost River
Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella & Eivind Aarset – Lost River (ECM 774 5607. CD review by Peter Bacon) On What Floats Beneath (track three on this disc released at the end of […]
Zoe Francis with Jim Mullen and Ross Stanley – Blue Town
Zoe Francis with Jim Mullen and Ross Stanley – Blue Town (Zoe Francis Records. CD Review by Brian Blain) No one makes a fortune accompanying UK jazz singers, so the fact that […]
Judy Niemack – Blue Nights & In The Sundance
Judy Niemack – Blue Nights; In The Sundance (Blujazz, 2007; 2009. Review by Frank Griffith) This brace of CDs from a decade back by jazz vocalist Judy Niemack (The Pheasantry, 4 & 5 July) forms […]
George Cables (with Essiet Essiet and Victor Lewis) – I’m All Smiles
George Cables (with Essiet Essiet and Victor Lewis) – I’m All Smiles (HighNote Records HCD 7322. CD Review by Sebastian Scotney) It is probably wrong to be completely swayed by the positive […]
Wes Montgomery – Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings
Wes Montgomery – Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings (Resonance Recordings. HCD2036. CD Review by Mike Rud*) Wes Montgomery’s music swings… and shines, bounces, delights and comforts. His is a […]
Apollo and Artvark – Collide and Merge
Apollo and Artvark – Collide and Merge (Oink Records. CD review by Rob Adams) It was, if I remember correctly, the estimable 29th Street Saxophone Quartet who expressed a wish to have […]
Keith Tippett – The Unlonely Raindancer
Keith Tippett – The Unlonely Raindancer (Discus 81CD – CD review by Mark McKergow) This first-time-on-CD reissue of Keith Tippett’s first solo piano recordings from 1979 is an important reminder of his […]
Joey DeFrancesco – In the Key of the Universe
Joey DeFrancesco – In the Key of the Universe (Mack Avenue 1147. CD Review by Peter Jones) Playing in a band with Hank Mobley and Philly Joe Jones at age 10, awarded […]
Norma Winstone & John Taylor – In Concert
Norma Winstone & John Taylor – In Concert (Enodoc Records. ENOCD005. CD Review by Alison Bentley) The scene – a hall filled with young jazz musicians, eager to hear two of their […]
