Alan Barnes – + Eleven (Woodville Records WVCD151 – CD review by Mark McKergow) Reeds maestro Alan Barnes celebrates his 60th birthday in vintage style with this collection of tunes from his […]
Alan Barnes – + Eleven
John Etheridge – TWENTY: the best of Sweet Chorus
John Etheridge – TWENTY: the best of Sweet Chorus (DY30 – CD review by Mark McKergow) This delightfully swinging collection of tracks is a fitting celebration of 20 years of Sweet Chorus, […]
Zhenya Strigalev & Federico Dannemann – The Change
Zhenya Strigalev & Federico Dannemann – The Change (Rainy Days Records. CD review by Fiona Mactaggart) The album title, The Change, is apt. After a decade based in London where he has gained […]
Mark Lockheart & Roger Sayer – Salvator Mundi
Mark Lockheart & Roger Sayer – Salvator Mundi (Edition Records EDN1132. CD review by Adrian Pallant) The power of music, to move and transport us in very personal and sometimes surprising directions, […]
Miguel Gorodi Nonet – Apophenia
Miguel Gorodi Nonet – Apophenia (Ubuntu Music. UBU0021. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Trumpeter Miguel Gorodi has put together a biggish band of some of the most interesting musicians on the London […]
Larry Fuller – Overjoyed
Larry Fuller – Overjoyed (Capri 74155-2. CD review by Peter Vacher) American pianist Larry Fuller attracted early attention after acting as accompanist and MD to the singer Ernestine Anderson for six years […]
Babelfish – Once Upon a Tide
Babelfish – Once Upon a Tide (Moletone 007. CD Review by Alison Bentley) When is the best time to record a new album? Babelfish waited till the end of their 2018 UK […]
Avishai Cohen – Arvoles
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. […]
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 […]
