Coma World – Coma World (Byrd Out Records BYR028. Review by Graham Spry) Coma World, the new album by the eponymous Coma World duo, was inspired by the recollections of a friend […]
Coma World – ‘Coma World’
Ron Mathewson – ‘Memorial’ (Recordings from 1968-1976)
Ron Mathewson – Memorial (Jazz in Britain JIB 17-S-DL. Album review by Liam Noble) So this is a review. I’ve never really thought about that word, what it means specifically, until now. Should […]
Gabriel Vicéns – ‘The Way We Are Created’
Gabriel Vicéns – The Way We Are Created (Inner Circle Music INCM 094. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Gabriel Vicéns is a Puerto Rican guitarist now resident in New York, and The Way […]
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & The MaXx – ‘Live’
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & The MaXx – Live (MNJ Records MNJ002. Review by Peter Slavid) I have to admit I was always going to be favourably predisposed towards a big-band album with […]
Tenderlonious – ‘Ragas from Lahore: Improvisations with Jaubi’
Tenderlonious – Ragas from Lahore: Improvisations with Jaubi (22a Records 22a038, LP/CD/digital. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Jazz musicians have rarely intersected with classical Indian and Pakistani music, but when they do they […]
Tamil Rogeon – ‘Son Of Nyx’
Tamil Rogeon – Son Of Nyx (Soul Bank Music SBM001CD. CD review by Peter Jones) Viola players can be a pretty modest bunch, full of self-deprecation and apology for not being violinists. […]
Charles Mingus – ‘@ Bremen 1964 & 1975’
Charles Mingus – @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside SSC1570. CD Review by Olie Brice) A fascinating look at two of Charles Mingus’ greatest bands, recorded by the same radio station in […]
Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band – ‘Jackets XL’
Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band – Jackets XL(Mack Avenue MAC1175. CD review by Peter Bacon) The classy Cologne-based jazz orchestra has made many fine albums with illustrious guests but this one with the […]
Patrick Cornelius’ Acadia – ‘Way of the Cairns’
Patrick Cornelius’ Acadia – Way of the Cairns (Whirlwind Recordings WR4766. CD review by Alison Bentley) Stone cairns mark where you’ve been on the trail, and remind you of where others have […]
Radiohead – ‘Kid A’ / Rick Simpson – ‘Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited’
Rick Simpson – Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited (Whirlwind WR4765. Review-Essay by AJ Dehany) Part One: Radiohead Radiohead… National treasure and/or failed dance act, the groundbreaking Oxford group founded […]
King Crimson – ‘The Complete 1969 Recordings’
King Crimson – The Complete 1969 Recordings(Panegyric. CD review by John Bungey) Let’s time-travel back five decades to an era when jazz music and rock music fused in a febrile collision of […]
Michael Wollny – ‘Mondenkind’
Michael Wollny – Mondenkind(ACT 9765-2. CD review by Mike Collins) The far side of the moon is a traditional source of mystery. When it was visible to Apollo 11 as it orbited […]
Lucia Cadotsch – ‘Speak Low II’
Lucia Cadotsch – Speak Low II (We Jazz Records. CD review by Jon Turney) Swiss vocalist Lucia Cadotsch delivers the least ornamented treatments of songs you may ever hear. Like a writing […]
Golden Age of Steam – ‘Tomato Brain’
Golden Age of Steam – Tomato Brain (NOISE Records LTNO 13. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The music of James Allsopp’s Golden Age of Steam has been described as ‘abstract electronica meets radical […]
James Hamilton Jazz Orchestra – ‘Yorkshire Suite’
James Hamilton Jazz Orchestra – Yorkshire Suite (New Jazz Records. Review by Adrian Pallant) The premise of this live recording is heartwarming, and should be to anyone with an interest in the […]
