Le Rex – Escape Of The Fire Ants(Cuneiform Records Rune 464. Review by Peter Slavid) The Washington DC based label Cuneiform has championed avant-garde jazz, prog-rock and generally “difficult” music for over […]
Animal Society – Rise(Available from Bandcamp. Download Review by Patrick Hadfield) Animal Society is a new band led by guitarist Joe Williamson, winner of 2018’s Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year. […]
Nick Weldon – Eleven Flames(Verge 007CD. CD Review by Brian Blain) It is quite a few years since I heard Nick Weldon‘s fluent, percussive, classically bop-influenced piano on those two excellent Steve […]
Graham Costello’s STRATA – Obelisk(Self-release on Bandcamp and CD. Review by Rob Adams) Drummer Graham Costello’s STRATA is a collective with strong connections to the jazz course at the Royal Conservatoire of […]
Tom Bancroft’s In Common – Love & Stillness(Interrupto Music IM008 – CD review by Mark McKergow)Drummer and composer Tom Bancroft has developed a fascinating cross-cultural project drawing on jazz, Indian classical and […]
Martin Ptak – River Tales (col legno WWE1CD20441. CD Review by AJ Dehany) River Tales is an instrumental song sequence onomatopoeically embodying the force and flow of the Danube. Throughout its allusive, alluvial […]
Bill Evans – Evans in England (Resonance Records. HCD-2037. CD Review by Liam Noble. Relationships are strange. I had one with Bill Evans, it went from fascination, to a kind of canonization, […]
Mike Westbrook Orchestra – Catania: Live in Sicily 1992(Westbrook Records WR004 – 2 CD set. Review by Mark McKergow) This previously unreleased double CD takes us back to a series of Mike Westbrook […]
Roger Beaujolais Italian Trio – Barba Lunga(Stay Tuned ST011 – CD review by Mark McKergow) Roger Beaujolais’ latest outing sees him joined by a dynamic new Italian duo who urge him on […]
Fragments – Fragments(Northern Contemporary – nc003. CD review by Adrian Pallant)Free improvisation has long intrigued me; partly for the certain discovery of the unexpected and unknown, but also for its ability to […]
