Mammal Hands – Gift From The Trees (Release date 31 March 2023)(Gondwana Records. Album review by Rob Mallows) With a track record in mixing jazz sensibilities with elements of trance, ambient music […]
Mammal Hands – Gift From The Trees
Christine Tobin – ‘Returning Weather’
Christine Tobin – Returning Weather (Trail Belle Records TBR05. Review by AJ Dehany) Returning Weather is Irish composer-singer Christine Tobin’s nine-part meditation on the nature of home and homecoming. This fine evocative […]
Elton Dean, Steve Miller & Pip Pyle – ‘Home Brewed’ (Rec. 1976)
Elton Dean, Steve Miller & Pip Pyle – Home Brewed (British Progressive Jazz. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) The aptly named British Progressive Jazz label has released this previously unavailable recording from […]
Alessio Menconi/Nigel Price Quartet – ‘Live At Peggy’s Skylight’
Alessio Menconi/Nigel Price Quartet – Live At Peggy’s Skylight (Nervy Nigel Records NERVYCD003. Album review by Mark McKergow) This superb live performance brings together two titans of European jazz guitar for a […]
Jim Snidero, feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel – ‘Far Far Away’
-Jim Snidero, feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel, w/ Orrin Evans, Joe Farnsworth & Peter Washington – Far Far Away (Savant Records SCD2207. Album Review by Richard Lee) Here’s an album of great virtuosity, pitch-and-beat-perfect […]
Tim Garland and Jason Rebello – ‘Life to Life’
Tim Garland and Jason Rebello – Life to Life (Whirlwind Recordings – WR4799. Album review by Jon Turney) Duos don’t come better matched than this partnership. Tim Garland and Jason Rebello have […]
John Wheatcroft – ‘First Light’
John Wheatcroft – First Light (Self-released. Album review by Nigel Price) It’s long been known that there’s an amazing guitarist lurking in Liverpool by the name of John Wheatcroft. We don’t hear […]
Mette Henriette – ‘Drifting’
Mette Henriette – Drifting (ECM Records – ECM 2766. Album review by Graham Spry) It was in 2014 Sami-Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette recorded her debut album in Oslo for ECM (review link […]
Paul Towndrow – ‘Outwith The Circle’
Paul Towndrow – Outwith The Circle (Keywork Records KWRCD015 – CD review by Mark McKergow) After 2021’s epic large-group work Deepening The River, saxophonist, composer and arranger Paul Towndrow is back with […]
Peter Bruun, Søren Kjærgaard and Jonas Westergaard – ‘Thēsaurōs’
Peter Bruun, Søren Kjærgaard and Jonas Westergaard – Thēsaurōs (ILK341LP/ Album review by AJ Dehany) Thēsaurōs is a cathedral of sound with the architectural mastery of Wren, the mystical suggestiveness of Hawksmoor, […]
Sam Gendel – COOKUP
Sam Gendel – COOKUP (Nonesuch Records 7559790713. Album review by AJ Dehany) COOKUP, the latest batch from Sam Gendel, prolific multi-instrumentalist majoring in ‘saxofone’, is a microwave meal of an album that […]
Joe Locke – ‘Makram’
Joe Locke – Makram (Circle 9 Records. Album review by Gareth Thomas) Makram is the latest studio album from pioneering American vibraphonist Joe Locke, whose extensive discography stretching back to the late […]
Lucinda Williams – ‘Ramblin’ ‘
Lucinda Williams – Ramblin’ (Floating World Records FLOATLP6019. Album review by Bruce Lindsay) Back in 1979, a 26-year-old Louisiana-born singer released her debut album on Folkways Records. The album was called Ramblin’ […]
Louis Stewart – ‘Out On His Own’
Louis Stewart- Out On His Own (Livia Records. Album review by Adam Sieff) There’s no doubt that Louis Stewart (1944-2016) ranks among the finest jazz guitar players, just ask one and they’ll […]
Nick Walters – ‘Padmāsana’
Nick Walters – Padmāsana (D.O.T Records. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Padmāsana has been put together by Nick Walters, a trumpeter known for his work with his own The Paradox Ensemble and […]
