Multiple artists – Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre (released 17 Feb)(Blue Note 4536398. Album review by Dan Bergsagel) Blue Note doesn’t often release work from another record label, but Transmissions from Total Refreshment […]
Chris Potter – Got the Keys to the Kingdom: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition EDN1214. Album review by Jon Turney) Another outstanding record to add to the long list of live […]
Wild Card – Cabin 19 Fever (Top End Records TER0006CD. Album review by Bruce Lindsay) As a long-term unit, Wild Card’s heart is the trio of writer, arranger and guitarist Clément Régert, […]
Haftor Medbøe and Konrad Wiszniewski – Poiesis (Subcontinental Records 2023. Album review by Fiona Mactaggart) Evoking Stephan Micus’ spacious and rich music, this entirely improvised album from Haftor Medbøe (guitar and effects) […]
Sebastian Rochford – A Short Diary (ECM 2749. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) Sebastian Rochford is perhaps best known for having been the driving force behind the iconoclastic band Polar Bear; his […]
Hubert Dupont – Trio Aurore (Ultrabolic. Album review by Peter Slavid) Hubert Dupont is a French bass player who came late to jazz after graduating initially as an engineer. No doubt that […]
Kaja Draksler / Susana Santos Silva – ‘Grow’ (Intakt CD 391/2022. Album review by Jon Carvell) Recorded live at the 2021 Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Grow is the second album from Portuguese trumpeter […]
Amália Baraona – Everyday, a Little Love (Intek Music. Available from Bandcamp. Album review by Alison Bentley) Portuguese singer Amália Baraona grew up in Brazil listening to Bossa Nova. She’s put together […]
Francisco Mela with William Parker and Cooper-Moore: Music Frees Our Souls Vol. 2 (577 Records. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Francisco Mela is a Cuban drummer based in the USA who joined McCoy […]
Moss Freed & Union Division: Micromotives (Discus CD147. Also mentioned is the album launch Vortex Jazz Club 25 January. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans In his very informative notes on the CD […]
Jo Lawry – Acrobats(Whirlwind Recordings WR4798. Album review by Paul Kelly) Well here’s a surprise! Australian-born Jo Lawry is best known as a singer with Sting (‘backing singer’ rather under-rates her role I […]
Bill Laurance & Michael League – Where You Wish You Were (ACT ACT 9961-2. Album review by Rob Mallows) For a duo album by two of the most prominent members of jazz […]
Reiner Witzel, Richie Beirach, Alex Sipiagin, Joscha Oetz & Tobias Frohnhöfer – The World Within (Jazzsick Records 5165 JS – album review by Charles Rees) If German saxophonist Reiner Witzel is known […]
Nora Kamm – ONE (Duya Music DUYA101 – CD review by Mark McKergow) Saxophonist, flautist, vocalist and composer Nora Kamm’s solo debut album is a revelation – packed with jazz, African and […]
Rich Perry – Everything Happens (Steeplechase, SCCD 31937. Album review by Frank Griffith) Veteran NYC saxophonist Rich Perry‘s 2022 CD Everything Happens showcases equally his talents and abilities as composer and player. […]
