Max de Wardener, Music for Detuned Pianos, performed by Kit Downes (Village Green: vinyl VGLP063, CD VGCD063. LP/CD Review by Geoff Winston) Music for Detuned Pianos is deceptively simple. This thoughtful, meditative, […]
Alfa Mist – On My Ones (Sekito SEKITO007. Download/Vinyl Album Review by Adam Sieff) This release comes as something of a surprise, but maybe it shouldn’t have. As a keyboardist and producer, […]
The Vinyl Detective – Classic Jazz Tracks curated by Andrew Cartmel (Vinyl Passion VP 90129. LP Review by Peter Jones) It had been a quiet day at the office. I’d let my […]
Jamie Saft Quartet – Hidden Corners (Rare Noise Records RNR0109 – CD/LP review by Mark McKergow) Prolific New York keyboardist and composer Jamie Saft hits the decks (and the CD player) with […]
Mark Turner Meets Gary Foster (Capri Records 74156-2. 2 CDs or LPs. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What a remarkable album. There has been a danger that in the process of researching it […]
Abdullah Ibrahim – The Balance (Gearbox Records GB1554. LP Review by Sebastian Scotney) The Balance is the first album that Abdullah Ibrahim has recorded in his 80s – he is now 84. […]
Ilmiliekki Quartet – Land Of Real Men (We Jazz, WJLP13. Review by Dick Hovenga(*)) With Land Of Real Men, Ilmilieki Quartet (meaning quartet ablaze), the Finnish band that started in 2002 and […]
Bagland – Cirkel (Jaegwer Community: JCM029. LP Review by Nick Davies) Cirkel is the third release from the Danish quintet Bagland and is available on vinyl, MP3 and CD. It follows on […]
Steve Fishwick/Alex Garnett Quartet – Marshian Time Slip(Hard Bop Records HBR33011. LP review by Peter Jones)Serendipity plays a major part in jazz, because improvisation is needed in all kinds of situations – […]
Kansas Smitty’s House Band – Broadway 2018(Kansas Smitty’s. LP/download Review by Mark McKergow)Kansas Smitty’s House Band burst forth once again from their cellar bar headquarters in Hackney’s Broadway Market with a year-ending […]
Eric Dolphy – Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions(Resonance Records vinyl limited edition with booklet. LP review by Geoff Winston)This three-LP vinyl set, drawn from the full Eric Dolphy […]
Benjamin Wallfisch – King of Thieves Soundtrack(Milan Music 398 115-2. LP Review by Peter Jones)If, like me, you love the classic 60s/70s film soundtracks of Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini, John Barry and […]
Erroll Garner – Nightconcert(Mack Avenue MAC1142LP. LP Review by Peter Jones)Let us now praise Gretchen Carhartt Valade, boss of the Carhartt workwear company and founder nearly 20 years ago of Detroit’s Mack […]
Stuart McCallum – Solitude(Edition Records EDN1110. EP Review by Peter Jones)Fans of the guitarist Martin Taylor, and anyone who liked Pat Metheny’s 2003 album One Quiet Night, would certainly enjoy this new […]
Steve Cardenas – Charlie & Paul (Newvelle Records NV013LP. LP review by Geoff Winston) “This was not the street and its endless, hurried footsteps, the mayhem of broken lines, but instead the […]
