Guitarist, composer and educator Mike Rud won a Juno award in 2014 for his album Notes from Montreal. Mike has a new two guitars/bass/drums album out: Salome’s Dance – The Mike Rud […]
Tom Taylor and Matthew Herd – First Light (Bandcamp (LINK) . Album (download) review by Sam Norris) It’s impossible that London-based pianist and composer Tom Taylor could have known about the unusual […]
Chip Wickham – Blue To Red (Lovemonk LMNK66LP LP, CD & Digital. Album review by Adam Sieff) On a sweltering evening during last summer’s heat wave, I was walking through Soho and heard […]
Malcolm Strachan – About Time (Haggis Records HRCD004. CD Review by Peter Jones) One of the many pleasures of this new CD from trumpeter Malcolm Strachan is its unashamedly slick, commercial feel. Some […]
Composer, sax and flute player, and record label founder Kevin Figes talks to us about the music and people who helped shape him and the ways he’s getting creative in lockdown… First […]
Composer, guitarist and current BBC New Generation artist Rob Luft recently released his second album, Life Is The Dancer. We catch up with him about releasing an album under lockdown, learning new […]
New York-born, California-based trumpeter and film composer Mark Isham has done the scores for over 400 movies and TV shows. He is involved, alongside Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and the UK’s Jive […]
John Fordham pays tribute to Tony Allen. Of all the popular sounds of the 20th century fired up by the spontaneity and rhythmic creativity of jazz, Afrobeat’s morphing of that music into […]
Alexander Hawkins/Tomeka Reid – Shards and Constellations(Intakt Records CD344. CD review by Fiona Mactaggart) The vivid memory of a white-robed Cecil Taylor darting crab-style across a concert hall stage and then delivering […]
Antti Lötjönen – Quintet East (We Jazz WJLP22. CD Review by Jon Turney) Finnish bassist Antti Lötjönen is not a man to rush into anything. A veteran of 100 recordings, this CD […]
Keith Oxman – Two Cigarettes In The Dark (Capri 74161-2. CD review by Peter Vacher) Tenor saxophonist Keith Oxman is a new name to me but not to Capri Records, for this […]
Guitarist Nigel Price is normally one of the busiest musicians on the UK scene. Which made us particularly interested to read his lockdown Q&A… First album you purchased as a “jazz musician”? […]
The Karuna Trio – Imaginary Archipelago (Metarecords Meta 024. CD Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The imaginary archipelago of this album title is an area of ‘high mountains and dense forests, warm deserts […]
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – Black, Brown and Beige (Blue Engine Records. BE0024. Download Review by Patrick Hadfield) Duke Ellington played the complete Black, Brown and Beige only twice: […]
John Law’s Congregation – Configuration (Ubuntu Music UBU0036. CD review by Adrian Pallant) It’s a privilege to track the evolution of a musician’s career over many years, especially when, like pianist John […]
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