Juan Carlos Quintero – Caminando (Moondo Music. Album review by John Arnett) This is a timely and thoroughly justified re-release of an album that originally came out in 1997 under the title […]
Juan Carlos Quintero – ‘Caminando’
Elliot Galvin and Laura Jurd (The Shape of Jazz to Come, streamed from Vortex)
Elliot Galvin and Laura Jurd(The Vortex. Streamed on 8 April 2021. Review by Patrick Hadfield) One of the few good things to come out of the global pandemic has been the accessibility […]
Nova – ‘The Anatomy of Bliss’
Nova – The Anatomy of Bliss (Nova Music. Album review by Rob Mallows) Can we ever truly know ourselves and the universe around us? The Danish physicist Niels Bohr – father of quantum […]
Michael Wolff – ‘Live at Vitellos’
Michael Wolff – Live at Vitellos (Sunnyside Records SSC1615. Album review by Len Weinreich) Some sketched background: New Orleans-born, Los Angeles-resident Michael Wolff is a pianist affected by Tourette’s Syndrome: “a common […]
Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Reveals List of 10 Grant Recipients
Berklee College in Boston has announced that 10 women have been awarded the Score Compilation Grant, which allows recipients to create digital collections of their scores in the Berklee Library. The grants […]
Thomas Strønen/Ayumi Tanaka/Marthe Lea – ‘Bayou’
Thomas Strønen/Ayumi Tanaka/Marthe Lea – Bayou (ECM 0724298. CD Review by John Bungey) Clamp on the headphones, kick the cat off the sofa, and settle down for a journey into the land […]
Alder Ego – ‘III’
Alder Ego – III (We Jazz Records WJLP31. Album Review by Peter Slavid) III is the third album from this young Finnish group, led by drummer Joonas Leppänen. He wrote the majority […]
Film – ‘Wilderness’ released today
Sebastian writes: A film which has picked up THIRTEEN different awards at film festivals, and which has very strong jazz connections is on release on digital platforms from today 5 April 2021. […]
10 tracks by Herbie Hancock I can’t do without… by Jon Opstad
The truth, writes Jon Opstad, is that I can’t do without Herbie Hancock’s entire discography. In bringing this list down to just ten recordings some very specific parameters were called for. So […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (14. ‘My Ship’, Andrew Cyrille and Maono, 1978)
The fourteenth of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), features David S Ware getting ready for take-off. I bought this LP at a memorably powerful gig in Manchester by the quartet. The […]
Petition to remove fines for bassists travelling on French Railways
There is a petition currently under way, seeking to put an end to the fixed penalty fine of EUR150 which is increasingly being levied on bassists travelling on trains in France with […]
Binker Golding / John Edwards / Steve Noble – ‘Moon Day’
Binker Golding, John Edwards, Steve Noble – Moon Day (Byrd Out Records BYR 303. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans.) Saxophonist Binker Golding became known on the jazz scene through his Binker & […]
New Organisation founded: Black Lives in Music (BLiM) + survey launched
A new organisation has been set up to address racial inequality in the music industry and create opportunities for Black musicians and professionals, writes Peter Slavid Peter Slavid writes: It may seem counter-intuitive […]
Wes Montgomery – ‘The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings’
Wes Montgomery – The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings (Jazzline Classics D77078. 1 CD +1 Blu-Ray DVD. Or Vinyl . Album review by Denny Ilett) It goes without saying that any new release […]
Theo Walentiny – ‘Looking Glass’
Theo Walentiny – Looking Glass (Available from Bandcamp . Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The pandemic has led, perhaps unsurprisingly, to a significant increase in the number of solo piano albums. […]
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