Gerald Clayton – Bells on Sand(Blue Note B00349380. CD review by Mike Collins) Gerald Clayton’s second release for Blue Note speaks quietly and thoughtfully. He includes the listener in intimate dialogues and luminous accounts […]
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note. Album Review by Adam Sieff) This really is quite a find. In early 1961 a […]
Dave McMurray – Grateful Deadication (Blue Note. Album review by John Bungey) A jazz saxophonist playing Grateful Dead tunes? We’ve been here before – during the band’s life such illustrious hornmen as […]
Julian Lage – Squint(Blue Note. Album review by John Bungey) If your local jazz club had a huge whip-round or received a vast council grant (OK I’m dreaming), who would you want […]
Various artists – Blue Note Re:Imagined (Decca 890927. Review by John Bungey) Ah, Blue Note – hallowed home of hard bop, trove of smokin’ classics by Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard […]
Artemis – Artemis (Blue Note 00602508937385. CD review by Alison Bentley) Seven award-winning bandleaders, who also compose/arrange, make up Artemis – and they all just happen to be women. They were brought […]
Bill Frisell – Valentine (Blue Note. Review by John Bungey) Avant-garde axe shredder, ECM sound painter, Buster Keaton-soundtrack composer? Which Bill Frisell will turn up on the new album Valentine? In fact, […]
Ambrose Akinmusire – on the tender spot of every calloused moment(Blue Note 0892619. Download review by Patrick Hadfield) Ambrose Akinmusire makes music that seems full of contradictions and yet is whole, consistent […]
Everybody sings on Bill Frisell’s new album HARMONY by the band of the same name… but this being Bill Frisell, everyone sings in their own way, of course. Ahead of the band’s […]
