Chris Biscoe – Music Is: Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook (Trio Records tr607. Album review by Jane Mann) This new release is the first that I have come across devoted entirely to […]
Chris Biscoe – ‘Music Is: Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook’
Jim Rattigan at Pizza Express Dean Street (‘When’ Album Tour)
Jim Rattigan (Pizza Express Jazz Club. 8 January 2022. Review by Lavender Sutton) The niche-ness of jazz French horn might perplex some, but Jim Rattigan has been championing it for over 20 […]
Radiohead – ‘Kid A’ / Rick Simpson – ‘Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited’
Rick Simpson – Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited (Whirlwind WR4765. Review-Essay by AJ Dehany) Part One: Radiohead Radiohead… National treasure and/or failed dance act, the groundbreaking Oxford group founded […]
Josephine Davies – “Satori: How Can We Wake?”
Josephine Davies – Satori: How Can We Wake? (Whirlwind WR4764. CD review by Jon Turney) It’s usual to observe that a saxophone trio is an exposed format for the horn player – and […]
Paul Booth – Travel Sketches
Paul Booth – Travel Sketches (Ubuntu Music UBU0034. CD Review by Peter Jones) There is a calm, muscular authority in the playing of tenor saxophonist Paul Booth that makes it obvious why he […]
Paul Booth Quartet (Travel Sketches album launch) at Pizza Express
Paul Booth Quartet (Travel Sketches album launch) (Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, 27 August 2019. Review by Dominic Williams) On the hottest of nights, the coolest of jazz. Tenor saxophonist Paul Booth’s […]
