Dhafer Youssef – Streets of Minarets (Back Beat Edition – Album review by Graham Spry) Over the last two decades, Dhafer Youssef has been one of Europe’s most reliably intriguing and innovative […]
Dhafer Youssef – ‘Streets of Minarets’
Tom Skinner – ‘Voices of Bishara’
Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara (Brownswood Recordings BWOOD0257CD. Album review by Graham Spry) Drummer Tom Skinner has been a significant force in British jazz for over a decade. He first came […]
The W (Bruno Heinen, Gene Calderazzo, Andrea Di Biase, Heidi Vogel) – ‘Portrait’
The W – Portrait (Ubuntu Music. Album review by Graham Spry) For his first full-length studio album for Ubuntu Music, Portrait, London-based pianist and composer Bruno Heinen has gathered together a truly […]
Gaye Su Akyol – ‘Anadolu Ejderi’
Gaye Su Akyol – Anadolu Ejderi(Glitterbeat Records – GBCD 137 Review by Graham Spry) Francesco Martinelli’s recent accounts on this site of the 32nd Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul showed the Turkish jazz […]
Camilla George – ‘Ibio-Ibio’
Camilla George – Ibio-Ibio (K7/ Ever Records – EVER102CD. Review by Graham Spry) So much of the vibrant young London Jazz scene owes a huge debt to Tomorrow’s Warriors, not only in […]
Mark Guiliana – ‘the sound of listening’
Mark Guiliana – the sound of listening (Edition Records – EDN1210 Review by Graham Spry) One small benefit of the unscheduled leisure time brought about by the lockdown was the opportunity musicians […]
Julia Hülsmann Quartet – “The Next Door”
Julia Hülsmann Quartet – The Next Door(ECM Records. Review by Graham Spry) Since the release of her remarkable debut album, The End of a Summer, on ECM Records in 2008, a new […]
Shabaka – ‘Afrikan Culture’
Shabaka – Afrikan Culture (Impulse Records – digital release only. Review by Graham Spry) Whereas Shabaka (Shabaka Hutchings) has been called the “young forefather” and the “figurehead” of a whole generation of […]
Alabaster DePlume – ‘GOLD’
Alabaster DePlume – GOLD (International Anthem– IARC0050. Review by Graham Spry) When the album To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 was released in early 2020 on Chicago-based International Anthem label, by […]
Ronan Perrett Trio – ‘Who Owns the Sky?’
Ronan Perrett Trio – Who Owns the Sky? (Fresh Sound New Talent – FSNT 634. CD review by Graham Spry) Cornish-born and London-based alto saxophonist Ronan Perrett has been an active member […]
Fergus McCreadie – ‘Forest Floor’
Fergus McCreadie – Forest Floor (Edition Records – EDN1197 review by Graham Spry) This third release from Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie, Forest Floor is a wonderful album inspired by Scotland’s unique landscape which is both craggy […]
Mark Turner – ‘Return from the Stars’
Mark Turner – Return from the Stars (ECM Records, ECM 2684. Review by Graham Spry) The great California-born tenor saxophonist Mark Turner once again gives free rein to his passion for the […]
Mark Lockheart – ‘Dreamers’
Mark Lockheart – Dreamers (Edition Records, EDN1195. Review by Graham Spry) Mark Lockheart is a saxophonist and composer who first entered national consciousness in the 1980s with Loose Tubes, and was later […]
Jorge Rossy, Robert Landfermann, Jeff Ballard – ‘Puerta’
Jorge Rossy, Robert Landfermann, Jeff Ballard – Puerta (ECM Records 2661. Album review by Graham Spry) Jorge Rossy is a familiar name to those who have followed the career of Brad Mehldau, […]
Alex Hitchcock – ‘dream band’
Alex Hitchcock – dream band (Fresh Sound New Talent FSNT 625. Album review by Graham Spry) It is a tribute to tenor saxophonist Alex Hitchcock that he has become a respected name […]
