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 […]
Dave McMurray – ‘Grateful Deadication’
Nina Simone – ‘The Montreux Years’
Nina Simone – The Montreux Years (BMG 4050538631241. Album review by John Bungey) If you were whiling away the summer in Switzerland in the late 20th century, which was the year to […]
Obed Calvaire, Bob Franceschini, Kevin Hays & Orlando Le Fleming – ‘Whole Lotta Love: The Music of Led Zeppelin’
Obed Calvaire, Bob Franceschini, Kevin Hays & Orlando Le Fleming – Whole Lotta Love: The Music of Led Zeppelin (Chesky Records. Album review by John Bungey) Jazz Led Zeppelin? Was this a […]
Julian Lage – ‘Squint’
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 […]
Music wars on Valentine’s Day: when your partner hates your record collection…
What if your partner can’t stand some, or all, of your favourite music? House arrest over lockdown has surely made the problem worse for couples forced to share the domestic sound system. […]
Soft Works – ‘Abracadabra in Osaka’ (rec. 2003)
Soft Works – Abracadabra in Osaka Recorded live at Namba Hatch, Osaka, Japan, 11 August 2003 (MoonJune MJR 112. CD Review by John Bungey) To my knowledge no one has ever made […]
King Crimson – ‘The Complete 1969 Recordings’
King Crimson – The Complete 1969 Recordings(Panegyric. CD review by John Bungey) Let’s time-travel back five decades to an era when jazz music and rock music fused in a febrile collision of […]
Gabriel Latchin: ‘I’ll Be Home For Christmas’
Gabriel Latchin has a track which has reached nine million plays on Spotify. After the success of a Christmas concert last year, the pianist, who has rapidly become a fixture on the […]
Dinosaur at Kings Place (2020 EFG LJF)
Dinosaur (Livestreamed from Kings Place, EFG London Jazz Festival 15 November 2020. Review by John Bungey) As an emergency new medium, the online-only gig has yet to reach perfection. When Dinosaur ended […]
Keith Jarrett – “Budapest Concert”
Keith Jarrett – Budapest Concert (ECM Records 0730194. CD Review by John Bungey) The disclosure by the 75-year-old pianist this week [Oct 21] that a pair of strokes in 2018 may well […]
Melody Gardot – “Sunset in the Blue”
Melody Gardot – Sunset in the Blue (released 23 October)(Decca. CD review by John Bungey) Well this is a surprise. You may have heard the radio-friendly single Little Something that the American […]
John Helliwell – “Ever Open Door”
John Helliwell – Ever Open Door (Challenge Records CR73511. CD Review by John Bungey) When you’ve spent a good part of your career schlepping round the world’s enormodomes with those giants of […]
Django Bates – “Tenacity”
Django Bates – Tenacity (released 2 October) (Lost Marble. Review by John Bungey) At school in Lewisham, Django Bates was a Charlie Parker fan, which must have been a lonely pursuit in […]
Blue Note Re:Imagined
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 […]
Miles Davis – “The Lost Septet” (from 1971)
Miles Davis – The Lost Septet (Sleepy Night SNRCD013. CD Review by John Bungey) It’s 5 November 1971, and what sort of a night were fans at the Vienna Konzerthaus expecting from […]
