“I like music that sounds as if it was sawed by a rusty saw,” says pianist Jason Moran. Ahead of his show with Archie Shepp on the opening night of the EFG […]
Kevin Brady (new album ‘Plan B’, Ubuntu Music; Irish tour Nov-Dec 2021)
Irish drummer and bandleader Kevin Brady has reinvented his acoustic trio as an electric quartet for a new album on Ubuntu Music, Plan B – with Seamus Blake, Dave Redmond and Bill […]
Kurt Elling – ‘SuperBlue’
Kurt Elling – SuperBlue (Edition EDN1174. Album Review by John Bungey) Kurt Elling has been busy turning himself into the male jazz vocalist of our times. In March he won his second […]
Mathias Eick – ‘When we leave’
Mathias Eick – When we leave (ECM 3856308. Album Review by John Bungey) Hard day at the home office? Stressed out by your yoga teacher’s bills? The work of Norwegian trumpeter Mathias […]
Buena Vista Social Club (25th Anniversary Edition)
Buena Vista Social Club (25th Anniversary Edition – 2LP + 2CD Deluxe Bookpack) (World Circuit. Album Review by John Bungey) It was the nostalgic celebration of a lost Cuba that found a […]
Patricia Barber – ‘Clique’
Patricia Barber – Clique (Impex. Album Review by John Bungey) It’s usual to start reviews in the UK of Patricia Barber by expressing bafflement as to why a jazz singer of the […]
Joshua Cavanagh-Brierley (new album ‘Joy in Bewilderment’)
“As well as being a jazz musician I play classical music and pop. I love it all, so why not include it?” John Bungey interviews Manchester-based composer and bassist Joshua Cavanagh-Brierley, a […]
Dave McMurray – ‘Grateful Deadication’
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 […]
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 […]
