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 […]
Dinosaur at Kings Place (2020 EFG LJF)
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 […]
Jacob Collier – “Djesse Vol. 3”
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 3 (Hajanga Records. CD review by John Bungey) First a warning: if your musical life is saturated in Coleman’s harmolodics or Coltrane’s sheets of sound, best stop […]
Bill Frisell – “Valentine”
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, […]
Dan Waldman (new release “Sources & Angles”)
UK Guitarist Dan Waldman has just released his debut album as leader Sources & Angles, which reflects the time he spent learning his trade in New York’s West Village. John Bungey tells […]
Greg Foat – “Symphonie Pacifique”
Greg Foat – Symphonie Pacifique (Strut Records. CD Review by John Bungey) Jazz is of course not normally the domain of symphonies, pacifique or otherwise. There’s certainly a grandness to some of […]
Trey Gunn – “Punkt1” and “Firma (96k)”
Trey Gunn – Punkt1 and Firma (96k) (7dmedia.com. CD reviews by John Bungey) This music “will punish casual listening”, warns the heroically named Trey Gunn. So no, you shouldn’t be cueing up […]
Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens – “In Common 2”
Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens – In Common 2(Whirlwind WR4728. CD Review by John Bungey) First, if you’re a lover of the noble art of album cover design, a word of […]
