Kevin Figes – Wallpaper Music Pig Records, PIG11 (CD review by Mike Collins) Wallpaper Music, released at the end of 2021, is a tour-de-force from multi-instrumentalist and composer Kevin Figes, conjuring a […]
Kevin Figes – ‘Wallpaper Music’
Chris Laurence – ‘Kenny Wheeler: Some Gnu Ones’
Chris Laurence – Kenny Wheeler: Some Gnu Ones (Jazz In Britain, JIB-29-S-Cd. Album review by Mike Collins) There are many remarkable things about the this release by Chris Laurence, but quite properly […]
Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra at Pizza Express Soho (EFG LJF 2021)
Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra(Pizza Express Soho. 21 November 2021. EFG LJF. Review by Mike Collins) The Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra in full flight is a thing to behold. Often, as a solo […]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio – ‘En attendant’
Marcin Wasilewski Trio – En attendant (ECM 2677. CD review by Mike Collins) It’s twenty years since the Marcin Wasilewski Trio debuted with ECM, on the first of a series of albums […]
Tim Richards and MusicGurus – ‘Beginning Jazz Piano’ (interactive course of lessons)
Pianist and composer Tim Richards has been performing and composing for bands on the British jazz scene for well over 30 years. Parallel to the journey as a working musician has been […]
Noah Haidu ft. Buster Williams, Billy Hart – ‘Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett’
Noah Haidu ft. Buster Williams, Billy Hart – Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett (Sunnyside Records, SSC 1596 . Album review by Mike Collins) A piano trio album subtitled Song for Keith Jarrett […]
Jonathan Gee: ‘Reimagining the Beatles’ and ‘Live in Rome (Villa Celimontana)’
Ohisashiburi – Reimagining the Beatles (Verte Records VR20004) Gee Gallo Minetto – Live in Rome (Villa Celimontana) (danillogallo.bandcamp.com) (Album reviews by Mike Collins) This brace of recent releases from two different bands […]
Karoline Wallace – ‘Stiklinger’
Karoline Wallace – Stiklinger (Øra Fonogram, OF169. CD review by Mike Collins) A steady stream of new, inventive music from Norway continues to appear on Øra Fonogram, the Trondheim-based label. Stiklinger (meaning […]
Michael Wollny – ‘Mondenkind’
Michael Wollny – Mondenkind(ACT 9765-2. CD review by Mike Collins) The far side of the moon is a traditional source of mystery. When it was visible to Apollo 11 as it orbited […]
Wako – “Wako” and Kjetil Mulelid Trio – “What You Thought Was Home”
Wako – Wako Kjetil Mulelid Trio – What You Thought Was Home (Øra Fonogram OF157 / Rune Grammofon RCD2208. CD reviews by Mike Collins) A brace of releases in the depths of […]
Nicholas/Viklický/Dvorský/Wickins – “One Two Three Four”
Nicholas/Viklický/Dvorský/Wickins – One Two Three Four (BeBoss Records. CD review by Mike Collins) One Two Three Four is a live set in more than one sense. Of course, it’s a recording of […]
Peter Hum – “Ordinary Heroes”
Peter Hum – Ordinary Heroes (peterhum.bandcamp.com. CD review by Mike Collins) From across the Atlantic comes a recording by Canadian polymath, pianist and composer Peter Hum. Ordinary Heroes is a set of […]
Alex Jønsson – “Heathland”
Alex Jønsson – Heathland (AJ04CD4. CD review by Mike Collins) Danish guitarist Alex Jønsson has a burgeoning reputation in his own country, performing with his own and a panoply of other bands […]
Marc Copland (trio album ‘And I Love Her’; Pizza Express Jazz Club 12 Feb)
Following the release late last year of their debut album And I Love Her, pianist Marc Copland, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Joey Baron embark on a European trio tour next month. […]
Woody Shaw Quintet – At Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1979 Vol.1
Woody Shaw Quintet – At Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1979 Vol.1 (Jazzline D77070. CD review by Mike Collins) A steady stream of live recordings from the ’70s and ’80s at Onkel Pö’s […]
