Mike Westbrook – The Piano and Me (Download only; album review by Patrick Hadfield) The Piano and Me is Mike Westbrook’s third album of solo piano music in recent years, following Paris and […]
Mike Westbrook – ‘The Piano and Me’
Elton Dean, Steve Miller & Pip Pyle – ‘Home Brewed’ (Rec. 1976)
Elton Dean, Steve Miller & Pip Pyle – Home Brewed (British Progressive Jazz. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) The aptly named British Progressive Jazz label has released this previously unavailable recording from […]
Sebastian Rochford – ‘A Short Diary’
Sebastian Rochford – A Short Diary (ECM 2749. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) Sebastian Rochford is perhaps best known for having been the driving force behind the iconoclastic band Polar Bear; his […]
Esbjörn Svensson (solo piano, rec. 2008) – ‘HOME.S’
Esbjörn Svensson – HOME.S (ACT. ACT9053-2. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) HOME.S is Esbjörn Svensson‘s only solo album, released in November more than fourteen years after his untimely death. Svensson’s wife Eva […]
Sean Gibbs – ‘Confluence’
Sean Gibbs – Confluence (Ubuntu Music. UBU0124. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Confluence is trumpeter Sean Gibbs‘ second album for Ubuntu. He’s joined by sixteen musicians. Gibbs wrote the six tunes specifically […]
Jasper Høiby Planet B at the Purcell Room (2022 EFG LJF)
Jasper Høiby Planet B (Purcell Room, EFG London Jazz Festival, 13 November 2022. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) A foggy (Sun)day in London town might have felt like an unlikely time to engage […]
RYMDEN at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (2022 EFG LJF)
RYMDEN (Queen Elizabeth Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival, 12 November 2022. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) RYMDEN are Bugge Wesseltoft (piano), Dan Berglund (bass) and Magnus Öström (drums); it’s twenty-five years since Wesseltoft made his name with his […]
Ant Law and Alex Hitchcock – Same Moon in The Same World
(Outside In Music. Available from Bandcamp. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Lockdown was a hard time for many people as they faced isolation, grief and the sudden loss of their livelihoods. But some […]
Laura Jurd in Edinburgh – with Dinosaur, Playtime, Fergus McCreadie’s Large Ensemble
Laura Jurd (Three concerts in Edinburgh. July 2022. Live Reviews by Patrick Hadfield) Trumpeter and, for these gigs at least, cornetist Laura Jurd made her first trip to the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, […]
Brian Molley Quartet with Krishna Kishor – ‘Intercontinental’
Brian Molley Quartet with special guest Krishna Kishor – Intercontinental (BGMM Records, BGMM 004. CD review by Patrick Hadfield) The Brian Molley Quartet are so assured that from the very start of their latest CD […]
Mike Westbrook’s Uncommon Orchestra at Ronnie Scott’s
Mike Westbrook’s Uncommon Orchestra(Ronnie Scott’s, 12 April 2022. Live review by Patrick Hadfield) Ronnie Scott’s was full of anticipation ahead of this long awaited show, originally scheduled for April 2020 (it had […]
Liran Donin/Idris Rahman – ‘Earth and Bones’
Liran Donin / Idris Rahman – Earth and Bones(Download review by Patrick Hadfield) At the tail-end of January, Idris Rahman and Liran Donin quietly released this record of their duet of reeds and […]
Alexander Hawkins Mirror Canon – ‘Break A Vase’
Alexander Hawkins Mirror Canon – Break A Vase (Intakt. CD374 CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Mirror Canon is the extension of Alexander Hawkins‘ trio with drummer Stephen Davis and bassist Neil Charles […]
Jyotsna Srikanth and Justyna Jablońska / Fergus McCreadie Trio at Celtic Connections
Jyotsna Srikanth and Justyna Jablońska / Fergus McCreadie Trio. (Celtic Connections at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 30 January 2022. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) Opening this typically eclectic Celtic Connections gig […]
Seonaid Aitken / Matt Carmichael Quintet at Celtic Connections, Glasgow
Seonaid Aitken / Matt Carmichael Quintet. (Celtic Connections at The Mackintosh Church, Glasgow. 29 January 2022. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) Glasgow’s Celtic Connections had been able to keep some of its […]
