Yellowjackets – Parallel Motion(Mack Avenue MAC1196. Album review by Peter Bacon) As a descriptor the label “jazz fusion band – it appears in the Yellowjackets’ Wikipedia entry – has always struck me as […]
Yellowjackets – ‘Parallel Motion’
Maridalen – ‘Maridalen’
Maridalen – Maridalen(Jazzland 377 935 6. Album review by Peter Bacon) The wooden Maridalen church, a former mission house from the 1880s, lies in a valley north of Oslo and not far […]
Håkon Kornstad – ‘Out Of The Loop’
Håkon Kornstad – Out Of The Loop(Jazzland. Album review by Peter Bacon) This album is the result of a session in Sofienberg Church in Oslo at the beginning of March 2020, which […]
Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band – ‘Jackets XL’
Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band – Jackets XL(Mack Avenue MAC1175. CD review by Peter Bacon) The classy Cologne-based jazz orchestra has made many fine albums with illustrious guests but this one with the […]
John Hollenbeck – “Songs You Like A Lot”
John Hollenbeck – Songs You Like A Lot(Flexatonic Records Flex001. CD review by Peter Bacon) This release completes the trilogy of popular songs re-arranged by John Hollenbeck that began with Songs I […]
Matthieu Bordenave/Patrice Moret/Florian Weber – “La Traversée”
Matthieu Bordenave/Patrice Moret/Florian Weber – La Traversée(ECM 088 2928. CD review by Peter Bacon) I have a hunch – completely unsubstantiated – that there are more albums by clarinettist/saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre to be found […]
Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin with Bill Frisell – “Americana”
Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin with Bill Frisell – Americana (ACT Music 9049-2. CD review by Peter Bacon) What’s this? Brothers In Arms? Clearly not a bunch of British jazzers, then. At the risk […]
Oded Tzur – “Here Be Dragons”
Oded Tzur – Here Be Dragons (ECM 083 5998. CD review by Peter Bacon) Oded Tzur makes an extraordinary sound with his tenor saxophone. I suppose the last time I was quite so […]
Pat Metheny – “From This Place”
Pat Metheny – From This Place (Nonesuch 075597924374 CD review by Peter Bacon) There is only one Pat Metheny but I remember a time when there were two Pat Metheny audiences. There was […]
Paul Winter Consort & Friends – Everybody Under The Sun: Voices Of Solstice
Paul Winter Consort – Everybody Under The Sun: Voices Of Solstice (Volume I: The Singers) (Living Music. CD review by Peter Bacon) I have a very soft spot for Paul Winter. The […]
Jon Shenoy (new album, Draw By Four’s Salinas Song, launch 22 Dec)
Reeds player Jon Shenoy releases Salinas Song, the second album from his quartet Draw By Four, in time for Christmas. It’s on sale from 16 December and the launch party is at […]
Kit Downes (new album Dreamlife of Debris, now out on ECM)
Pianist, organist and composer Kit Downes has just released Dreamlife of Debris, his second album as leader on ECM Records. He spoke to Peter Bacon about the preceding musical journey and the churches […]
Charles Lloyd Quartet – Montreux Jazz Festival 1967 (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series 46)
Charles Lloyd Quartet – Montreux Jazz Festival 1967 (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series 46) (The Montreux Jazz Label TCB 02462. CD review by Peter Bacon) Maybe it shouldn’t be so striking, but, somehow, […]
Jim Beard/Jon Herington – Chunks And Chairknobs
Jim Beard/Jon Herington – Chunks And Chairknobs (Jazzline D 77069. CD review by Peter Bacon) As liner notes man Bill Milkowski explains, pianist Jim Beard and guitarist Jon Herington have been session players […]
Silje Nergaard/Espen Berg plus more at Crazy Coqs for EFG London Jazz Festival (15-23 Nov)
Crazy Coqs, the cabaret venue at Brasserie Zédel in Piccadilly, has a very strong programme as part of the 2019 EFG London Jazz Festival. The accent is on distinctive singers of the […]
