Vibration Black Finger – Can You See What I’m Trying to Say (Jazzman JJMANLP 121. CD review by Peter Jones) Music that breaks genre boundaries is difficult to sell. People naturally want […]
Kansas Smitty’s – Things Happened Here (Ever/K7. CD Review by Peter Jones) There’s no one quite like Kansas Smitty’s, formerly known as Kansas Smitty’s House Band (pedantically, I find myself struggling with […]
Zoöphyte – Signs of Life (Howlin’ Werewolf 004. CD review by Andrew Cartmel) Signs of Life is the first album by Zoöphyte, a flexible collective of musicians under the leadership of vocalist […]
The Eddy (Netflix. TV review by Peter Jones) The Eddy is an eight-part drama series set in and around a jazz club in Paris called, yes, The Eddy. The show’s American director […]
The violin playing of Wakefield-born violinist Dominic Ingham has been described by Kit Downes as “a rare treat”. After graduating from Guildhall last summer, Ingham will be launching his debut album Role […]
Malcolm Strachan – About Time (Haggis Records HRCD004. CD Review by Peter Jones) One of the many pleasures of this new CD from trumpeter Malcolm Strachan is its unashamedly slick, commercial feel. Some […]
Tom Green Septet – Tipping Point (Spark 008. CD Review by Peter Jones) In the five years since his impressive debut Skyline, trombonist Tom Green has stuck to his winning formula. There […]
Jim Hart and Ivo Neame – Multiverse (Edition Records EDN1147. CD Review by Peter Jones) Multiverse has taken a while to come out. Ivo Neame and Jim Hart started recording it in […]
Xhosa Cole Quartet (Watermill Jazz Club, Dorking. 21 January 2020. Review by Peter Jones.) On Tuesday evening, in a neat bit of symmetry, the venue of the year played host to the […]
Red Kite – Theory of Colours (Jellymould JJ028. CD Review by Peter Jones) This one arrived unheard of and unasked for, and it goes to show what joys you can sometimes discover […]
Carmen Lundy – Modern Ancestors (Afrasia AFP 13823. CD Review by Peter Jones) Carmen Lundy treads her own path. Not for her the water-treading predictability of so many jazz singers, forever recycling […]
Ted Gioia – Music: A Subversive History (Basic Books, 2019. 528 Pages. Book review by Peter Jones) Ted Gioia is the author of many books about jazz, including West Coast Jazz (1992) and […]
Larry Goldings Trio (606 Club, EFG London Jazz Festival, 20 November 2019. Review by Peter Jones) Although he has played in London on many occasions, this was the first time organist Larry […]
Dave O’Higgins & Rob Luft – Play Monk & Trane (Ubuntu UBU0029. CD Review by Peter Jones) In some ways it’s a slightly unexpected pairing – well-established tenor bopster Dave O’Higgins with […]
Kitty Whitelaw sings Anita O’Day (Bull’s Head, Barnes. EFG London Jazz Festival. 18 November 2019. Review by Peter Jones) Better known in some circles as the vocal half of avant-garde duo Sealionwoman, Kitty […]
