Peter Jones – Nightfly: The Life of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen (Chicago Review Press. Book review by Peter Bacon) Mark Murphy… Jon Hendricks… Donald Fagen… For those of us not far from […]
Summer of Soul (Film Directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. Film review by Peter Jones) Rating 12A, 117mins From July 16 in cinemas and from July 30 on Disney+ By now you have […]
Deschanel Gordon Quartet (606 Club. 26 June 2021. Review by Peter Jones) This eagerly-anticipated gig was massively over-subscribed, and it’s not difficult to see why. 23-year-old Londoner Deschanel Gordon has already scaled […]
Michael Spitzer – The Musical Human (Bloomsbury, 2021. Book review by Peter Jones) Listeners to BBC Radio 4 may have heard Simon McBurney reading extracts from this book over recent days: it […]
In our series in which musicians do a “deep dive” into the music of their inspirations, Peter Jones (*) writes about ten of his favourite tracks by singer Mark Murphy (1932-2015), distilled […]
Zoophyte – Out of the Cave (Howlin’ Werewolf HWEP001. EP Review by Jeanie Barton) Out of the Cave, available on Bandcamp, features a number of cats with a cool jive. Zoophyte is […]
Tamil Rogeon – Son Of Nyx (Soul Bank Music SBM001CD. CD review by Peter Jones) Viola players can be a pretty modest bunch, full of self-deprecation and apology for not being violinists. […]
Dexter Gordon – The Squirrel (Parlophone 5054197065835. Double LP review by Peter Jones) From 1963 to 1976 Dexter Gordon lived in Paris and then Copenhagen. Back home in America the appetite for […]
This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz. Peter Jones (Equinox, 263pp., Book Review By Chris Parker) Musician/writer Ben Sidran calls jazz singer/lyricist Jon Hendricks a ‘generous spirit [who] radiated […]
Singer-songwriter-keyboardist Jarrod Lawson, originally from Portland, Oregon has just released his second album Be the Change (Dome Records). Peter Jones writes. I remember the first time I heard Take 6 on the […]
Multiquarium Big Band feat. Biréli Lagrène – Remembering Jaco (Naïve Records NJ7194. CD review by Peter Jones) Jaco Pastorius is well worth remembering, so this new album by French big band Multiquarium […]
David Linx – Skin in the Game (Cristal Records CR 297. CD Review by Peter Jones) This album from Belgian vocalist, composer and producer David Linx is round about his 30th as […]
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 […]
