Christine Tobin – Returning Weather (Trail Belle Records TBR05. Review by AJ Dehany) Returning Weather is Irish composer-singer Christine Tobin’s nine-part meditation on the nature of home and homecoming. This fine evocative […]
Guitarist Pete Oxley was looking forward to 2020, the year which marks both his 60th birthday and the twenty-first year of weekly gigs at The Spin, Oxford’s contemporary jazz club. The pandemic […]
Steve Hamilton – Between The Lines (Available from Steve Hamilton’s Bandcamp. Album review by Patrick Hadfield) Recorded in the depths of the Covid lockdown, Scottish pianist Steve Hamilton‘s first solo record is […]
Ali Affleck is a self-confessed ‘vintage vocalist’ specialising in powerful performances of early jazz songs and styles. She was voted Best Jazz Vocalist by the Scottish Jazz Federation in 2014. Ali has […]
Paul Booth – Travel Sketches (Ubuntu Music UBU0034. CD Review by Peter Jones) There is a calm, muscular authority in the playing of tenor saxophonist Paul Booth that makes it obvious why he […]
Paul Booth Quartet (Travel Sketches album launch) (Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, 27 August 2019. Review by Dominic Williams) On the hottest of nights, the coolest of jazz. Tenor saxophonist Paul Booth’s […]
