Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara (Brownswood Recordings BWOOD0257CD. Album review by Graham Spry) Drummer Tom Skinner has been a significant force in British jazz for over a decade. He first came […]
Tom Skinner – ‘Voices of Bishara’
Mark Lockheart – ‘Dreamers’
Mark Lockheart – Dreamers (Edition Records, EDN1195. Review by Graham Spry) Mark Lockheart is a saxophonist and composer who first entered national consciousness in the 1980s with Loose Tubes, and was later […]
Chelsea Carmichael – ‘The River Doesn’t Like Strangers’
Chelsea Carmichael – The River Doesn’t Like Strangers (Native Rebel Recordings. Album review by Adam Sieff) Over the last few years since graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, the Manchester-born and London-based tenor […]
Mark Lockheart Quartet at Empire Bar Hackney
REVIEW: Mark Lockheart Quartet (Empire Bar Hackney. 11 December 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Tenor titan Mark Lockheart’s new group is a bit of a beast: four heavyweight players presenting new compositions […]
Liam Noble with Seb Rochford and Tom Herbert at Kings Place
Liam Noble with Seb Rochford and Tom Herbert – launch of The Long Game (Kings Place, 16 September 2019. Review by Richard Lee) I seem to be following Jon Turney around, mainly in […]
Liam Noble – The Long Game
Liam Noble – The Long Game (Edition Records. CD Review by Jon Turney) How might Liam Noble follow up his brilliant, widely-praised piano trio release of 2009, Brubeck, in which he took a collection […]
