Dan Nicholls – Mattering and Meaning (We Records. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Dan Nicholls is one of the finest graduates from the jazz course at Birmingham Conservatoire, and arguably the best ever! […]
Dan Nicholls– ‘Mattering and Meaning’
Michael Mantler: ‘Coda – Orchestral Suites’
Michael Mantler: Coda – Orchestral Suites(ECM. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Michael Mantler, the composer and trumpet player from Austria, has brought out two albums on the ECM label in which he looks back at and […]
Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra – ‘Crazy Days: UAJO Plays The Music Of Ed Puddick’
Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra – Crazy Days: UAJO Plays The Music Of Ed Puddick (ATS Records CD-0972. Album Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This album is the result of a visit to Austria by […]
Mike Gibbs – ‘Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes’
Mike Gibbs – Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes (Jazz in Britain JIB 24-S-CD. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The enterprising Jazz in Britain label specialises in releasing archive material often drawn […]
David Burke – ‘Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz’
David Burke – Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz(Desert Hearts. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Giant Steps presents short chapters on 25 musicians from the British Caribbean, African and Asian (including West Asia) […]
Moses Boyd at the Barbican Centre
Moses Boyd (Livestream from the Barbican, Sunday 18 April. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Moses Boyd presented a set of material from his Mercury Prize nominated album Dark Matter with an augmented version […]
Binker Golding / John Edwards / Steve Noble – ‘Moon Day’
Binker Golding, John Edwards, Steve Noble – Moon Day (Byrd Out Records BYR 303. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans.) Saxophonist Binker Golding became known on the jazz scene through his Binker & […]
Eddie Prévost: Four CDs on Matchless Records
Eddie Prévost: Four CDs with different groups. (Album reviews by Tony Dudley-Evans). ConcertOTO – Matchless Records MRCD 104. November 2012 Iklectik Live One – Matchless Records MRCD 103. November 2016 Bean Soup and Bouquets – […]
Logan Richardson – ‘Afrofuturism’
Logan Richardson – Afrofuturism (Whirlwind Recordings WR4772. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Afrofuturism, Kansas City-born saxophonist Logan Richardson’s fifth album, has a fascinating narrative thread through blues-influenced ensemble pieces interspersed with short spoken word […]
Andy Hamilton – ‘Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford’
Andy Hamilton – Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford (Bloomsbury Academic. 228pp. Book review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This book presents a series of conversations between author Andy Hamilton and […]
NEWJAiM label. First four releases (Laura Toxværd, Paul Taylor, John Pope Quintet, Graeme Wilson & Andy Champion)
Tony Dudley-Evans reviews the first four albums on the NEWJAiM label: NEWJAiM (short for New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings) is a new label established in Newcastle by Wesley Stephenson who decided […]
Europe Jazz Media Chart January 2021
The new Europe Jazz Media Chart is out. We were welcomed in to the set-up last year, and since then Peter Slavid, Tony Dudley-Evans and Sebastian have been rotating the strike, as […]
Golden Age of Steam – ‘Tomato Brain’
Golden Age of Steam – Tomato Brain (NOISE Records LTNO 13. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The music of James Allsopp’s Golden Age of Steam has been described as ‘abstract electronica meets radical […]
Will Glaser/James Allsopp – “New River Ramble”
Will Glaser/James Allsopp – New River Ramble (release 31 October) (Bandcamp / other platforms. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This album follows in the great tradition of saxophone/drums duos. Featuring James Allsopp on […]
Michel Benita Quartet – “Looking At Sounds”
Michel Benita Quartet – Looking At Sounds (ECM 6025 0872884. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Michel Benita is a a French bass player born in Algeria. He is mainly known in the UK for […]
