Reviews
John Williamson: The Northern Sea
Alex Wilson | Jonny Mansfield | Alex Hitchcock | John Williamson | Jay Davis | Immy Churchill
Hell, if you’re a bass player, why not start your solo album with a bass solo? After all, contrary to...
Reviewed in issue September/2024
Matyas Gayer Trio: Westbourne Park
Dave Green | Steve Brown | Matyas Gayer
I’ve heard Hungarian-in-London Gayer subbing in Five-Way Split and playing for the Nat Steele-Mark Crooks Quintet, and have been impressed...
Reviewed in issue September/2024
Steven Nichols: From Dust
Charlie Rees | Reuben Goldmark | Steven Nichols | John Jones | Amund Kleppan
You may not have heard of trumpeter Steven Nichols, but his pedigree speaks for itself: he has studied and performed...
Reviewed in issue September/2024
The Jazzanians: We Have Waited Too Long
This is an important album that slots into the continuing evolution of South African jazz. Dating back to the 1980s,...
Reviewed in issue August/2024
Ant Law & Brigitte Beraha: Ensconced
Law’s musical palette grows ever wider: Ensconced finds him principally playing steel string acoustic, most rare for him, and collaborating...
Reviewed in issue August/2024
Richard Fairhurst: Inside Out
Dave Whitford | Tim Giles | Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst has an impressive pedigree. Five years after beginning to learn the piano at the age of 15, he...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Tim Garland: Moment of Departure
A double CD set that effectively celebrates the return of the Lighthouse Trio for a 20th anniversary tour, and, if...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Trio HLK: Anthropometricks
Varijashree Venugopal | Evelyn Glennie | Ant Law | Natalie Clein | Rich Harrold | Rich Kass
Anthropometricks applies the same process that Trio HLK employed on their debut Standard Time. Shards of standards are slivered from...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
Doncaster Jazz Alumni: 50 Years
Consider this remarkable double-CD as a kind of festschrift (or a sort of ‘commemorative document’ as the dictionary has it)...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
QOW Trio: The Hold Up
Spike Wells | Eddie Myer | Riley Stone-Lonergan
Spike Wells came to jazz on the 1960s bandstand with Bobby Wellins and Tubby Hayes, Eddie Myer out of autodidactic...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
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