NEWS FROM ROLAND AND JENS: The GARY BROOKER MEMORIAL CONCERT will take place on 4th December, 2023 at G LIVE, GUILDFORD on 4th December,...

On 24th November, 2023 a CD set combining two albums from 1988 and 1990 respectively that Peter has been reworking/ re-recording will be...

Playing a mixture of free jazz and more conventional post-bop jazz, Charlotte Keeffe has developed into one of Britain’s top trumpeters...

Trip into the Light Fantastic is a follow-up to Light Trails positively reviewed first release Chromatology (2022). Leader John Simms was...

Everything you ever wanted to know about “FREAK OUT!” …and some! THE LEADER FRANK Vincent ZAPPA (1940- 1993) BORN Baltimore, Maryland,...

Released on 13th October, 2023, the second concert at Brighton featured a pre-release performance of “Dark Side of the Moon” with...

Originally released in 1976 “Hot Valves” is being re-issued in 10-inch version as part of Cherry Red’s 45s at 45 series. Consisting of...

And now for something completely different. This is meditation but not as we know it. In the artist’s own words his electroacoustic...

Mariusz, of Riverside and Lunatic Soul fame, releases a solo album on 17th November, 2023. The theme is Artificial Intelligence as a...

“Substance” was originally a compilation of 12” singles and B-sides. Now it is to appear, on 10th November, as a 2 or 4 CD set with lots...

On 3rd November Atomhenge/ Cherry Red will release, in replica card wallet style with poster, in a clamshell 3 x CD box set. The albums...

Versatile and enduring flautist/ saxist Ian McDonald and exceptional drummer Mike Giles were part of KING CRIMSON at the very start and...

It’s interesting to return to something after a considerable amount of time and this record sounds better to me than when I first heard...

If you haven’t heard of them, Daniel Vincent and Dominic Hemy are the two gentlemen behind this project. If you check out their Bandcamp...

I have been reviewing the prolific improvisational space rocker Øresund Space Collective. Going back to “Ode to A Black Hole” (2016),...

The Rick Ray band just goes from strength to strength. If Rick thought “Under the Sky” was their best yet, this release is right up there...

ROBERT SHECKLEY was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in New Jersey. After serving in the Korean War, Robert began to write short...

SUN RA (1914-1993): Born in 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama, Herman Blount changed his name to Sun Ra in 1952. He claimed he had never been...

Now I must confess I knew absolutely nothing about this Moscow group. I see from their Bandcamp page that this album was (inevitably!)...

On the way home from the Edinburgh fringe, I decided to do a Monty Python and go for something completely different. It was then that I...