A highly recommended double CD capturing a compendium of artists who have played at the Fruits de Mer festivals over the years, with 2½...

This boxset is remarkable in that it is the first ever such anthology (There was a less comprehensive boxset in 2003) of a band who most...

ANGE toured extensively in the UK and opened for Genesis in front of 30,000 music fans at the Reading Festival in 1973. The band was...

Tusmørke have been releasing their albums on an almost yearly basis since their first in 2012 and “Dawn of Oberon” is due on 30th August....

Overtaking previous remasters, Karl Groom and Richard West, guitarist and keyboardist respectively, have overhauled Threshold’s first two...

I read a suggestion somewhere that 1975 might not have been as epic a year as, say, 1973 or 1974, but comparing this with the earlier...

I saw Ritual at a Rotherham Classic Rock Society gig back in the 90s- they formed in 1993 and, apparently this is their first album in 17...

I have Washington’s “The Epic” on vinyl and “Heaven and Earth” on CD already in my collection. While they could legitimately be described...

The nominations of writers in All About Jazz inspired me to check out Fergus McCreadie, in particular his latest album “Stream”, already...

I wrote in December, 2023 of the lead-off single: choppy organ chords, soaring flights of guitar, strident drums and percussion in a...

Thanks to NICK SALOMAN for the opportunity to listen to another new release from his Blue Matter label. The album starts with ‘Stars in...

A review and interview with TIM HUNTER Can I ask you why you have released your latest album "Connecting with Faith" under the name...

With the same band on board as “The Scale” (see separate review), I looked forward to listening to another album three years on. Although...

The opener is impressive: a basic drum pattern (Adam Fairclough) grounding the opening title track into a groove as French chanteuse...

After the impressive single in which The Space Lords delivered an amazing track about the loneliness of space, here comes the anticipated...

This is the fifth album by Axis, seven-part suite of electroacoustic excursions, recorded this time from saxophonist Ron Caines outwards...

Phil Jackson discusses The Luck of Eden Hall’s classic album “The Acceleration of Time” with ‘Curvey’ as he is affectionately known, and...

Maurizio ‘Angus’ Bidoli was encountered by Nick Saloman and The Frond at a gig in Rome in the early 90s, where Nick was given a cassette...

Some little snippets from my entry on CHARLES LLOYD in THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE: “On his early albums Lloyd’s tenor sax playing owed much to...

Following his successful trio of “Trios” albums last year, Charles Lloyd is back in age defying form at 86 (and I just heard BOB DYLAN,...