DANIEL CASIMIR – BALANCE (2024) (Bandcamp)
Put on Bandcamp in digital format only, this album has attracted so much attention that there’s a vinyl pressing coming. Casimir is a...
top of page
- Aug 20
- 1 min
KAMASI WASHINGTON – FEARLESS MOVEMENT (2024)
I have Washington’s “The Epic” on vinyl and “Heaven and Earth” on CD already in my collection. While they could legitimately be described...
0 views0 comments
- Jul 31
- 2 min
FERGUS McCREADIE – STREAM (Edition Records) (2024)
The nominations of writers in All About Jazz inspired me to check out Fergus McCreadie, in particular his latest album “Stream”, already...
2 views0 comments
- Jul 24
- 1 min
CARLA DIRATZ & THE ARCHERS OF SORROW – BLUE STITCHES (Discus Music) (2024)
With the same band on board as “The Scale” (see separate review), I looked forward to listening to another album three years on. Although...
3 views0 comments
- Jul 24
- 1 min
CARLA DIRATZ & THE ARCHERS OF SORROW – THE SCALE (Discus Music) (2021)
The opener is impressive: a basic drum pattern (Adam Fairclough) grounding the opening title track into a groove as French chanteuse...
5 views0 comments
- Jul 19
- 1 min
RON CAINES/ MARTIN ARCHER AXIS – PRACTICAL DREAMERS (Discus Music) (2024)
This is the fifth album by Axis, seven-part suite of electroacoustic excursions, recorded this time from saxophonist Ron Caines outwards...
2 views0 comments
- Jul 16
- 1 min
P.S. CHARLES LLOYD’s ‘HIP’ CREDENTIALS
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...
1 view0 comments
- Jul 16
- 1 min
CHARLES LLOYD – THE SKY WILL STILL BE THERE TOMORROW (2024) (2 x CD; 2 x LP) (Blue Note)
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,...
0 views0 comments
- Jul 16
- 2 min
JEAN LUC PONTY- LIFE ENIGMA (2001/ 2024) (MPS Records) (LP)
Quoting from what I wrote for THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE: “On some tracks Ponty handled all the instruments and ‘effects’ himself, with only a...
2 views0 comments
- Jul 10
- 2 min
SOFT MACHINE – HØVIKODDEN, 1971 – CUNEIFORM RECORDS (2024) 4 X CD & 4 x LP boxsets
Having written the first part of my review in DISS, I finally got around to listening to the rest of this ‘blast from the past’, a...
3 views0 comments
- Jul 10
- 1 min
KEVIN KASTNING and BRUNO RÅBERG – SILENT DIMENSIONS (Greydisc Records) (2024)
I have reviewed Kevin Kastning’s music before on DISS. On this Kevin plays contra and subcontra guitars with 16, 24 and 36 strings. In...
21 views1 comment
- Jul 1
- 2 min
JACK BRUCE – SONGS FOR A TAILOR (Cherry Red/ Esoteric Recordings) (1969/ 2024) (26th July) (2 x CD + 2 x Blu Ray or 1 x RM g/f LP with fully restored artwork).
With remastering by Stephen W Tayler, the two CDs offer bonus tracks with alternative mixes and first/ second takes of some of the...
4 views0 comments
- Jul 1
- 1 min
THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE IS HERE!
MARTIN C STRONG has sent a picture of the finished book so I can confirm that the long-awaited successor to his popular Great Rock...
6 views0 comments
- Jul 1
- 2 min
CHRIS SEARLE – TALKING THE GROOVE: JAZZ WORDS FROM THE MORNING STAR (Jazz in Britain -Bandcamp) (2024)
I wasn’t sent this for review, but decided to buy it myself as I had enjoyed Chris Searle’s “Forward Groove” book (2008) so much. This...
12 views0 comments
- Jul 1
- 2 min
2024 – SPRING INTO SUMMER: SECOND QUARTER TOP NEW RELEASES reviewed on DISS
In alphabetical order (maximum of 3 reissues per 10, all from 2024 & reviewed in 2024): please note genres are nearest approximations....
6 views0 comments
- Jun 26
- 2 min
JANEL LEPPIN AND ANTHONY PIROG – NEW MOON IN THE EVIL AGE CD/ 2 x LP (Cuneiform Records)
LP one is 10 tracks of instrumental duets and LP two is a 9-track vocal album. This couple play together in ENSEMBLE VOLCANIC ASH, named...
8 views0 comments
- Jun 26
- 2 min
JANEL LEPPIN – ENSEMBLE VOLCANIC ASH - TO MARCH IS TO LOVE (2024) (Cuneiform Records)
Janel Leppin has appeared on numerous albums encompassing various genres, and as a member of PRIESTS. She is joined on her latest...
8 views0 comments
- Jun 19
- 3 min
LONDON UNDERGROUND – LIVE AT THE 19TH DREAM OF DR. SARDONICUS FESTIVAL 2023 (Regal Crabomophone/ Fruits de Mer Records – pre-order now for 13th August, 2024 release)
London Underground were formed in Florence in 1998 (apparently there is a connection to great Italian keyboard driven prog band...
38 views0 comments
- Jun 19
- 2 min
SOFT MACHINE - HØVIKODDEN 1971 4 x CD/ 4 x LP (Cuneiform Records) (part one)
For the first time the entire two nights of the legendary concert at the Henie- Onstad Art Centre near Oslo can be heard in glorious...
3 views0 comments
- Jun 19
- 2 min
SIAPIAU – PI (Discus Music) (2023) and CHRIS SEARLE – TALKING THE GROOVE- JAZZ WORDS FROM THE MORNING STAR (2024)
I take the unusual step here of reviewing and album at the same time as a book just released on Jazz in Britain books with a 2 x CD...
4 views0 comments
For all inquiries,
please contact site administrator Benedict Jackson
07931 650438 | doctorwhoreviewer@outlook.com
Find more information about
our books. projects and help with self-publishing
07931 650438 | doctorwhoreviewer@outlook.com
07952 376986 | phil7jackson@madasafish.com
© 2023 by Benedict Jackson. Powered and secured by Wix
bottom of page