Back Door seemed to excel more as a live band than a studio band; their numbers tended to be fairly short, Ron Aspery’s flurry of sax...

Emma-Jean Thackray gets right to the heart of the matter with her direct lyrics and hooks and use of vignettes as bridges like ‘Something...

Sonny Rollins first heard Monk on the B-side of Coleman Hawkins’ ‘Drifting on a Reed’ b/w Monk’s ‘Flyin’ Hawk’ – “staccato accents to...

A voluminous book, 770 pages in all, and meticulously detailed and written in an accessible and erudite way, comprehensive and detail...

I first heard Yaatri at Peggy’s Skylight and was entranced by them, eagerly snapping up an autographed LP; I saw their subsequent EP...

Maja Babyszka, British woodwind virtuoso Gilad Atzmon and Greek drummer Nikos Sidirokastritis have joined forces to create what the press...

Mancunians Fairhall and Hunter get back to basics with an upright piano and a snare drum. The origins of this recording are unusual in...

Julee Cruise (1956 – 2022): WIRE magazine said that Julee fitted into “the David Lynch world with her peroxide shock and rockette...

A heads up to a new release from Kamasi Washington who is already well known for his soundtracks: “Becoming” (Netlix) and “Shinichirð”...

The title track is a 4-part suite and an accomplished and impressive start to the album with Mazyar Younes (piano), Ehsan Sadich...

Prepare for some free range jazz from Phil Hargreaves and his trio, impressionistic music with sounds varying from squawking gulls,...

Freddie Hubbard looks so young in the photograph at the start of this month’s JAZZWISE article on the legendary trumpeter. Hubbard played...

Described as innovative and as “constructing a new sound world”, Hawkins has been making albums since 2009 both as a pianist and Hammond...

When writing about the Moon June 2009 release of a live performance on Radio Bremen in January, 1975 by the line-up that had released...

Irène’s Hot Four are: Irène Schweizer: Piano; Rüdiger Carl: Saxophones, Clarinet, Accordion; Johnny Dyani: Bass, Vocal; Han Bennink:...

I have previously reviewed the Patrick Forgas Phenomenon for Acid Dragon, but this is a reissue of Patrick’s very first album, recorded...

This is highly-rated tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis’s fifth album with his quartet. It is described somewhat enigmatically as “a...

Thanks to Steve Young for making me aware of the Aesthetiko Music Collective (whose mission statement is to make “a sound of musical...

The line-up was George Cartwright – saxophones; Tom Cora – cello; Davey Williams – guitar, Ann Rupel – bass and Pippin Barnett – drums....

John Patitucci was bassist with Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea. Opener ‘Think Fast’ features Chris Potter’s lithe, flitting soprano sax...