“Les Go” is, in alto saxophonist Devin’s own words, a “running out the gates” first year on the scene after graduation, album, and augurs...

As The London Jazz Festival is getting closer, it’s time to have a look at some recent releases by some of the headliners. Pianist NEIL...

Bill Bruford’s outstanding jazz-rock-fusion album Feels Good to Me (1978) figures prominently in this 3 CD set, with a crack band of...

So goes the title of the feature story in JAZZWISE magazine – their 300th issue, infact – congratulations! I must admit I got into Alice...

This is live recording from a piece premiered at the 2023 Cheltenham Jazz Festival, and later recorded at The Vortex Club in London....

Put on Bandcamp in digital format only, this album has attracted so much attention that there’s a vinyl pressing coming. Casimir is a...

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...

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...

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

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,...

Quoting from what I wrote for THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE: “On some tracks Ponty handled all the instruments and ‘effects’ himself, with only a...

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...

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...

With remastering by Stephen W Tayler, the two CDs offer bonus tracks with alternative mixes and first/ second takes of some of the...

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...

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...

In alphabetical order (maximum of 3 reissues per 10, all from 2024 & reviewed in 2024): please note genres are nearest approximations....