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...

Herve Perez is a saxophonist and shakuhachi player (a Japanese end-blown flute) and self-confessed laptop music maker and sound designer,...

This release is a pan-European project involving musicians from Bulgaria, France, Macedonia and Serbia in an eleven-piece led by pianist/...

It’s always nice to be introduced to a new label by the sending of a physical CD rather than just a download (It rarely happens these...

This is an LP release of Monk’s second Columbia album after “Monk’s Dream” and is generally regarded as even better despite much of it...

It was noticeable that there were two SUN RA albums on RSD: a “The Showcase Live in Chicago, 1976-77” on 2 x LP (and 2 x CD) and, strange...

Scanning through the latest jazz releases as of 21st April, I have picked out the latest to investigate. Thormodsaeter is a bassist...

Following the Jazz Rock Fusion powerhouse “Feels Good to Me”, the group name BRUFORD was adopted for “One of a Kind”. The line-up is the...

Great news for ALICE COLTRANE fans, with the release of “Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert” on Impulse! Alice Coltrane had just...

April Records has a number of new releases out: I have only been able to listen to a selection of tracks and one full album by RASMUS...

Chris Potter is a highly talented tenor and soprano saxophonist who mustn’t be missed for anyone who has even just a passing interest in...

Anyone evenly remotely into Jazz should check out the indefatigable sax and woodwinds maestro CHARLES LLOYD, 85-years young and composing...

This is one album that I keep returning to it and certainly one of 2023’s best in the ‘Jazz’ category. There are two brief field...

‘The Gate’ is a powerful opener, Patricia Brennan’s vibes coming to the fore; trombonist Jacob Garchik also contributing grandly;...

At the tail-end of last year, Akinmusire released this intimate and soul-enhancing album: just a trio with his trumpet playing alongside...

One of Bandcamp’s recommended albums of 2023 is the fourth by LA LA LARS , a Swedish jazz group led by drummer Lars Skoglund, who also...

It was back in 1999, I think, when I reviewed this band’s “Soleil” album for ACID DRAGON, quoting, “For fans of SOFT MACHINE, GONG,...

It has been five years since the Softs’ last studio album “Hidden Details”. The line-up is John Ethridge (guitar), Theo Travis (saxes,...

I.P.A. might be considered is something of a Scandinavian jazz supergroup, with Atle Nymo on tenor saxophone, Magnus Broo on trumpet,...

When originally released as a digi-pak, “Kicking the Olive Branch” sold out within two weeks. It was recorded in the studio and on...