I got re-acquainted with the music of tenor saxophonist/ flautist CHARLES LLOYD with his trilogy of 2022 albums “Trios” (“Chapel”,...

I am not a major fan of free jazz, but this albums by a quartet of Sam Rivers (reeds, flute), Anthony Braxton (reeds, flute) led by...

You may well have heard of Hungarian Sânor Szabô if you are a student of guitar, and if you are intrigued by the prospect of hearing a...

I wasn’t sure about this at first, but something drove me back to it, and now I can’t stop listening – headphones help as this is a great...

The Esoteric/ Red Cherry is releasing an album on CD that has been in my vinyl collection for a while (although I did discover it...

Influenced by Sidney Bechet, Brözmann took up clarinet as a young teenager, but mostly concentrated on saxophone thereafter. He was also...

This is the third live PAKT album and they are; PERCY JONES: bassist extraordinary. Most famously with BRAND X, but he also appears on...

Manchester trumpeter Matthew Halsall has gained quite a following and reputation since he founded his Godwana Records outlet fifteen...

Think of a big name in Bop and Post-bop Jazz and Max Roach has probably drummed with them, as well as releasing the seminal protest album...

The response to this album has been positive, and it’s easy to hear why if you sample the five available tracks on Bandcamp as a...

Manchester group GO GO PENGUIN’s first album Fanfares came out on trumpeter par excellence Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana label. Next came...

We’ve waited over six decades for this: the tapes were lost, then found, then mislaid, then found again at the New York Public Library....

When I heard Christian McBride was releasing a new album, I just had to check it out. I cannot claim to be too familiar with his previous...

Martin Archer's label of love, DISCUS MUSIC, promotes "new creative music by living, working musicians". Described as "an ever morphing...