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Tam de Villers 4tet – Panacea
(Whirlwind Recordings WR4669) Guitarist Tam de Villiers was born in England and studied at Leeds College of Music but has been living in Paris since 2003. This is the third album from nearly the same...
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Danish guitarist brings his trio to the Six Eight
The first thing that strikes the listener new to Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug is that he doesn’t sound like a jazz guitarist. His rich, rounded, twangy, reverb tone setting is more likely to be found...
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George Crowley – Can Of Worms
(Whirlwind Recordings WR4666) Young British tenor player Crowley is in the left channel and has fellow tenorist Tom Challenger in the right, with, elsewhere in the stereo mix, Dan Nicholls on piano and...
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Ivo Neame – Strata
(Whirlwind Recordings WR4674) Inevitably, British pianist (and saxophonist too, once upon a time) Ivo Neame is best known from his Scandinavian associations – as part of the trio Phronesis and as a...
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Joel Harrison 5 – Spirit House
(Whirlwind Recordings) Guitarist Joel Harrison‘s back catalogue is chock-a-block with adventures, both in repertoire and in band configuration. So, we’ve had albums inspired by ethnic folk song,...
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Paradise feels the power of the Paradigm Shift today
If you are in the vicinity of Paradise Forum in Birmingham today, you might be aware of a strange energy in the air. No, it’s not the earth movers closing in on the old Birmingham library, it’s the...
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Julian Argüelles – October 2015
Saxophonist Julian Argüelles is about to tour with his new, young band Tetra – Kit Downes on piano, Sam Lasserson double bass and James Maddren drums – on the back of a new CD of the same name,...
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Julian Argüelles – Tetra
(Whirlwind Recordings) Tetra is both the name of the album and of this working quartet which has seen Midlands-born saxophonist Julian Argüelles (he cut his teeth with Walsall Jazz Orchestra) enlist...
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Recent CD releases in brief – December 2015
Art Blakey – The Complete Columbia and RCA Albums Collection (Columbia Legacy): Christmas is box-set time and there are three new must-haves from the Sony stable. This one brings together seven...
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Some of the 2015 CDs that nearly got away – Part 1
These are just a few of the many CDs released in 2015 that thoroughly deserved a review but didn’t get one on this site. Well, not until now, and in brief… NYSQ – Power Of 10 (Whirlwind Recordings):...
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Sam Crockatt Quartet – Mells Bells
(Whirlwind Recordings) Among the many fine recordings coming out of the younger British scene, this feels like one of the most mature yet. Tenor saxophonist Sam Crockatt has an R-R of a band with Kit...
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March CD releases in brief
Here are paragraphs about some of the music I was listening to this month which I couldn’t devote full reviews to: Jeff Williams – Outlier (Whirlwind Recordings): This band – Josh Arcoleo on tenor,...
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April CD releases in brief
Here are paragraphs about some of the music I was listening to this month which I couldn’t devote full reviews to: Bill Evans – Some Other Time (Resonance Records): This previously unreleased double...
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Jason Palmer/Cédric Hanriot – City Of Poets
(Whirlwind Recordings) Twentieth-century classical music provides the inspiration for a few modern jazz players and composers, but whereas for saxophonist John O’Gallagher it’s all about Webern and for...
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July/August CD releases in brief
Here are paragraphs about some of the music I was listening to these past two months which I couldn’t devote full reviews to: Stein Urheim – Strandebarm (Hubro): The third release on the excellent...
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September CD releases in brief
Here are paragraphs about some of the music I was listening to this past month which I couldn’t devote full reviews to: Pablo Held Trio – Lineage (Pirouet Records): Ten years together – it’s quite an...
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Andre Canniere – The Darkening Blue
(Whirlwind Recordings) The third recording on Whirlwind by the American trumpeter now based in London features a sextet and a batch of 10 original tunes, four of them based on poems by Rilke and one...
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Ingrid & Christine Jensen – Infinitude
(Whirlwind Recordings) The Canadian sisters, trumpeter Ingrid and saxophonist Christine, have Ben Monder on guitar, Fraser Hollins on bass and Jon Wikan on drums and an album entitled for the concept...
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Nigel Price – Heads & Tales Volume 2
(Whirlwind Recordings) This is the follow-up to Volume 1 which the guitarist released in 2011. It’s a two disc set, the second being Price alone or playing with himself via overdubs, the first being...
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LondonJazz: INTERVIEW/CD PREVIEW/ TOUR DATES: Tim Armacost – Time Being...
Swinging for me has always been the main attraction to playing jazz, but that has meant finding the way to feel the music together. The Lonely Woman idea led to these explorations of creating tension...
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