Heritage arrives with nothing behind it. Andreas Paragioudakis has issued it himself on vinyl and CD, and it sits outside the ...
Every conversation I’ve had with jazz friends lately seems to arrive at the same observation: Bill Frisell is everywhere. I ...
And the Birds Sang is a survivor’s record, and there is no reading it any other way. Jazz In Britain issues it in an edition ...
So here we have a CD for review by a man with long credentials. That can be daunting for a reviewer who may not enjoy or ...
Some records come with a paper trail; this one comes mostly on trust. Josh Warren a twenty-something bassist and composer ...
I’ll keep Pat Thomas where I put him: in his own category. Four decades of free improvisation, electronics and deep immersion ...
Vinyl has never been Savant’s natural habitat. The label made its name on compact disc. The times it has cut an LP have felt ...
Reinvention can be a risky business, but British-born guitarist Jay Matharu embraces it wholeheartedly on Disillusion. Best ...
Adam Scrimshire has spent a career being reliably good, and I own most of the evidence. Bring Our Light To Every Corner is ...
Nat Birchall has long occupied a unique place in British jazz. For more than two decades, the Manchester-based saxophonist, ...
Every so often a record turns up on the doormat, and I have to hold my hand up: I knew neither the artist nor the label when the vinyl landed. Waterfall Records is a small Berlin independent dealing ...
Progressive music has always revelled in asking awkward questions, and Anthony Garone’s OK, But Why? is an album built around ...