Singer, radio show host and doer of all things jazz in West Sussex, Jenny Green has just released her second CD, Always and Forever. As fellow jazz vocalist Gill Manly states: “Beautifully produced by Claire Martin and accompanied by the [...]
Arranger/composer and saxophonist Bob Mintzer‘s latest offering was recorded in 2019 with the WDR Big Band in Cologne. Having studied with, reviewed and followed Mintzer’s output closely since 1977 I would nominate this CD as his finest work to date. [...]
Clarinettist Joe Traina‘s CD Tip of the Hat elucidates his full and liquid clarinet tone along with his eloquent melodic readings of nine timeless standards. His coda of a minute’s worth of the cadenza from Artie Shaw’s Concerto for Clarinet [...]
This double album reissue from 1969 features one LP with Stan Tracey’s Big Band of the time (full personnel listing below) and one with quartet featuring Peter King. There is a Shakespearian theme to the big band album. The titles [...]
