Giant Steps presents short chapters on 25 musicians from the British Caribbean, African and Asian (including West Asia) communities in the UK. The chapters include one American, Rod Youngs, who has settled in this country. It also presents a short [...]
Moses Boyd presented a set of material from his Mercury Prize nominated album Dark Matter with an augmented version of his Exodus group. The music was more acoustic than that on the album, and there were extended solos for the members [...]
Saxophonist Binker Golding became known on the jazz scene through his Binker & Moses collaboration with drummer Moses Boyd which was deservedly feted as one of the best groups of the new London wave. He has always had an interest [...]
The pandemic has led, perhaps unsurprisingly, to a significant increase in the number of solo piano albums. A month or so ago I reviewed an excellent solo album by Jason Moran on my website, and just a few days ago [...]
Kjetil Mulelid is a young Norwegian pianist who normally plays in a trio with bass player Bjørn Marius Hegge and drummer Andreas Winther (album reviewed here). Mulelid is a graduate of the renowned jazz course at NTNU in Trondheim and [...]
This three-track EP comes out of the recording for the Krononaut album released in September 2020, which was a collaboration between drummer Martin France and producer and guitarist Leo Abrahams. That full album attracted a lot of attention for its [...]
ConcertOTO – Matchless Records MRCD 104. November 2012 Iklectik Live One – Matchless Records MRCD 103. November 2016 Bean Soup and Bouquets – Matchless Records MRCD 101. 17 February 2020 Nous – Matchless Records MRCD 102. 22 February 2020 Free [...]
This 3-CD box set of unreleased recordings by the Kurt Edelhagen Jazz Orchestra made for the German Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) radio station in Cologne presents a fascinating snapshot of an important episode in the history of European jazz. The collection [...]
Afrofuturism, Kansas City-born saxophonist Logan Richardson’s fifth album, has a fascinating narrative thread through blues-influenced ensemble pieces interspersed with short spoken word pieces, ballads, duets. and a tribute to trap, a type of hip hop. In this, Richardson’s concept reminds [...]
This book presents a series of conversations between author Andy Hamilton and improvising musician Steve Beresford. It follows the pattern established in Hamilton’s 2007 book with Lee Konitz, Conversations on the Improviser’s Art. The conversations are lightly edited and initiated either [...]
