These days an odd image repeatedly appears in this writer’s mind: the UK in the process of being shrink-wrapped. Perhaps such experiences are understandable during these current Covid and Brexit times, but they make globe-spanning albums like this one feel especially [...]
The seventh of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), music haunted by the ghost of an unseen theatre production. Mike Westbrook has such an extraordinary back catalogue it’s easy to overlook even some choicer items from the era when recordings [...]
“There’s a famous saying in Portugal and Brazil,” says UK vocalist Clare Foster: “Those that sing send their troubles away.” Her new album reworks jazz standards with the rhythms of South America, and includes some of her own compositions too. [...]
A steady stream of new, inventive music from Norway continues to appear on Øra Fonogram, the Trondheim-based label. Stiklinger (meaning ‘cuttings’) is the second release for the label from composer and vocalist Karoline Wallace and is a suite of original [...]
Tony Dudley-Evans reviews the first four albums on the NEWJAiM label: NEWJAiM (short for New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings) is a new label established in Newcastle by Wesley Stephenson who decided to move into recording as a result of [...]
