The eighth of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), going back and digging deep. This duo album seems less of a departure now than it did to some at the time. Charles Mingus’ former pianist and a devoutly avant-garde saxophone [...]
Ask any jazz aficionado to reel off the names of pianists, bassists, drummers, guitarists, saxophonists or trumpeters and they’ll give you plenty – but jazz violinists? Stéphane Grappelli obviously, Jean-Luc Ponty almost certainly, Regina Carter and Didier Lockwood very likely, [...]
Young British vocalist James Hudson arrives on the recording scene with this polished and exuberant collection of standards, smartly arranged and smoothly performed. James Hudson comes from the East Riding of Yorkshire, the University of Warwick (where he was awarded [...]
What’s the expression: when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade? Lockdown has given musicians around the world the mother of all lemon-flavoured hangovers this last year. Unable to fulfil their usually prolific touring schedule, Marbin has done the next [...]
There’s a tune here from 1966 written by Jack Bruce, the late and legendary bassist, that for all his journeys through blues-rock, fusion and classical, sounds unlike anything he is famous for. Snow is a striking five-minute dialogue between double [...]
