The 50th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections sees a great jazz family uniting to good effect. In the 1970s, hard times for old boppers, the three Heath brothers, Jimmy, Percy and younger sibling Albert formed a fine band with Stanley [...]
I’ve listened to a lot of music. I’ve owned a lot of albums. I’ve yet to see a front cover illustration as, well, I was going to say awful but let’s equivocate and simply say idiosyncratic, as that for Klaus-Dieter. [...]
As his second album Castelfidardo is released, Jonny Kerry talks about the joys and challenges of bringing the piano accordion to the jazz stage. Jonny Kerry could have taken the easy option and become a pianist: lots of well-mapped standards [...]
As a fellow proud resident of south London, I felt compelled out of a sense of geographic loyalty to check out this album by south of the river resident James Beckwith. He’s a keyboardist and composer and Long Distance is [...]
