Last month saxophonist Phil Bancroftreleased two albums on his new label – and streaming service – Myriad Streams. The first is a reissue of his 2004 quartet CD, Headlong, with international stars Mike Walker on guitar, Reid Anderson (of the Bad Plus) on bass and Thomas Strønen on drums; [...]
Back in the 1970s, around five years after they started performing, a group of young siblings from Aberdeen, Mississippi, known as the Staples Jr Singers despite being unrelated to the older and more famous Staples family, released their first album, [...]
Recorded in concert at Munich’s Muffathalle in September 2004, ‘September Night’ represents the great Polish trumpeter Stanko’s classic quartet with pianist Marcin Wasilewski, bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz, at the absolute top of its form. It was a [...]
No one could say that the great English composer and bandleader Mike Westbrook has settled into pipe-and-slippers mode for his late career. Although he was 87 when this was recorded and is 88 now, his latest ensemble Band of Bands [...]
