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Andrew Taylor-Dawson

On this unearthed live recording, Heartcore records delivers a time capsule, transporting the listener to the heady days of 1990s live jazz in New York. Kurt Rosenwinkel delighted audiences every Tuesday during an eight-year residency at Smalls club. This extraordinary [...]

UK afro-jazz fusion outfit TC & The Groove Family are releasing We Have Each Other on 7 June. It is a fiery new EP that builds on the heady brew of influences that went into their debut album, First Home. [...]

1985 Reissue

Originally released in 1985, Song of the Motherland is a dub-poetry album released by spoken word artist AnkAnum, formerly known as Anum Iyapo. It has been regarded in some circles as a lost classic, and from listening to the heady [...]

On Fragments, German double bassist and composer Tabea Kind (b.1999) serves up an intoxicating and immersive debut, rich in emotion and melody and imbued with a sense of wandering exploration. Tabea Kind originally hails from Karlsruhe in Germany. Her teachers [...]

NikNak (Nicole Raymond) has been turning heads for a few years with her distinctive approach to electronic music and turntablism. On this, her fourth album, she weaves an Afro-futurist opus from a multitude of influences. Imbued with her interests in [...]

Pianist and composer Daan Herweg delights on this tight ten-track set that fuses jazz tradition, touches of classical piano and a forward-looking approach. Herweg, a prolific figure on the Dutch and European jazz scenes as well aa a teacher at [...]

Rec. 2011

Recorded in 2011 at a performance in Boulder. Colorado, ‘Old Main Chapel’ is a fine document of a collaboration between three musicians at the height of their powers. The cornetist and trumpeter Ron Miles – who sadly passed away in [...]

Various Venues. 26-28 April (review of Sunday)

Brick Lane Jazz Festival served up three days of diverse jazz spread across more than ten venues. Now in its third year, the festival works perfectly in the vibrant, bustling surrounds of Brick Lane with its rabbit warren of vintage [...]

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