Alastair Robertson was a great contributor to British and American jazz through his Hep Records label, which he founded in 1974 and was still operating at the time of his death. Alastair discovered jazz via the Voice of America Jazz [...]
Fabled British singer Elaine Delmar‘s first album in several years, Speak Low (as Elaine writes on the liner note) “is a selection of my favourite songs, arranged by some of my wonderful colleagues and collaborators past and present”. A fine [...]
Liverpool-based vocalist Ni Maxine and her quintet performed to a capacity crowd on 21 April at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room. The programme – entitled Ode To Billie Holiday – included no fewer than ten songs associated with Lady [...]
American bassist John Goldsby, resident in Cologne since 1994, has just released, Swim for Your Life, his fourth duo album with pianist Billy Test. Both current members of the WDR Big Band they explore an intimate shared single voice on [...]
This 2-disc release of tracks from both the UK and USA is a wonderful compendium of modern jazz from 1957. Dundee-born Scots trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar (1930-93) appears on no less than four tracks on Disc 1, including the Ronnie Scott-led [...]
Frank Griffith reviewed one of the last gigs of Nigel Price’s mammoth 43-date 2023 tour, which finished on 8 December. Top British guitarist Nigel Price and his trio unleashed a burning two sets at District, a new venue in the [...]
“Mingus” was recorded in 1960 and includes three extra tracks, forty minutes of music, which were recorded at the same time as the “Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus” album. One, the 1933 Arlen/ Koehler classic “Stormy Weather”, features the same [...]
Florida-based guitarist John Hart was a longtime resident in NYC from 1984-2012, before relocating to Miami for the post of Head Of Jazz Guitar at University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. His NYC years found him working with the [...]
Pianist and arranger/composer, Matt Carter’s debut CD, Read Between The Lines is a refreshing and ambitious work in equal measure. His talented ensemble which includes members of his student cohort from the Royal Academy of Music (from where he recently [...]
Italian pianist and composer Enrico Pieranunzi, has just released another CD with large ensemble for Challenge Records – Chet Remembered. Teamed up with Belgian trumpeter/arranger, Bert Joris and the exemplary Frankfurt Radio Big Band they weave together a moving and [...]
