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Graham Spry

As memories of the COVID pandemic and the associated lockdown begin to recede, so comes the release of the music recorded in those strange times. Maybe the period will eventually come to be seen as a golden time for creativity, [...]

Whereas Shabaka (Shabaka Hutchings) has been called the “young forefather” and the “figurehead” of a whole generation of young British jazz musicians, it is only now he has released a record in his own name rather than under a guise [...]

When the album To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 was released in early 2020 on Chicago-based International Anthem label, by Mancunian multi-instrumentalist and composer Alabaster DePlume (Gus Fairbairn), it was exactly the kind of record a world confronting the [...]

Cornish-born and London-based alto saxophonist Ronan Perrett has been an active member of London’s jazz scene for several years, both as a sideman and as leader of TwoSpeak, a jazz quartet that was a finalist at the international Jazz Juniors [...]

This third release from Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie, Forest Floor is a wonderful album inspired by Scotland’s unique landscape which is both craggy and green. The music is contemporary jazz in the EST and Bad Plus lineage, suffused in Scottish folk [...]

The great California-born tenor saxophonist Mark Turner once again gives free rein to his passion for the deeper themes of Science Fiction, as he did on Lathe of Heaven, his last quartet album on ECM Records and one of the [...]

In Common III is the third in a series of albums released on Whirlwind Recordings since October 2018 from quintets co-led by tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III and guitarist Matthew Stevens. Walter Smith III has played with much of the [...]

Mark Lockheart is a saxophonist and composer who first entered national consciousness in the 1980s with Loose Tubes, and was later co-leader of Polar Bear. His albums with Jasper Hoiby and Liam Noble or in his own groups have most [...]

Jorge Rossy is a familiar name to those who have followed the career of Brad Mehldau, in whose original trio Rossy played drums for more than ten years. In fact, Rossy’s connection with Mehldau dates back as far as 1993, [...]

It is a tribute to tenor saxophonist Alex Hitchcock that he has become a respected name in London’s currently vibrant jazz scene, where it is hard to stand out in a crowd of so many highly accomplished young musicians vying [...]

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