Partly a recollection of fondly recalled childhood moments sitting on a boat listening to softly tolling church bells and conjuring melodies in his head, and partly a solo exploration of considerable scope and compositional texture, John Surman’s latest album is a very personal statement.
With Maze, their coruscating uncategorisable album of snarling intent and improvising candour, trioVD have come of age.
Marcus Miller returns to the UK this month for a string of high profile concerts as his latest album Renaissance is released.
With an all-American band Claire Martin delves even deeper into a world she knows so well, the inspirational Great American Songbook.
The Brad Mehldau Trio has an aura about it that no one could have predicted when they first came together.
Just months before Esbjörn Svensson died aged just 44 in 2008 EST – the groundbreaking and hugely influential piano trio that Svensson formed with Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström – recorded a great deal of material in a Sydney studio that has never seen the light of day.
With the great Robert Wyatt singing backing vocals on their new album and a storming opening bass riff enough to blast the band and anyone in their wake into the earthquake danger zone, Andy Robson welcomes the return of the acronym-loving alphabetically disordered Get The Blessing, who have taken the Brit-Jazz scene by the scruff of the neck and lived to tell the tale t’s been a long time coming – almost three years – but Get The Blessing’s new release, OC DC is finally out there for world...
Deeply affected by the blindness of his sister bassist Jasper Høiby channelled the concern and love he feels for her into Walking Dark the latest Phronesis album, which is released this month.
On Be Good, Gregory Porter’s astonishing follow-up to Water, 2011’s Jazzwise album of the year, Porter, one of the most accomplished jazz singer-songwriters to emerge in decades, picks up just where he left off on Water – but goes still further and deeper on the new album.
Blue Touch Paper heralds a stimulating phase in the music of jazz, TV, and film soundtrack composer Colin Towns.