1 Vijay Iyer - Reimagining - Pi2 Miles Davis - Complete On The Corner (advance) - Columbia3 Robert Wyatt - Comic Opera - Domino4 Floratone - Floratone - Blue Note5 Charlie Hunter - Mistical - Concord
Sample Features In This Month's Issue-----------------------------------------Gwilym Simcock - Keys To The City - The pianist emerged fully formed after a dazzling spell at music college with a firm classical and jazz grounding and then quickly found his feet winning prizes, playing with Kenny Wheeler and Dave Holland and quickly making a reputation for himself as an extraordinary new talent, making him the most talked about pianist in the UK since the early days of Django Bates. Stuart...
1 Dave Stapleton - The House Always Wins Red Eye2 Elan Mehler Quartet - Scheme For Thought Brownswood3 The Quartet - Illuminated Helium4 Susanna - Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos Rune Grammofon5 Maria Schneider - Sky Blue mariaschneider.com
Empirical stormed Glastonbury at the Jazz Lounge last year and a year on from released their stunning self-titled debut on Courtney Pine’s Destin-E Records. They are simply one of the hottest young bands around. They made a huge impact at the Jazzwise To The Power of Ten Festival supporting their mentor and label boss Courtney Pine, and we have a taster of their brilliant performance for you to enjoy here:
Sample Features In This Month's Issue ----------------------------------------- Julian Joseph - The Language of Truth - Pianist and composer Julian Joseph embarks this month on the premiere of his most ambitious project to date, a jazz opera called Bridegetower, commissioned by the City of London Festival and English Touring Opera, inspired in part by the 200th anniversary of the abolition of transatlantic slavery, with a libretto by writer Mike Phillips. Rashied Ali - Interstellar...
Sample Features In This Month's Issue-----------------------------------------Claire Martin - Slowly but surely - For her latest album, He Never Mentioned Love, she pays tribute to one of her singing idols, Shirley Horn, for a sincere tribute that features Martin at her very best. Jane Cornwell talks to Claire as she prepares to fly to New York for a major residency.Keith Tippett - The Tipping Point - Duncan Heining talks to Tippett about a renewed burst of creativity in his musical life and...
1 Tim Lapthorn Seventh Sense Basho2 Henri Texier Strada Sextet Water Alert Label Bleu3 McLaughlin/Pastorius/Williams Trio of Doom Columbia4 Andrew Hill Change Blue Note Connoisseur5 Fraud Fraud Babel
1 Empirical Empirical Destin-e2 Knut Rössler-Johannes Vogt Between The Times ACT3 Tim Buckley Blue Afternoon Rhino4 Claire Martin He Never Mentioned Love Linn5 Gabor Szabo Bacchanal Blue Moon
Manu Dibango, the Godfather of the Soul Makossa, returned to London’s Barbican Hall this April for another dazzling night of the funkiest, jazziest, soul-infused African music you will hear anywhere, as he celebrated an amazing 50 years in music by also releasing Lion Of Africa on CD and DVD.
Features Sample Features In This Month's Issue ----------------------------------------- Charles Mingus - Triumph of the Underdog John Surman - Spaces and Places Bob Brookmeyer - The Art of Swing Reviews - Jazz and Beyond From the UK's biggest review section -----------------------------------------
