Album of the Week
Tom Ollendorff, Where in the World, Fresh Sound
The melodicist's melodicist scores a winner once again.
Iiro Rantala, Trinity, ACT ***
Édith Piaf and Duke Ellington classics win the day on this trip down memory lane of a piano trio outing recorded in a...
Theo Croker, Sullivan Fortner, Play, ACT
Sublime melancholia from the trumpet and piano playing duo
Rufus Wainwright with the Pacific Jazz Orchestra, I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Wainwright Does Weill, Pacific Jazz Orchestra / Thirty Tigers
Crackles with life enough to conjure Kurt Weill's depictions of colourful trouble and strife.
Dhafer Youssef, Shiraz, ACT
The bar is set high when you come to a Youssef album. ‘Generalife Gardens’ is pretty extraordinary. If you listen to only one...
Iain Ballamy, Riversphere, Vol. 1, Babel
The Ballamy purple patch continues.
Gregory Groover Jr, Old Knew, Criss Cross Jazz
Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree?
John O’Gallagher, Ancestral, Whirlwind
Outstanding, original work. Albums like Ancestral make me change the way I think about what is possible in 21st century jazz all over...
Don Was & The Pan-Detroit Ensemble, Groove In The Face Of Adversity, Mack Avenue
Introducing the new album of the week
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade, Tokyo, ECM
A long established Austrian and American trio recording in Japan that continues to push forward.
Jim Black and the Schrimps, Better You Don’t, Intakt
Avant sounds right up the street of anyone into punk jazz particularly if you are - like us - Led Bib fans.
Tanhai Collective, Circa 2019, No Label
On an upward trajectory profile wise all the time. Mind and body grooves from Tanhai Collective hit the spot more than ever. The...
Anat Fort, The Dreamworld of Paul Motian, Sunnyside
A pianist who played with Paul Motian not long before the drummer died, Anat Fort delivers a stirring pastoralism and serene transcendental flow...
Ivan Farmakovskiy, Epic Power, Steeplechase ****
A classy, broodily dramatic piano trio recording kept back for years and years featuring Keith Jarrett Standards trio drummer Jack DeJohnette and bass...
Rachael and Vilray, West of Broadway, Concord Jazz ****
Best yet from the witty duo on this marvel from Manhattan.
Iain Ballamy and Daniel Szabo, No Blues on the Danube, Fonó Budai Zeneház **** recommended
Waltzing into the album of the week slot, it's an Anglo-Hungarian collaboration that features the Loose Tubes tenorist Iain Ballamy, recorded live in...
Dino Saluzzi, El Viejo Caminante, ECM *****
These "old wanderings" beautifully set for bandoneon and guitars take your breath away beyond genre. They are new today from the nonagenarian Argentinian...
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