When the young British trumpeter, composer and bandleader, Laura Jurd, released her debut album “Landing Ground” in 2012 on the label Chaos Collective, it was as if the Harry...
Mike Casey has been making waves in the jazz scene for some time now and his new album ‘ The Sound Of Surprise: Live at The Side Door’ is a gem. Recorded live in one...
Cleveland based saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio continues to expand his discography with the release of “Quantum Man” (Dot Time Records DT9058). Quantum Man is quite a departure...
Miss Harold aka Gigi does it again… with a limited edition LP to be released on 33 Jazz Records late in January 2017. Her vocals on the new album are multi-faceted, refreshing,...
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and Eastern Europe opened up to the West, including the quick merger of East and West Germany, the jazz drummer Jochen Ruecker (born 1975)...
Threestyle have performed in over 60 countries, and their latest single spent four weeks at number one on Groove jazz music charts and 12 months on the Billboard chart. Road To...
Peter Brotzmann sent me a copy of his book ‘Graphic Works 1959-2016’ a little while ago and it has sat on my desk for a couple of months. Not because I was not...
The essence of jazz is being timeless and that is exactly what marks this album. “Is seeing believing?” transports us to a point when jazz was the now and it spread like a...
in 1994, jazz legend Shirley Horn performed “Here’s To Life” at the North Sea Jazz Festival with the Metropole Orchestra, conducted by Dick Bakker. I celebrate...
The CD – “Don Byas meets the Jacobs Brothers” is not just a collection of songs. It gives a picture of an interesting part of Dutch jazz history: the mix of European...
World-class Steinway pianist Esteban Alvarez has written music for a variety of ensembles, orchestras, and chamber groups in his time– from the Latin Jazz Ensemble, the Caribe...
