I wouldn’t like to presume but my monthly postings have not yet caused enough offence or bored the readers of...
A group of musicians from Bergen in Norway joined forces to put a spin on what they want to hear...
Portico Quartet still sound like nothing you ever heard before. Well, maybe some stuff, you can pick out the inspirations...
Hardly the most exotic of locations, Leeds however is home to a hotbed of polygenesis hybrid bands, whose musical allusions...
Sonic shipmates on the cosmic cruising Battleship Ethel, Carl Didur and Michael McLean’s equally freeform Kosmiche enterprise, Zacht Automaat,...
Adamski ‘Revolt’ Review & Contemporary Jazz special. The first of my regular columns for God Is In The TV features...
It’s a little nerve wracking to do a telephone interview with a living legend, particularly one who has been in...
Delivered during 2012, and continuing into 2013, Warner Bros. concatenate series of iconic jazz albums by some of the scene’s...
With their unique modernist take on jazz, the rambunctious and highly articulate The Bad Plus take the stoic “highbrow” aloofness...
Allowed back for a second month, the Monolith Blogger column deliberates on a duo of new releases; the first a...
What if Steinbeck and Kerouac were drinking buddies? What if Lou Reed and Jacques Brel wrote songs together? What if...
With a vociferous alto saxophone, pecking, clarion call introduction Rudresh Mahanthappa sets in motion the very first strains of a...
Nominated for its “hallowed” tones, ‘Udoyeleg’ graced the erudite Jazzman label’s most recent Spiritual Jazz Volume 3: Europe...
