jazz – The Sound Projector

28/02/2021 Ed Pinsent

The Anarchists at the Keyboard

Excellent guitar-led avant-rock music by the Russian duo USSSY on their album Po Krugu (KOOLARROW RECORDS KACA044). This combo have

19/02/2021 Steve Pescott

An Opening Shut Case

TOC Indoor FRANCE CIRCUM-DISC CIDI 2001 CD (2020) TOC & Dave Rempis Closed for Safety Reasons FRANCE CIRCUM-DISC CIDI 2002

17/02/2021 nausika

The Sojourner: a singular achievement of eclectic jazz pop / improv virtuosity

The Ensemble Al Salaam, The Sojourner, United States, Strata-East Records, SES-7418 vinyl LP (1974) / Japan, P-Vine, PLP 6950 vinyl

18/01/2021 Paul Khimasia Morgan

Effect of Staggered Wholes

Meier / Hanes / Amberg Staggered Twisted Angled SWITZERLAND WIDE EAR RECORDS WER046 CD (2020) This young trio of tenor

16/01/2021 Ed Pinsent

The Art of the Garden

Double CD The Monkey In The Abstract Garden (OVNI OVN0003) from French saxophonist Alexandra Grimal released on the Ovni label

13/01/2021 Ed Pinsent

Four Jujubes from July

Daniel Kordik is here with Poznova (LOM AUDIO LOM FIELDS 08) released on a Slovakian label and sent to us

11/01/2021 Ed Pinsent

Three Jaunts from July

Metamorphosis (VETO RECORDS 020) is a very good record of composed jazz music by Laura Schuler, the Swiss violinist and

27/12/2020 Ed Pinsent

Jazz Standards

Latest item from Zeitkratzer, the German avant-garde ensemble led by Reinhold Friedl, is called The Shape Of Jazz To Come

26/12/2020 Ed Pinsent

Three Brief Reports from June

Eigenwert (ANALOGMusiq amsq123) was made by the team of Worsel Strauss (keyboards) and Schani Wolf (electronics, guitars), working in Frankfurt.

19/12/2020 Ed Pinsent

Where Fortune Smiles

Here’s a gem of enigmatic mystery-chamber-jazz minimal compositional restraint…the players are Brodie West, Evan Cartwright, and Simon Toldam, and the