(Rhino) This CD box set, available also and more importantly in vinyl, brings together five terrific Coltrane albums from the first half of the 1960s – Giant Steps, Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson), Olé Coltrane, Plays The Blues and… Read More ›
LP review
Hans Koller – Retrospection
(Stoney Lane Records/Impossible Ark Records vinyl) There are three LPs of music in this beautifully produced limited edition package, and all the music is available to download as well, though it would be a pity to miss out on the… Read More ›
Kit Downes – Tricko
(Coup Perdu – available on CD and LP) Tricko is the British pianist Kit Downes’ duo project with cellist Lucy Railton. They play pieces written specially for this project by Kit. Downes may be best known in the jazz and… Read More ›
Johannes Haage – Drift
(Shoebill Music SB15009) Although I am listening to this trio album – Johannes Haage on guitar, Matthias Pichler on bass and Joe Smith on drums – on CD, this is a “not for sale” promotional version of the album. Shoebill, which Haage… Read More ›
Janis Görlich’s Kleiner Dicker Mönch
Bei Nacht (Limited Edition LP available on shoebillmusic.com) Drummer and tuned percussion player Janis Görlich’s trio means Fat Little Monk in English, and the band – Henric “Thor Oscar” Olsson is on electric guitar and banjo; Jonas Hauer is on… Read More ›
Simon Spillett
Square One (limited edition 12” 180g vinyl LP, Gearbox GB 1512) It’s great to see this record pressed by Gearbox Records, specialists in vinyl releases, exclusively on 180g vinyl, and this music, steeped in 1950s and ’60s bebop as it… Read More ›
Examples Of Twelves
Things Will Be (Impossible Ark Recordings IALP12) Review by JJ Wheeler First off, I must mention that this album immediately falls into the ‘hip’ category, not least because of its personnel of distinctive, almost “underground” London-based musicians, but also because… Read More ›
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