The Chosen One

  James Brandon Lewis is a tenor for the times, and then some. Undoubtedly one of the most important voices in contemporary jazz he’s stunning in both the volume of…

 Now in to their second decade the band Snowpoet occupy a fairly unique position in modern music.  The press release for the album takes several stabs at describing them and…

Few living jazz artists have made such a consistent contribution to the music over the last five decades as David Murray. At eighty years old he still, in some ways,…

  Here’s one of those debut albums that feels like a statement for the times. Spanish born trumpet and flugelhorn player Milena Casado and composer has been mentored by the…

  Following up their acclaimed debut (Arctic Riff 2020) the ECM dream-team combo of US tenor veteran Joe Lovano and the polish Marcin Wasilewski trio return for a studio set…

Rising trumpet star Poppy Daniels is always in-demand as a session musician on the busy UK scene, appearing with artists such as Nix Northwest, Blue Lab Beats and Komodo Horns.…

There’s something exiting about enduring groups whose members are prolific, busy and far-ranging in their individual activities but return on a regular, if occasional basis to a beloved project. That’s…

Perhaps three years ago Tomorrow’s Warriors founder (and lest we forget the first ever jazz recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music) Gary Crosby took me aside at a gig…

Yet another shape-shifting and wholly original album for the German born saxophonist and composer who has found her natural musical home on the progressive New York scene via an exciting…

  It’s quite a statement that for their first album in five years and their debut on the Blue Note label The Branford Marsalis Quartet have chosen to exclusively record…

  One of the breakout jazz acts of 2024 was LA’s SML ( Small Medium Large). Two thirds of this new trio – saxophonist Josh Johnson and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann…

The fine, young, UK-based players keep coming! Seeing Ezra Collective collecting a BRIT a few weeks ago felt like a great accolade not just for the phenomenal band themselves but…