The nominations of writers in All About Jazz inspired me to check out Fergus McCreadie, in particular his latest album “Stream”, already...

I wrote in December, 2023 of the lead-off single: choppy organ chords, soaring flights of guitar, strident drums and percussion in a...

Thanks to NICK SALOMAN for the opportunity to listen to another new release from his Blue Matter label. The album starts with ‘Stars in...

A review and interview with TIM HUNTER Can I ask you why you have released your latest album "Connecting with Faith" under the name...

With the same band on board as “The Scale” (see separate review), I looked forward to listening to another album three years on. Although...

The opener is impressive: a basic drum pattern (Adam Fairclough) grounding the opening title track into a groove as French chanteuse...

After the impressive single in which The Space Lords delivered an amazing track about the loneliness of space, here comes the anticipated...

This is the fifth album by Axis, seven-part suite of electroacoustic excursions, recorded this time from saxophonist Ron Caines outwards...

Phil Jackson discusses The Luck of Eden Hall’s classic album “The Acceleration of Time” with ‘Curvey’ as he is affectionately known, and...

Maurizio ‘Angus’ Bidoli was encountered by Nick Saloman and The Frond at a gig in Rome in the early 90s, where Nick was given a cassette...

Some little snippets from my entry on CHARLES LLOYD in THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE: “On his early albums Lloyd’s tenor sax playing owed much to...

Following his successful trio of “Trios” albums last year, Charles Lloyd is back in age defying form at 86 (and I just heard BOB DYLAN,...

“A Haunting at Sea” is a different kind of album from Steven McCabe than his long-lived ELEGANT SIMPLICITY project. For a start, it is...

Quoting from what I wrote for THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE: “On some tracks Ponty handled all the instruments and ‘effects’ himself, with only a...

Opening a very early page in Martin C Strong’s ultimate music discography (1920- 1976), I came across SYD BARRETT. Being in a psychedelic...

I know I am biased but the latest Acid Dragon was a cover-to-cover read for me. It starts with Thierry’s usual insightful editorial:...

I remember reviewing this album in 2006 and, checking my archives, described it at the time as “intelligent fractured pop, flowing like a...

Having written the first part of my review in DISS, I finally got around to listening to the rest of this ‘blast from the past’, a...

Let’s talk about “Talk”. Well, for a start, the artwork was light years away from Roger Dean’s, a sign of the times perhaps. The line-up...

So prolific is Bill Nelson that “Powertron” has had to wait 8 years for release, but listening to it I have no idea why it has taken this...