KEVIN KASTNING and BRUNO RÅBERG – SILENT DIMENSIONS (Greydisc Records) (2024)
I have reviewed Kevin Kastning’s music before on DISS. On this Kevin plays contra and subcontra guitars with 16, 24 and 36 strings. In...
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Jul 12 min read
JACK BRUCE – SONGS FOR A TAILOR (Cherry Red/ Esoteric Recordings) (1969/ 2024) (26th July) (2 x CD + 2 x Blu Ray or 1 x RM g/f LP with fully restored artwork).
With remastering by Stephen W Tayler, the two CDs offer bonus tracks with alternative mixes and first/ second takes of some of the...
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Jul 11 min read
THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE IS HERE!
MARTIN C STRONG has sent a picture of the finished book so I can confirm that the long-awaited successor to his popular Great Rock...
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Jul 12 min read
CHRIS SEARLE – TALKING THE GROOVE: JAZZ WORDS FROM THE MORNING STAR (Jazz in Britain -Bandcamp) (2024)
I wasn’t sent this for review, but decided to buy it myself as I had enjoyed Chris Searle’s “Forward Groove” book (2008) so much. This...
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Jul 12 min read
2024 – SPRING INTO SUMMER: SECOND QUARTER TOP NEW RELEASES reviewed on DISS
In alphabetical order (maximum of 3 reissues per 10, all from 2024 & reviewed in 2024): please note genres are nearest approximations....
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Jun 262 min read
JANEL LEPPIN AND ANTHONY PIROG – NEW MOON IN THE EVIL AGE CD/ 2 x LP (Cuneiform Records)
LP one is 10 tracks of instrumental duets and LP two is a 9-track vocal album. This couple play together in ENSEMBLE VOLCANIC ASH, named...
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Jun 262 min read
JANEL LEPPIN – ENSEMBLE VOLCANIC ASH - TO MARCH IS TO LOVE (2024) (Cuneiform Records)
Janel Leppin has appeared on numerous albums encompassing various genres, and as a member of PRIESTS. She is joined on her latest...
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Jun 193 min read
LONDON UNDERGROUND – LIVE AT THE 19TH DREAM OF DR. SARDONICUS FESTIVAL 2023 (Regal Crabomophone/ Fruits de Mer Records – pre-order now for 13th August, 2024 release)
London Underground were formed in Florence in 1998 (apparently there is a connection to great Italian keyboard driven prog band...
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Jun 192 min read
SOFT MACHINE - HØVIKODDEN 1971 4 x CD/ 4 x LP (Cuneiform Records) (part one)
For the first time the entire two nights of the legendary concert at the Henie- Onstad Art Centre near Oslo can be heard in glorious...
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Jun 192 min read
SIAPIAU – PI (Discus Music) (2023) and CHRIS SEARLE – TALKING THE GROOVE- JAZZ WORDS FROM THE MORNING STAR (2024)
I take the unusual step here of reviewing and album at the same time as a book just released on Jazz in Britain books with a 2 x CD...
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Jun 191 min read
HÉRVE PEREZ – L’APRÈS MONDES with HENRY HERTEMAN and various types of meditative music (2024) (Bandcamp)
Herve Perez is a saxophonist and shakuhachi player (a Japanese end-blown flute) and self-confessed laptop music maker and sound designer,...
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Jun 42 min read
NIKOLOV - IVANOVIĆ UNDECTET - DYSTOPIA (RUE DES BALKANS) (2024) (Release date 21st June)
This release is a pan-European project involving musicians from Bulgaria, France, Macedonia and Serbia in an eleven-piece led by pianist/...
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Jun 42 min read
SRDJAN IVANOVIĆ – MODULAR (RUE DES BALKANS) (2024)
It’s always nice to be introduced to a new label by the sending of a physical CD rather than just a download (It rarely happens these...
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May 281 min read
THELONIUS MONK – CRISS CROSS – re-release on Columbia/ Pure Pleasure (2024)
This is an LP release of Monk’s second Columbia album after “Monk’s Dream” and is generally regarded as even better despite much of it...
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Apr 231 min read
THE LATEST IN JAZZ: MUSIC FROM OUTER SPACE BY SUN RA & PLANET EARTH FROM ART TATUM (2024)
It was noticeable that there were two SUN RA albums on RSD: a “The Showcase Live in Chicago, 1976-77” on 2 x LP (and 2 x CD) and, strange...
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Apr 232 min read
MORE OF THE LATEST IN JAZZ – MAGNE THORMODSAETER, TIM GARLAND, BILL FRISELL and KAMASI WASHINGTON (2024)
Scanning through the latest jazz releases as of 21st April, I have picked out the latest to investigate. Thormodsaeter is a bassist...
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Mar 201 min read
BRUFORD – ONE OF A KIND (1979/ 2024) (Winterfold Records/ Cherry Red) (LP)
Following the Jazz Rock Fusion powerhouse “Feels Good to Me”, the group name BRUFORD was adopted for “One of a Kind”. The line-up is the...
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Mar 201 min read
A YEAR OF ALICE COLTRANE: THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT (1971/ 2024) (Impulse!) (2 LP, 2 CD, DL)
Great news for ALICE COLTRANE fans, with the release of “Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert” on Impulse! Alice Coltrane had just...
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Mar 201 min read
APRIL RECORDS – A JAZZ LABEL FROM COPENHAGEN YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF
April Records has a number of new releases out: I have only been able to listen to a selection of tracks and one full album by RASMUS...
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Mar 162 min read
CHRIS POTTER – EAGLES’ POINT (2024) (Edition Records)
Chris Potter is a highly talented tenor and soprano saxophonist who mustn’t be missed for anyone who has even just a passing interest in...
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