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Will Glaser: Climbing In Circles

By CHRIS MAY

Women musicians seem more inclined to describe their albums as “playful" than their male counterparts. We need not spend time speculating on the reasons for that here. Playful, however, is the word that best sums up this delightful trio album by two generations of male musicians. Young bloods drummer Will Glaser and saxophonist Matthew Herd have ...

Climbing In Circles

By WILL GLASER

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Pre Lewd; Mood Indigo; Mopti; Fish Pillows; I’m An Old Cowhand; Mumbo Jumbo; Lonely; Song For The Snake Man; The Magician Longs To See.

Laura Jurd: Getting Elemental

By CHRIS MAY

Whatever other delights come along during 2020 in the way of great jazz albums, it is a near certainty that among the joint number ones will be To The Earth (Edition) by Dinosaur. Formed as the Laura Jurd Quartet in 2010 by students at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and still led by ...

Drummers as Bandleaders: An Alternative Top Ten Albums

By CHRIS MAY

Drummers have been key members of every band which has changed the course of jazz history, from Max Roach with Charlie Parker to Elvin Jones with John Coltrane and onwards. Yet drummers have been the leaders of a surprisingly small proportion of landmark bands themselves. Chick Webb in the 1920s was the first of the few. ...

Pigfoot: Pigfoot Shuffle

By IAN PATTERSON

Once a taste for mischief is acquired it's hard to rein it in. Pigfoot was having way, way too much fun on 21st Century Acid Trad (Village Life Records, 2014) to go straight on this, its second outing. If the former happily warped New Orleans jazz, Pigfoot Shuffle applies a similar concept to a broader pool ...

Issie Barratt: Every Solo Is A New Invitation

By DUNCAN HEINING

Issie Barratt is one of the most significant jazz educators in Britain today. From 1999-2004, Barratt was head of Jazz at Trinity College of Music but her role as Artistic Director of the National Youth Jazz Collective has been of even greater importance in developing young jazz talent. Now in its, thirteenth year, NYJC goes from ...

The Long Game

By LIAM NOBLE

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Rain On My Birthday; Between You And Me; Unmemoried Man; Head Of Marketing; Head First; Head Over Heels; Pink Mice; Flesh And Blood; Matcha Mind.

Shuffle

By CHRIS BATCHELOR

Label: Pokey Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Heartbreak Hotel; Dance of the Seven Veils; Pusherman; Jailhouse Rock/Hound Dog; The look of Love; Isis & Osiris/Dove Sono; Black Dog; For Once in My Life; Love Letters/Song to the Evening Star; Wives and Lovers.

Pigfoot Shuffle

Label: Pokey Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Heartbreak Hotel; Dance of the Seven Veils; Pusherman; Jailhouse Rock/Hound Dog; The look of Love; Isis & Osiris/Dove Sono; Black Dog; For Once in My Life; Love Letters/Song to the Evening Star; Wives and Lovers.