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Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this cheerful set is the absence of Dave Holland. Although he toured with the trio this summer, all the acoustic bass sounds here are synthesised. Were funds ...

I have to admit that I found listening to this album rather tedious. With the exception of The Time, the tracks have a sameness about them and, as you might expect, each is dominated by Ginger Baker’s ...

Thirty-five-year-old Shabaka Hutchings’ new album features his South African collective, The Ancestors, and follows up Wisdom Of Elders from 2016. It’s a grandiose project – an hour-long “sonic poem” ...

Annette Peacock has worked in both modern jazz and progressive rock fields, but is probably best known for providing numerous compositions – Butterflies, Blood, Touching etc – for pianist Paul Bley in ...

Anthony George Coe was born in Canterbury in 1934 and began playing the clarinet around 1948. He had classical training on the instrument from Paddy Purcell (a pupil of Charles Draper) and took ...