TUESDAY WONDERLAND - E.S.T.

This is the new country for the Jazz piano trio, classical, psychedelic, wistful and romantic. Bass and drums share centre stage and effects processing with Esbjorn's commanding piano, produces the whole picture and range of ideas and emotions, easily accessible but complex. Live they crank up the dimensions but this disc almost reaches the same plain.

King Crimson Songbook, Vol. 1 - The Crimson Jazz Trio

The Jazz is oblong , the tunes are fragrant but pure fragments, the band reveal a new truth in these rock melodies.

THESE ARE THE VISTAS - THE BAD PLUS

The piano trio is updated with rock production and interpretations, some drum chaos and energetic lead, they discover a new aspect of the jazz tradition.

HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED - BOB DYLAN

This dude rolls down the road by train and Buick finding desolation here and laughter there and personal collisions with stones and Queen Jane and Thin Tom Thumb. He rocks Americana and rolls just like a......dream.

HEJIRA - JONI MITCHELL

This lady travels to escape, travels to discover, the roads are sharp and brilliant, the motel rooms blue, the cities full of sighing jazz, the memories of simpler times. Free like the Coyote or Black Crow she finds refuge in the dusty roads.

POINTS OF VIEW - DAVE HOLLAND QUINTET

The elegant balance of the serenade and melody, the smooth bottom end of Dave's bass and the challenge and invention of his select team of players. Bounce and energy, contemplation and spirit lives here.

IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP NOW - VAN MORRISON

Gloria is on this rolling caravan, the wild children have thrown out the dominoes, the performance burns with mystical warm love so listen to the lion and watch out here comes the night.

WE SHALL OVERCOME - THE SEEGER SESSIONS - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The ragged touring band arrives at the western saloon, sets up on the dusty wooden floor, in front of that wall distressed with bullet holes, tunes up quickly and lets loose. Like a joyful musicians circus they let rip, the brew is strong and true the audience lean or climb on the barrels, the mood is upbeat and drunk on a chorus of fun.

MELTING POT - ZOE RAHMAN

Zoe - angular and vibrant, strong, percussive and melodic, the flow of this piano trio is magnificent. The vision of the compositions tinged with classical bravura, their exposition is glowing and dazzling. Remarkable colours and moods, a rising star indeed.

GRATITUDE - CHRIS POTTER

Chris writes eloquent tributes to the inspiration of the previous jazz modern generations. Steel rainbow frames these perfect pieces, file under grand tour of jazz legends, marvel at the group dialogue, and the fluid horn.

THE ART OF THE TRIO VOL. 4 / BACK AT THE VANGUARD - BRAD MEHLDAU

Blues in London as he exits the film music, Brad leads his first team to the mesh of minds and melody as the classic Jazz piano trio cuts a new path. Energy and intermodulation in 99 for a brilliant chapter in the last phase of a century of Jazz.

THE BAND - THE BAND

Mythic tales from the frontier, the hard life after the civil war, the history in a folk rock hillbilly costume, harmonies and tunes fit for dustbowl heroes, these artisans are fine craftsmen of song. In 69 they seemed the true troubadours of American old time song with the filigree ornamentation of antique reproductions.

11 TRACKS OF WHACK - WALTER BECKER

America is fractured, lost souls, the corruption of money and Californian dreams, the climate of poignant sadness. The silvery thin voice is locked into his own nightmares and steely partnerships. The junkie girl in the photo, the moody girlfriend surfs on Henry's flat hat. Novels of the life in a minute of song.

MOMENTUM - JOSHUA REDMAN ELASTIC BAND

Joshua drives his sax organ drums combo around the Jazz block. Jewels of the urban fusion, Sam's organ shimmers, Jeff's pounding the skins, red blooded sheets of sound check wrapped for the velvet rigour of the night city streets.

A LOVE SUPREME - JOHN COLTRANE

This man is on a mission, beyond the plains, througth the forest, across the canyons, hidden in the clouds are the peaks of his own desire for perfection. And now he can reveal and share these perfect fragments shrouded in this sweet mountain air, the refracted folk memories, the universal tribal melodies, the soul of the saxophone haunts this place, for all time.

TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE - MICHAEL BRECKER

A place in time for Michael's new brotherhood, Metheny on angular guitar, Goldings pushing the stops organically. Together they roll the sharp cards dealt by this modern geometry called jazz, flickering darkness and light combined melodically, the rhyhtm is captured and squared, the cat creeps along the arc, the wolf leaps time in the morning of the night.

AFTER THE RAIN - JOHN MCLAUGHLIN

Coltrane's blues are explored and demons released by this vibrant trio. Fat warm tones from the Hammond, cascading notes from the electric guitar of the leader who brings spirit and colour with depth, and underneath Elvin plays the lines from the true ribbon, following the guidance of the master with magic drums and cymbals.

FACES AND PLACES - JOE ZAWINUL

The global seach touches down in Andalusia, Buenos Aires, Central Africa and a dusty village on the Indian sub continent. Joe fuses the beats from everywhere and finds meaning and the familiar, deja vu, humanity does struggle, strives and sings in all corners of the earth. The synth resounds around the world, the ethnic invention of sound designers rings out in those distant but artistically rich villages on every continent.

AXIS BOLD AS LOVE - JIMI HENDRIX

The numbers added up 1967, if 6 was 9, EXP speed and space rock from this Einstein of the guitar. Mr Electric takes wing and builds bold castles in a moment, their intricate third dimension structures stand forever as the poetry of genius, so alive and then fading into black winter. 10,000 miles away the delta blues inspiration can only be faintly heard in this original collection of musical and mystical poems.

CONSEQUENCE OF CHAOS - AL DI MEOLA

The master retuns to fast fusion but also packing those magic toys from journey's around the world. Mellow and uplifting now the scary space cadet young gun has transformed into the guide to the brightest stars and those moments of perfection and enlightenment. What a trip for the open minded listener ..... meaning, passion and truth lie within faithful traveller.