Album review | The Healer (Anton Delecca Quartet) by John Hardaker

It is a jazz format that is one of the most satisfying of all within the canon, and they do it so well. So well, in fact, that they deserve your ears. They already have mine.

Nat Bartsch Trio | Photo by Samara Clifford

Nat Bartsch Trio | John Clare reviews two releases

Before we run out of space it must be emphasised that this is unusually beautiful music. But even in the most euphoric music you can, in a certain mood, feel a touch of melancholy. Surely it is just the realisation that no golden age lasts forever, nor any life…

A Dove, A Lion, A Coast, A Pirate

Album Release: A Dove, A Lion, A Coast, A Pirate (Luke Howard Trio)

‘The tunes were inspired by world events, infatuation and quiet places,’ says Luke, ‘but they quickly take on a life and character of their own, beyond their starting point.’

Creature feature – Tamara Murphy on the Young Elder

“I guess I consider myself an ‘intuitive’ composer in that everything I’ve written so far seems to have been written in a slightly different way. I don’t have one method – one approach of sitting down and writing in a particular way.”