This is the fourth album as a band leader by New York-based trumpeter Chris Pasin, and is the second I have heard from him. The rather unusual title is to let the jazz fan understand that this is an album saluting NEA Jazz Master and Pulitzer Prize winner Ornette...

The hard bop alto saxophonist Christopher Hollyday is back with his first album as band leader in more than quarter of a century. This may be a short album, with just six standards, and a total length of just 33 minutes, but this is a master class in jazz. Here he has...

Max and the gang are back with their eleventh album, the third to feature his eldest son Zyon on drums (the line-up is completed by Marc Rizzo on lead guitar, flamenco guitar and bassist Mike Leon, plus loads of guests). The last Sepultura album was their best for...

James Alan Hull must surely be one of the most important singer-songwriters ever to come out of England, and forever will be associated with the mighty Lindisfarne. In the Eighties their Christmas tours were essential, with the mighty Hammy O transformed into a...

One of my favourite Harry Chapin albums is ‘The Last Protest Singer’, an album often overlooked within his canon as it was released some seven years after his death. It was the album he had been working on when he died in a car crash, and it was completed...

The album starts with an introduction which would not sound of place on a Clive Nolan project, as right from the off we realise this is going to be a concept album, with loads of atmosphere and menace. True, there are times throughout when the additional voices are...

Luxembourg based project ROME is the creative vehicle of composer and musician Jérôme Reuter, and has been active for well over a decade at this point. "Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro" is the thirteenth album to be issued under the Rome moniker, and was released through...

It has been a while since I have reviewed a book and must confess that in more than 30 years of writing this is the first time I have ever been asked to review a comic book: but I am so glad this has been sent to me. Finnish artist JP Ahonen has taken a loving nuclear...

Imagine if you will Wolfsbane and Accept coming together to produce NWOBHM flavoured power metal with a very heavy bottom end, and then you may get close to what this Italian band released in 2016. Actually, this is still the most recent new release by the band who...

Originally released in 2008, October last year saw Aural Music celebrating the 10th anniversary of the album by reissuing with new artwork by Umberto Stagni, new remastered tracks plus a second bonus CD containing the previously unreleased ‘Live in Russi 2010’. This...