What is a review? They may purport to be many things, but at the base all it is, is one person’s (hopefully) objective and informed opinion. We all like different things, and while one person may love Marmite others may well feel it is the most disgusting spread put...

UK artist John Irvine has been releasing albums at a steady pace for the last decade and a bit, with the first album appearing back in 2011 and with a total of 8 studio albums to his name as of 2025. The most recent of these appeared now at the start of 2025. The...

Winterfylleth are back with their eighth album, the first in four years, following on from ‘The Reckoning Dawn’ since when there has been a line-up change with the departure of Dan Capp, who has been replaced by Russell Dobson (lead guitar, vocals), who is also a...

I first became a fan of Atreyu two decades back with the release of ‘The Curse’, since when they have broken up, reformed, and even lost their original lead singer but Brandon Saller (vocals), Dan Jacobs (guitar), Travis Miguel (guitar), and Porter McKnight (bass)...

This is the first time I have come across Joy Shannon, who has released multiple albums with her band The Beauty Marks, and to say I am simply blown away is something of a huge understatement. Shannon brings together multiple different styles of folk, from Celtic and...

When California-based singer Jack Wood discovered Australian jazz singer Nichaud Fitzgibbon he decided to show her talents to his own audience, and she sang on two songs on his last album. This time around we find them releasing an album together, but all is not quite...

Gino Amato’s is a classically trained pianist who has worked with the Puerto Rican salsa band La Sonora Ponceña and pianist Papo Lucca, studied with Don Sebesky and Jim McNeely, formed the Steely Dan tribute group Royal Scam, and has written for big bands and Latin...

What we have here is a remastered version of an album which was released in 2007, but I didn’t hear it at the time and I am very pleased indeed to have it now as this is a delight for anyone interested in hugely complex and complicated jazz with wonderful arrangements...

Ferony might be a name new to many of you, but you may recognise his face as he has been in quite a few movies, normally uncredited, such as ‘Back To School’, ‘GoodFellas’, ‘Spiderman II’, and The Irishman’. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1985, he went to acting...

Yuka Mito is a Japanese jazz singer, and here she has been joined by a Japanese trio to work their way through seven classic numbers with a total playing time of 30 minutes. There is no doubt the band can play, with Hiroki Morioka having a wonderful touch on piano,...