Category: Reviews of New Releases
Album review of Malcolm MacFarlane’s new digital album, ‘Alone’.
“In a world of competing noise and complexities, music engendering tranquillity, perhaps even mindfulness, is to be welcomed.” East Lothian-based…
Album review: SoSaLa “1983 – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival and Rathausplatz Bern”
Having the belief that it is as important to look outside Scotland, as to look within, the following album caught…
Album review: Paul Harrison “Encontros – The music of Egberto Gismonti”
Album review: Paul Harrison “Encontros – The music of Egberto Gismonti” Review by Fiona Mactaggart Encontros “…has humour,…
Album review: Germana Stella La Sorsa and Tom Ollendorff – After Hours
This is one of the loveliest studio albums I’ve heard this month and is a great antidote for the incessant…
Review of Marianne McGregor’s latest beautiful album, in Jazz in Europe, for Women in Jazz Media.
https://jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl/2025/07/cd-review-marianne-mcgregor-make-believe/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqSO2RdR9V8
Tom Lyne with Dave Milligan: Well Mixed Blue
Scotland has long been a home for greatly talented musician-composers, although sometimes this may not always have been widely remarked…
Gabriel Latchin Trio’s ‘The Man I Love.’ Released 9th May 2025, on Alys Jazz.
On the back of his four previous successful albums, has frequent Scotland visitor Gabriel Latchin created another winner? Released earlier…
The fabulous Rose Room’s latest, beautiful album, ‘It’s Been A Long. Long Time,’ reviewed in Jazz In Europe.
https://jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl/2025/05/cd-review-rose-room-its-been-a-long-long-time/
SoSaLa’s latest album, 1994, was released recently. It’s really great No Wave music from this NY-based music activist. Here’s my brief album review.
SoSaLa – ‘1994 – Live at CBGB’ Album review. At the present moment in time we are seeing increasing numbers…
This morning in UK Jazz News, a review of Simon Thacker and Justyna Jablonska’s dazzling new album.
https://ukjazznews.com/simon-thacker-and-justyna-jablonska-songs-of-the-roma/