Searing, ultra-dread Chicago blues. Total murder like Double Trouble, when Otis had barely turned twenty, with Ike Turner on second guitar. Genius.

Firing interpretations of Curtis, full of funk and soulfulness, grooving jazz fire, and good old-fashioned revolutionary politics, by this octet with Hamid Drake, Dave Burrell, Leena Conquest, Amiri Baraka.
Dynamite twenty-minute version of (Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Below, We’re All Going To Go.

Exclusively tailored in places, planes, hotel rooms and at home — fifteen bespoke songs and instrumentals from the Hot Chip.

This debut solo recording of the Hot Chip is a scrapbook of fifteen songs and instrumentals, made in planes, hotel rooms and at home, with bags of charm and inventiveness.

Nice gospelized harmonies… with a touch of The Lecture to the flip-side sufferers.

Tremendous, wild and highly charged music from Crete, completely compelling across a range of moods and styles, with brilliant lyra playing by the leader.

A liturgy and feast headquartered in the mountains of Antalya, with semah sacred dancing and sung poetry accompanied on the saz lute. Six instrumentalists, two vocal lineups here: from 2004 and 2011.

‘Jesus fucking shit! These jamz claw so hard at the tatties below methinks the Lord misnamed them, having intended to say trembling BALLS’ (Will Oldham). ‘My kind of band… Highly recommended’ (Joe Boyd).

‘brilliant… concise, deeply romantic, totally original ****’ (Mojo); ‘freewheeling and delightfully quirky ****’ (The Guardian); ‘CD Of The Week… terrific’ (The Observer); ‘like nobody ****’ (Sunday Times).

A terrific, bountiful seasonal single — with Bonnie Prince Billy in his cups on one side, and Mike Heron from The Incredible String Band on the other, with a Boxing Day ghost story. Beautifully sleeved, limited.

‘New levels of excellence… a poetic incantation of British identity far brighter than Michael Gove’s proposed GCSE history syllabus *****’ (The Sunday Times). ‘Magnificent ****’ (The Guardian).

The late seventies Hat Hut LP — Ware’s debut as leader, when he was with Cecil Taylor — unavailable for decades; plus a full disc of material from the same sessions, never released before.
A protege of Sonny Rollins, with Ayleresque fervour; very warmly recommended.

The 1962 Columbia set with Clark Terry, trumpet, Tommy Flanagan, piano, Major Holley, bass, and Dave Bailey, drums.

A bunch of Broadway standards, Shubert Alley is Torme’s masterpiece, a wonderful jazz vocal album — with Marty Paich and band (featuring Art Pepper) going after the sound of Miles’ The Birth Of The Cool.