Blues and Soul Music Magazine

Miles Davis: Merci Miles! Live At Vienne (Rhino Records)

This is a crystallisation of five decades of musical evolution, a snapshot of futuristic Miles Davis, thankfully caught in time and is a bit special, to say the least...

Miguel Muziq: An Angel’s Healing (Viva La Música Records)

Miguel Muziq has combined great melodies with colourful chordal progressions and seems to have established a new lane for this enterprising and highly gifted guitarist. It's powerful and rich...

João Donato JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)

João Donato is one of the greatest Brazilian composers, he's simply unique, a man who likes to keep it melodically simple and harmonically interesting...

Carlos Niño & Friends: More Energy Fields, Current (International Anthem)

This is a challenging body of work with meditative qualities imbued and plenty of rain stick percussion, marimba, laconic synths and some cracking sax supplied by UK wizz Shabaka Hutchings...

Menagerie: Many Worlds (Freestyle)

Lance Ferguson returns on a more heavy jazz tip with his 9 piece band Menagerie, whose strong themes, elevating vocal harmonies and stellar ensemble playing really cut the mustard on this release...

Bahama Soul Club : Bohemia After Dawn

Bahama Soul Club’s 5th album “Bohemia After Dawn” proves once more this outfit awash with Jazztastic latino grooves and all round musical spiciness...

Tamil Rogeon: House No Wheels (Soul Bank Music)

New label Soul Bank Music, set up by former Freestyle frontman, Greg Boraman, gets off to a flyer with this striking and bewitching project. It's a multi-layered and beguiling slice of upbeat spiritual jazz...

John Coltrane “Giant Steps” 60th Anniversary (Rhino)

John Coltrane's seminal piece of work gets re-released on its 60th anniversary with a whole load of extras that should send jazz lovers into ecstatic realms of excitement...

Gregory Porter: All Rise (Decca Records/Blue Note)

Gregory Porter triumphantly returns with an extraordinary album brimming with soul, love and emotion. His sixth album is quality and quantity, featuring many killers and no fillers...

Synthonic: Do You Remember?

This is an impressive body of work for Synthonic the brain child of multi instrumentalist, Kieron Garrett who has written and produced this flashy,aural tome.