Month: April 2023

Janette Mason – D’Ranged (Fireball Records)

Janette Mason – D’Ranged (Fireball Records)

Producing + Recording Mixing & Mastering Janette Mason, the UK-based session pianist and composer, doesn’t play as much jazz as the cognoscenti might like – and this almost entirely vocal set of classic R&B and soul hits keeps her fluent postbop chops even more modestly disguised. But for all her familiarity with the commercial mainstream, Mason can’t do anything […]

Yurodny – Haivka (Diatribe Records)  

Yurodny – Haivka (Diatribe Records)  

Mastering “Irish outliers Yurodny, led by saxophonist Nick Roth, may be fishing in the turbulent waters of the avant-garde, blending jazz, free improv, Balkan grooves and 20th-century classical harmony, but their nets also reach down to the slower, deeper undercurrents of traditional music. But if that all sounds just too esoteric by half, the results are […]

Vasilis Xenopoulos – Dexterity (AVJ Productions)

Vasilis Xenopoulos – Dexterity (AVJ Productions)

Mixing & Mastering “All in all this is top notch hard bop played with authority, authenticity and conviction. The desire to communicate with the audience is clearly in the mind of all concerned, and on three numbers Xenopoulos is joined for frontline duties by the equally tasteful and sure footed Quentin Collins on trumpet, and […]

Streetworks – Unfurled (Big Shed Music)   

Streetworks – Unfurled (Big Shed Music)   

Mastering “Karen Street’s latest creative project “Unfurled” is performed by her drumless quartet of accordion (played by Karen herself), saxophone by the honey-toned Andy Tweed, guitar by ever-creative Mike Outram and powerhouse bassist Will Harris”this attractively unusual CD is really about the band sound, and a lovely one it is. The accordion, almost in spite […]