Month: April 2023

Tina May – My Kinda Love (Hepp Jazz)   

Tina May – My Kinda Love (Hepp Jazz)   

Mastering “Real jazz singers flourish in the company of good jazz musicians, and Tina May is a real jazz singer. She can sing a straight melody, such as I’m Through with Love, and make it open like a flower. She can swing effortlessly and invent a wordless scat chorus as tricky as anything her fellow […]

Tim Garland – One (Edition Records)   

Tim Garland – One (Edition Records)   

Mastering *Album of the year 2016* –  Jazzwise Critics poll “The prospect of a new Tim Garland album always raises the pulse… and unquestionably,ONE is no exception Well, here it is, in all its splendid jazz-rock magnificence, completing the quartet with Asaf Sirkis (from Lighthouse Trio days) on drums and percussion, plus guests Hossam Ramzy (percussion) and Dionne Bennett […]

Kathryn Tickell & Friends – Water Of Tyne (Magnetic North East)

Kathryn Tickell & Friends – Water Of Tyne (Magnetic North East)

Mixing & Mastering Lovingly curated by Kathryn Tickell for Magnetic North East and featuring Kathryn Tickell, Bob Fox, The Unthanks, Superfolkus, Hannah Rickard and more (including Kathryn’s dad Mike!) this collection places traditional folk songs alongside new material. Thirteen tracks based around the River Tyne, ranging from the classic ‘The Water Of Tyne’ to the poignant innocence […]

Steve Lodder – Tied up with strings (Sospiro Records) 

Steve Lodder – Tied up with strings (Sospiro Records) 

Mastering British pianist Steve Lodder is one of those first-call sidemen for anybody attempting something off the beaten track – he’s a member of the current Bowie-interpreting Dylan Howe Band, and was a regular in the late George Russell’s UK orchestras. This solo album begins with a 14th-century piece from the earliest surviving keyboard-score manuscript, the […]