Category: Extended Discography

Mastering “German saxist Ingrid Laubrock, a creative presence on the London contemporary jazz scene since the 1990s, has moved to New York, and the impact on her work is palpable. This group, featuring the innovative guitarist Mary Halvorson (an explorer of experimental rock as well as free jazz), is more inviting than Laubrock’s earlier Sleepthief trio, which also featured Tim Berne […]

Recording Mixing & Mastering Recorded live in Hamburg

Mastering “I must have listen to it at least five times before reviewing and each time I was just blown away.” Off the Record – Thomas Neil

Mastering “All musical genre can be blended with one another. As I get older and more persnickety, I am coming to believe that just because two musical traditions can be blended that they necessarily should be. I have listened to countless experiments with cross-pollination that best have been left alone. Gratefully, this is not true […]

with Shankar Mahadevan-Zakir Hussein Mastering “Is That So? is a lovely yet radical and provocative departure for McLaughlin and one he freely acknowledges longtime fans may not enjoy. It’s easy to see his point, but an honest approach to this quietly astonishing music should result in delight for most open-minded listeners.” All Music – Thom Jurek

Recording & Mixing “Once Upon a Tide is a beautiful and intriguing album, full of superb musicianship and thrilling improvisation. It has many moods, like the tide it describes”. London Jazz News – Alison Bentley

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Mastering “If it is possible to smile while playing the cornet, one senses Jurd would have been doing so, broadly, while recording The Big Friendly Album. In that regard, she is rather like another unassuming innovator, the great pianist and composer Horace Silver, who in the 1960s challenged the growing orthodoxy that jazz was Serious Business and […]

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Mixing & Mastering “You’ve Changed” sees Harrison’s regular trio of Scottish wunderkind Aidan O’Donnell (bass) and Stephen Keogh (drums) in the company of Irish guitarist Louis Stewart. The idea for this generation spanning collaboration came from Stewart’s fellow countryman Keogh who had played with Stewart in the past.Stewart is something of a veteran; born in […]