Tom Herbert

Perfect Strangers

By Lophae

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Fallout; Dedication To David T; Vicentina; Perfect Strangers.

Imagine More

By Greg Sanders

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Little House; Another You; What We Were Waiting For; Imagine More; Ball In A Street; To Friends; Fry Before You Buy; Two Of The Three That Aren't Me

The Happy Worrier

By Kasper Rietkerk

Label: Kasper Rietkerk Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Lost in Glow; The Ceiling; Missing out on the Important Stuff; Blueberry Pancake; Mayfly; Nimbus; Scream for Silence; I Don't Remember Asking Your Opinion; Tea Lights.

Kasper Rietkerk: The Happy Worrier

by Neil Duggan
July 8, 2025

The Happy Worrier is the second album from saxophonist Kasper Rietkerk. Originally from the Netherlands, Rietkerk has become a firmly established figure in the UK jazz scene since completing his master's degree at London's Royal Academy of Music in 2023. The album's creation was made possible through Rietkerk's receipt of the inaugural Brubeck Living ...

Polar Bear: Dim Lit

by Andrew Hunter
July 2, 2025

When Polar Bear released Dim Lit in 2004, shortly after being nominated for Best Band at the BBC Jazz Awards, it was clear that the British quartet led by drummer Sebastian Rochford were going to make some waves. Mark Lockheart (sax) was already in the middle of a successful career, having played with Django Bates and ...

Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

By Shabaka Hutchings

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: End Of Innocence; As The Planet And The Stars Collapse; Managing My Breath What Fear Had Become; The Wounded Need To Be Replenished; Body To Inhabit; I��ll Do Whatever You Want; Living; Breathing; Kiss Me Before I Forget; Song Of The Motherland.

Voices Of Bishara Live

By Tom Skinner

Label: International Anthem Recording Company
Released: 2024
Track listing: Bishara; Red 2; The Journey; The Day After Tomorrow; Oasis; Camille; Happiness.

Tom Skinner: Voices Of Bishara Live

by Chris May
May 16, 2024

Best known in the U.S.A. as a member of the late Sons Of Kemet and now The Smile with Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, Tom Skinner has been a vital presence on London's underground jazz scene for twenty years. Yet remarkably, only in 2022 did the drummer and composer release his first album under his ...

Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

by Chris May
April 24, 2024

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ... Since signing with with Impulse! in 2018, Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary work on tenor saxophone with Sons Of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and Shabaka & The Ancestors. Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace marks the start of a gentler, more instrospective phase in his music ...