For a good 10 years saxophonist / flautist Heinrich von Kalnein, otherwise also as one of both Masterminds the internationally famed jazz JBBG leads Bigband Graz on the way, his trio KAHIBA. Beside the Swiss special drummer and live electronics engineer Gregor Hilbe the Austrian accordion virtuoso and pianist Christian Bakanic played during many years. In 2016 the tape formed up anew. Now the young Turkish pianist fills the place of Bakanic in l of bilges more than and the tape sounds so fresh here and immediate as if all thinking has disappeared at this moment of the live admission. No calculation, but simply let go … freshly, excitingly and adventuresome. So very closely we have not heard this tape yet on sound carrier.

The album was recorded at the three-time Prog Award winners's shows at London's Cadogan Hall last year and will be released as a triple vinyl box set and as a two CD digipack. Download and streaming versions will also be available. The album includes the best performance of each song played at the band's sold out Cadogan Hall, London shows which took place in the autumn last year. Big Big Train have revisited the sound world of early Genesis and Yes and have managed to create music with great emotional clout. They make beautiful, pastoral quintessentially English music: their name is Big Big Train. Beautifully understated yet consistently enthralling, Big Big Train wield pathos and poignancy with elegance and relish, amidst a musical backdrop that is as vivid as it is finessed.

This is one of the last sessions by Walter Bishop, Jr. prior to his death in 1998. The veteran bop pianist is in great form on this trio date with bassist Paul Brown and drummer Al Harewood, which mixes standards, bop classics, and several originals. Bishop's jaunty approach to 'Yardbird Suite' is a gem, while his lush treatment of 'The Masquerade Is Over' finds the rhythm section staying softly in the background. He revisits 'Speak Low,' a centerpiece of his first date as a leader some 32 years earlier, playfully detouring into Billy Strayhorn's 'Rain Check' and leaving room for a few drum breaks by Harewood. His 'Valley Land' is an intense mid-tempo samba, while 'Keiko's Samba' kicks into a higher gear. This Japanese SACD on the Venus label is worth seeking.