Product: Instrument review: pBugle

July 13, 2020
The latest addition to the Warwick Music Group stable of plastic instruments seems something of an anomaly, but it could also kick start another education revolution...

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Product: CD review: Music for Isolation

July 12, 2020
Rie Takeuchi & Gideon Juckes
Digital Album
Gururiyoza Records

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Product: LP review: Festival of Championship Brass

July 7, 2020
Featuring: Black Dyke; Brighouse & Rastrick; City of Coventry; Cory; CWS (Manchester); Fairey; Grimethorpe; GUS (Footwear); Hampshire Youth; Ransome, Hoffman & Pollard; Rochdale; Stanshawe; Tredegar Junior; Yorkshire Imperial
Decca Recordings: STBC 7-9

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Product: Instrument review: Besson BE120 Prodige cornet

June 29, 2020
The student model market place is highly competitive, so has Besson struck the right balance on cost and quality with its revamped and upgraded 'Prodige' cornet?

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Book review: James Ord Hume

June 28, 2020
The March King
Dr Timothy Thirst
Price: £15.95 (paperback) (UK)

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Product: LP review: Golden Melodies

June 27, 2020
The National Brass Band
Conductor: Geoffrey Brand
Soloists: Jim Shepherd, Gordon Higginbottom, Derek Southcott, Ray Farr, Brian Evans
K-tel Records: ONE 1075

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Product: CD review: Nigel Clarke — Mysteries of the Horizon

June 20, 2020
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conductors: Nigel Clarke, David Thornton, Sandy Smith
Soloist: Harmen Vanhoorne
Naxos Recordings: 8.574097

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Product: Product review: Denis Wick mute corks

June 14, 2020
Mute corks for cornet to tuba
Denis Wick London
Prices: Vary

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Product: LP review: Carnaval

June 11, 2020
Wynton Marsalis
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Conductor: Donald Hunsberger
CBS Records Masterworks
CB 331

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Book: Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and local Music Making

June 10, 2020
Edited by: Suzel Ana Reily and Katherine Brucher
SOAS Musicology Series
Ashgate Publishing

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Product: LP review: Alex Owen 60th Anniversary

May 27, 2020
Besses o' th' Barn Band
Conductors: Alec Evans & Roy Newsome
Soloists: Peter Read, Graham McEvoy, Andrew Snelson
Chandos Recordings: BBR 1009

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Product: Product review: BG Trumpet Combo Pack

May 26, 2020
Trumpet Lead Pipe, Valve Casing and Mouthpiece Swabs
Price: £57.99

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Product: CD review: The Jungle Book

May 21, 2020
Cory Band
Conductor: Philip Harper
Narration: Frank Renton
World of Sound Recordings: CD WOS156

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Product: CD review: Heritage

May 15, 2020
Celebrating 150 Years of the Milnrow Band
Conductor: Dennis Hadfield
Featuring: David Morris
KMJ Recordings: MB001

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Product: LP review: Grimethorpe Special

May 14, 2020
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conductor: Elgar Howarth
Featuring: Besses o' th' Barn Band
Narrator: Valerie Solti
Decca Records: HEAD14

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Product: CD review: Preludes, Rags and Cakewalks

May 11, 2020
Debussy, Joplin and the influence of ragtime on French music
The Symphonic Brass of London
Conductor: Eric Crees
MPR Recordings: MPR005

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Product: Product review: Denis Wick 4B cornet mouthpiece

May 10, 2020
The workhorse of the Denis Wick cornet range remains a gold plated thoroughbred...

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Product: LP review: Brass in Perspective

May 8, 2020
The GUS (Footwear) Band
Conductor: Stanley Boddington
Soloist: David Jones
EMI Recordings: TWO 195

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Product: CD review: Sapphire

April 26, 2020
Peter Steiner
Featuring: Constance Hochwartner (piano)
Berlin Classics
CD 0301298BC

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Product: LP review: Life Divine

April 25, 2020
Black Dyke Mills Band (John Foster & Son PLC)
Conductors: Major Peter Parkes and Derek Broadbent
Chandos Digital: BBRD 1030

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