Jazz Worms - SquirminMore than 30 years after the release of their acclaimed debut album, Denver based quintet the Jazz Worms make their belated return with Squirmin'. Well worth waiting for, the thrilling new session reconvenes all five original WORMS pianist Andy Weyl, saxophonist Keith Oxman, drummer Paul Romaine, cornetist Ron Miles and bassist Mark Simon on an invigorating set of all new material that picks up where the band left off three decades earlier.

Idle retirement didn't suit her-at least as far as old colleague DI Kieran Hussey (Bernard Curry) was concerned-and he was always ready to coax her back for consult whenever a case proved too baffling

Various Artists - Canadian Music for Chamber Orchestra / Various

' in a rare combination of 5-row freebass accordion

One feature of this year was that the American Federation of Musicians' recording ban had come into force

"Travellin' Mood" and many more

20 and Air Varie

Rahel Klein works as a freelance musician in various projects

this thrilling British police drama has earned universal praise for it's "nail-biting action

featuring covers of ten classic songs with guest vocals by the likes of Margo Price

One composer

for which he was most highly esteemed in his own time

QUEEN OF DIAMONDS (1991) and THE BLOODY CHILD (1996) - that Menkes produced