Andy Hazell I started buying music in the mid-to-late 80s, a period when music buying habits were shifting, enabled by emerging technology. Vinyl had given ground to cassette with the digital alchemy ...

Brian Goucher I was born in 1955, a time when there was no internet, no mobile phones, black and white television and ...

Mike Gavin I suppose they all do. If you’re deep into the music, the process of finding, holding, buying, carrying home, ...

Mike Gates There are moments in life when a door opens and you step into a world you never knew existed. For me, that moment ...

Damian Wilkes When considering writing this piece I was initially unsure of what record to pick, but eventually I thought it ...

Garry Corbett On March 30th 1970 ‘Bitches Brew’ was released. It was my true gateway into jazz and began a trip that I’m ...

Molly Gallegos In 2009, I was fresh out of college, trying to navigate adulthood and figure out who the heck I was. Back then ...

Alan Musson The Album That Changed My Life indicates a degree of doubt about the accuracy of that claim. I doubt whether any ...

Kevin Ward So many albums made a big impression on me but I’ll go for a slightly controversial one and try to convince all you doubters that this is indeed an album of great import! I first came ...

Jason Byrne It was 1983 or ’84. I was 16 or 17 years old and studying drums with a somewhat famous teacher/guru in NYC by the ...

Antonio Martino Music has been the only constant in my life. All the rest has changed, cities, works, friends, lovers, but my ...

Brian Homer In 1966, I got my first record player; I was 21. I had already visited the Diskery, which was then in Hurst ...