From today's London TIMES: Jazz Albums TERRY CALLIER Lifetime (Talkin' Loud 543 054-2) HARD on the heels of Callier's exemplary comeback album TimePeace, released last year, comes another fine collection of mainly new songs from the softly spoken Chicagoan singer-songwriter.

These are the tunes with which he's been tantalising concertgoers at recent gigs. As before, bright, chorused guitar lines mesh with mellow basslines and balanced drumming to provide platforms for Callier's lyrics: laments for lost loves, roars of protest at social injustice, pledges of religious devotion, shared out among touching little lovesongs (including an unmissable duet, Love Can Do, with folkie Beth Orton). There's even a magnificent reworking of his old anthem I Don't Want To See Myself Without You. TC: top cat.