Soumik Datta and Bernhard Schimpelsberger: Circle of Sound

Bernhard Schimpelsberger | Manu Delago | Pirashanna Thevarajah | Simon Nader | Soumik Datta | Talvin Singh

At this album's heart are British-based sarodist Soumik Datta and the British-based Austrian percussionist Bernhard Schimpelsberger. Datta is a student...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: February/2013

David Larsen: The Mulligan Chronicles

Bill Mays | Dave Glenn | David Larsen | Dean Johnson | Ron Vincent

Larsen, a well-qualified US baritone saxophonist and educator, has the music of Gerry Mulligan in his sights for his upcoming...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2021

Curtis Fuller: Four Classic Albums

The collective personnel above mask a series of Fuller’s ‘name’ albums made, respectively and in sequence, for Blue Note (The...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2020

Tore Brunborg & Steinar Raknes: Backcountry

Steinar Raknes | Tore Brunborg

It’s one thing being recognised from the inside as one of Norway’s top jazz musicians, quite another garnering a similar...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2018

Sons of Kemet: Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do

Seb Rochford | Shabaka Hutchings | Theon Cross | Tom Skinner

Unlike bands at the youth end of the mainstream music culture, young jazz ensembles tend to be looked upon as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2015

Jeremy Pelt: The Artist

Alex Wintz | Allan Mednard | Chien Chien Lu | Frank Locrasto | Jeremy Pelt | Victor Gould | Vincente Archer

Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt's blendings of tight Jazz Messengers-like themes with the free flow of Miles Davis's second great quintet are...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2019

Nigel Hitchcock: Hitchgnosis

‘Hitchgnosis’ Orchestra | Chris Dagley | Laurence Cottle | Marat Bisengaliev | Miles Bould | Nigel Hitchcock

Nigel Hitchcock has been a sought-after saxophonist within the pop-rock stratosphere since the 1990s, but has also held his own...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Verneri Pohjola: Pekka

Antti Lötjönen | Mika Kallio | Teemu Viinikainen | Tuomo Prättälä | Verneri Pohjola

There was a time during the 1970s and 1980s in Finland when the electric bassist Pekka Pohjola was being talked...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

John Escreet: Sabotage and Celebration

Adam Rogers | Annette Homann | Chris Potter | David Binney | Fung Chern Hwei | Garth Stevenson | Genevieve Artadi | Hannah Levinson | Jim Black | John Escreet

For John Escreet’s fifth recording since the impressively ambitious debut Consequences in 2008, the New York jazz scene’s hottest English...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Melt Yourself Down

Kushal Gaya | Leafcutter John | Pete Wareham | Ruth Goller | Satin Singh | Shabaka Hutchings | Tom Skinner

The label ‘punk jazz’ was being bandied around when Pete Wareham was leading the band Acoustic Ladyland, a trailblazer of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013