Martin Kershaw: The Howness

A steely, yet at times, sweetly lyrical Scottish-based contemporary avant bop saxophonist in New York with a quartet featuring longtime...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Orchestre National De Jazz: Europa Berlin

Directed by the broadly-idiomatic French Orchestre National's current leader/guitarist Olivier Benoit, this is the second in the Europa ‘city portraits’...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015

Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Planktonic Finales

Cory Smythe | Ingrid Laubrock | Stephan Crump

Formerly London-based, Ingrid Laubrock has subsequently established a name for herself over her eight years on Brooklyn's leftfield jazz and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Letizia Gambi: Introducing Letizia Gambi

Lenny White | Letizia Gambi | Patrice Rushen | Ron Carter

It's a truly remarkable story: after a 2009 gig in Milan with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, Lenny White is...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2013

Howard Riley: Constant Change 1976-2016

Howard Riley

Material from the second disc here appeared on a small-run cassette issue back in 1992, but otherwise this 5CD sequel...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2017

Harris Elsenstadt: Canada Day Octet

This Toronto-born drummer/composer's intriguing experimental octet has a background in both early jazz and freer collective ensemble playing, and in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Micic/Abercrombie/Bernstein/Lund: Inspired

It's intriguing to compare the various aesthetics of this guitar summit of musicians from America, Norway and Serbia performing a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Artistry Jazz Group: Too Darn Hot

A Swedish straightahead tribute to Cole Porter made up of 15 songs (a handful of them sung by Vivian Buczek)...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011

Mark Wingfield/Rene Von Grunig: Cinema Obscura

A Swiss-English collaboration, one half of which is guitarist Mark Wingfield, who with UK sax original Iain Ballamy brew up...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Fred Lonberg-Holm: Bow Hard At The Frog

Fred Lonberg-Holm | Various Amphibians

First the esteemed double-bassist Barry Guy gets all froggy for Trost and now this? Just what is it with these...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: August/2018