Tristan Banks: View From Above

Davide Mantovani | John Crawford | Paul Booth | Tristan Banks

For three decades, the British session drummer Tristan Banks has been a first-call sideman for a ‘glitterati’ across jazz, pop...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2023

King Crimson: Starless And Bible Black

Bill Bruford | David Cross | John Wetton | Robert Fripp

The 40th birthday party continues, if now totally out of whack with real time, but then, hey, this is the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2011

Dayna Stephens Trio: Liberty

Sax-bass-drums trios might be getting more commonplace these days, but the ninth album from acclaimed New York-based tenor saxophonist-composer Dayna...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Julius Rodriguez: Let Sound Tell All

Giveton Gelin | Julius Rodriguez

Improvising musicians who see themselves as much as producers as players have been with us for some time, and Julius...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2022

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Spirits Up Above: The Atlantic Years 1965-76

Al Hibbler | Charles Crosby | Grady Tate | Hank Jones | Hilton Ruiz | Jaki Byard | Jimmy Hopps | Joe Habao Texidor | Lonnie Liston Smith | Major Holley

Compiled by our esteemed editor Jon Newey and Warner Music's Florence Halfon (she of the Leopard Lounge series), this is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2012

Count Basie: Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings

Two dozen numbers by the second great vocal partnership of Basie's career (Rushing being the first), this has all the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

John Escreet: Sound, Space and Structures

Evan Parker | John Escreet | John Hébert | Tyshawn Sorey

The young New York-based expat pianist-composer John Escreet and pioneering saxophonist Evan Parker might seem strange bedfellows at first. But...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Mirabassi Di Modugno Balducci: Amori Sospesi

A lyrical purely acoustic chamber trio, featuring the clarinettist Gabriele Mirabassi, with mostly original music which resonates with the sleepy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House: Roulette of the Cradle

Ingrid Laubrock | John Hébert | Kris Davis | Mary Halvorson | Oscar Noriega | Tom Rainey

The German-born saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's 2010 Anti-House album was also her first recording as leader since setting up new roots...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2015

Dizzy Gillespie: North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts

Brown Hill | Coen Molenaar | Eric Vloeimans | Jan Akkerman | Marijn van den Berg | Shockwave | Wilbrand Meischke

Three incomplete sets from various North Sea appearances find Dizzy fronting two different big bands, one of them Dutch, in...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2014