Claudio Fasoli N.Y. 4et: Selfie

This veteran Milan-based tenor-soprano saxophonist, now 79 years old, still makes the end-of-year lists. Here, his ace New York team...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: If you Listen Carefully the Music is Yours

Drummer Gard Nilssen fires up this supercharged 16-piece Nordic big band whose widescreen sonic is inspired by Art Ensemble of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Jason Roebke Octet: High Red Center

Alongside a Chicago crew of superb improvisers including Jason Adasiewicz, and Jeb Bishop, bassist Roebke channels the ghost of Sun...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Chet Baker Quartet: Vol. 1

Chet Baker | Dick Twardzik | Gerard Gustin | Jimmy Bond | Nils-Bertil Dahlander | Peter Littman

When, in September 1955, the Chet Baker Quartet arrived in Paris, they were filled with youthful optimism for they were...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2016

Wolfgang Haffner: Kind of Tango

Bill Evans | Christopher Dell | Guest Alma Naidu | Lars Danielsson | Lars Nilsson | Sebastian Studnitzky | Simon Oslender | Ulf Wakenius | Vincent Peirani | Wolfgang Haffner

First there was Kind of Cool (2015). Next there was Kind of Spain (2017). And now, to complete the trilogy,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2020

Fonnesbæk & Kauflin: Standards

Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | Pat Senatore

Justin Kauflin, the blind pianist whose close relationship with Clark Terry just before he died was made into the documentary...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Billy Drummond & Freedom of Ideas: Valse Sinestre

Billy Drummond | Dayna Stephens | Dezron Douglas | Micah Thomas

Billy Drummond last released an album under his own name on the Criss Cross label in 1996 – Dubai featured...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2022

Ballister: Worse for the Wear

Run for the hills: here comes Ballister featuring the established Chicagoan saxophonist Dave Rempis, cellist Fred Lonberg Holm and Norwegian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim Orchestra: African Space Program

Carlos Ward | Cecil Bridgewater | Cecil McBee | Charles Sullivan | Dollar Brand | Enrico Rava | Hamiet Bluiett | John Stubblefield | Kiane Zawadi | Roland Alexander

Released in a series of Enja Jazz Classics, this is one of only two big-band albums directed by the then...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2014

Louis Hayes/Junior Cook Quintet: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall/Hamburg 1976

Junior Cook | Louis Hayes | Ronnie Matthews | Stafford James | Woody Shaw

Two months after their appearance at Hamburg’s Onkel Pö’s nightclub, this same line-up taped Ichi Ban for the Dutch Timeless...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2019