Geoff Warren: Flute Fables

English world-jazz musician Geoff Warren, a musician who started his career with Graham Collier, goes from freewheeling improv solo to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011

Tony Oxley/Alan Davie: Elaboration of Particulars

Alan Davie | Tony Oxley

As his sleevenotes make clear, the late Scottish painter-musician Alan Davie was one of percussion legend Oxley’s most favoured collaborators....

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2021

John Abercrombie Quartet: Within a Song

Drew Gress | Joe Lovano | Joey Baron | John Abercrombie

“[ECM boss] Manfred Eicher and I had been talking for a while about doing an album that might pay homage...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2012

Bud Powell: The Genius of Bud Powell

Art Taylor | Bud Powell | Buddy Rich | Curley Russell | George Duvivier | Max Roach | Osie Johnson | Ray Brown

Living up to Jazz Images' reputation for beautifully produced and illustrated reissues, this set rather oddly combines lovely atmospheric photographs...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2019

Unisono Quartet/Taivaantemppeli: Live In Studio 1973

Baron Paakkunainen | Make Lievonen | Matti Jakola | Nappi Ikonen | Olli Ahvenlahti | Pekka Rechardt | Reino Laine | Upi Sorvali

This is a curiosity in that so few recordings exist of Finnish bands of the era. Although dubbed as ‘fusion’,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2016

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