Frank Gratkowski Quartet: Le Vent et La Gorge

Dieter Manderschied | Frank Gratkowski | Gerry Hemingway | Wolter Wierbos

Berlin-based reeds player, Frank Gratkowski, moves equally freely in both avant-jazz and New Music circles, displaying a Braxton-esque ability to...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2013

Barry Altschul & The 3Dom Factor: Live In Kraków

Barry Altschul | Joe Fonda | Jon Irabagon

This third album from the trio The 3Dom Factor, led by onetime Braxton and Sam Rivers drummer Barry Altschul, is...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2018

Aketi Ray: From Ever Since

Danny White | Darren McCarthy | Kevin Robinson | Mikolaj Gorecki | Niko Rouger | Rob Shipster | Tom Mason | Virgil Howe

The directive to ‘file under dub-jazz’ makes the premise of this work clear enough, but further dedications to the likes...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2018

Various Artists: Exotica Classics

Oddities galore by Miriam Burton (acquired taste), flautist Bob Romeo (better), Frank Hunter (strange) and the peerless Buddy Collette and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Pau Brasil & Ensemble SP & Renato Braz: Villa-Lobos Superstar

Betina Stegman | Marcelo Jaffé | Nelson Ayres | Nelson Rios | Paulo Bellinati | Renato Braz | Ricardo Mosca | Robert Suetholz | Rodolfo Stroeter | Teco Cardoso

Everyone in Brazil loves Heitor Villa-Lobos, that 20th century composer who once said that his first harmony teacher was a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2017

Frank Sinatra: Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Jobim | Frank Sinatra

For lovers of bossa nova, the 1967 studio album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim is an album that...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2017

Julian Shore: Which Way Now?

The ex-Gretchen Parlato pianist and composer Julian Shore’s sleepily lyrical quintet from New York features the promising guitarist Gilad Hekselman...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Sounds of A&R: Questions Left Unanswered…

April May Webb | Charlie Sigler | Jacob Webb | James Austin | Nathan Webb | Randall Haywood | Riza Printup

Singer April May Webb and trumpeter Randall Haywood are A and R, with an origin story portentously recalled in ‘Thus...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2021

JFK Quartet: New Jazz Frontiers from Washington/Young Ideas

1961 hard bop, Messengers-style by a fairly unknown band of young Washingtonians, this ranks as a good complement to any...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2013

Dave Newman: Fathead Comes On

Fathead Newman breaks out from the Ray Charles straightjacket playing fl ute and alto as well as tenor, with Marcus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014