Daniel Humair: Quatre Fois Trois

With a personnel line-up that surely can't fail to deliver including Dave Liebman, Marc Ducret, Joachim Kühn and Michel Portal,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Wesseltoft, Schwarz, Berglund: Trialogue

Bugge Wesseltoft | Dan Berglund | Henrik Schwarz

Building on 2011's Duo, Wesseltoft and Schwarz create a piano trio with the addition of former EST bassist Dan Berglund....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2014

Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris To Paris (Live At Sons D’Hiver)

Babu Atiba | Brett Carson | Doussou Touré | Dudu Kouaté | Eddy Kwon | Enoch Willliamson | Erina Newkirk | Famoudou Don Moye | Hugh Ragin | Jaribu Shahid

As the first European city to give them much-needed performance and recording opportunities in the late 1960s, Paris has a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023

Harriet Tubman: The Terror End Of Beauty

Brandon Ross | JT Lewis | Melvin Gibbs

Harriet Tubman is one of the great bands of our age, first and foremost because it challenges any received wisdom...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2019

James Brandon Lewis/Chad Taylor: Radiant Imprints

Chad Taylor | James Brandon-Lewis

In the past decade saxophonist Brandon-Lewis has done excellent work with his trio both on stage and in the studio,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2019

Puul Puul: Optical

Puul Puul is half the personnel – bassist Tim Harries and Norwegian electronica artist and percussionist Terje Evensen – of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Weather Report: The Columbia Albums 1971-1975

Airto Moreira | Alex Acuna | Alphonse Mouzon | Alphonso Johnson | Don Um Romao | Eric Gravatt | Joe Zawinul | Leon ‘Ndugu’ Chancler | Miroslav Vitous | Wayne Shorter

Of all the groups that emerged fired up and ready-to-roll in the first golden dawn of early-1970s jazz-rock fusion Weather...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: October/2012

Miles Davis: Unissued Café Bohemia Broadcasts

Allen Eager | Art Farmer | Bill Evans | Candido Camero | Chambers | Coltrane | Gerry Mulligan | Gigi Gryce | Jimmy Cleveland | Jimmy Cobb

Well, here’s a turn-up – 40 minutes of the first Miles quintet that is genuinely unissued. Recorded off-air but with...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2013

Horace Shankley and the Nubian Noise Collective: All the Doors of Perception Have Opened and the Key is under the Mat of

Chips Foster | Hector Alisandro | Ho Chi Minh Smith | Horace Shankley | Lionel Binky | Marcellina Abracadabra | Milton Candalevski | Procter Blenkinsop | Shalamar Tibbs | Shelton Onions

“This outfit blew my sandals off!” gushed the Village Voice on the release of the debut album from the NNC...

Reviewed by J.J. Geiger in issue: May/2017

Cheer-Accident: Putting Off Death

Beth Yates | Carmen Armilias | Cory Bengsten | Dante Kester | Jeff Libersher | Joan Morrone | Mike Hegedorn | Rob Pleshar | Ross Feller | Sacha Mullin

If you've been holding your breath since the Accident's last outing, you're doubtless a shade purple as six years have...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2017