Masabumi Kikuchi: Wishes/Kochi

Al Foster | Anthony Jackson | Dave Liebman | Masabumi Kikuchi | M'tume | Reggie Lucas | Steve Grossman | Terumasa Hino

The recent unearthing of Miles Davis's 1970 Fillmore dates provided a thrilling glimpse of the birth of the gritty funk-jazz-rock...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2014

Ryo Fukui: Scenery

A 1976 album by the self-taught Japanese pianist Fukui and his trio, which mainly tackles standards that swing appealingly in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Grant Green: Green Street

Ben Tucker | Dave Bailey | Grant Green

Certain classic Blue Note recordings do not age as well as others and this is an example. Early in his...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Josh Kyle: Possibilities

Geoff Gascoyne | Josh Kyle | Ratyh Sahmins | Tom Cawley

From the very opening bars of Hoagy Carmichael's ‘Stardust’ – not, by any means, an easy song to nail –...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Mark Sutton: Crest Of A Wave

No sleeve notes at all here, just the words, “mellow piano tunes” and that’s certainly no word of a lie...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011

Various: Beat Generation – Hep Cats, Hipsters & Beatniks 1936-1962

Art Tatum | Billie Holiday | Bo Diddley | Bud Powell | Edd Byrnes | Jack Kerouac | Louis Jordan | Miles Davis | Roy Eldridge | Stan Getz

Produced in association with the Centre Pompidou at the time of last summer's Beat Generation exhibition in Paris, this 3CD...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Nigel Price Organ Trio: Heads and Tales

Alex Garnett | Matt Home | Nigel Price | Pete Whittaker | Snowboy

The bored squaddie who took up guitar in a Belfast barracks continues to march onwards and upwards. Having emerged from...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2012

Milford Graves: Bäbi

Arthur Doyle | Hugh Glover | Milford Graves

Originally released in 1977 on Institute of Percussive Studies, the label founded by Graves and fellow free-jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019

The Nils Landgren Funk Unit: Funk Is My Religion

Sweet soul, groove-jazz and funk has been the retro ingredients effectively served up by trombonist Nils Landgren over the last...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Brand/Beresford/Edwards/Sanders: All Will Be Said, All To Do Again

John Edwards | Mark Sanders | Sarah Gail Brand | Steve Beresford

It's hard to name more than a handful of trombonists working in free improv - Alan Tomlinson and Conny Bauer...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2019