Alexander Hawkins: Iron Into Wind (Pears From An Elm)

Alexander Hawkins

The formidably skilful and idiosyncratically receptive pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins last made a solo album in 2013, and his...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019

Pan-Scan Ensemble: Air and Light and Time and Space

One of those where you really had to be there I guess: free jazz collective mayhem Scandinavian-stylee recorded live in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Edwin Sanz: Overflow

Alex Wilson | Carlitos Padron | Dimitris Christopolous | Edwin Sanz | Elvin Castillo | Irving Manuel | Jerry Brown | Johan Escalante | Mike Lindup | Naomi Phillips

A modern latin jazz album created in Europe by Geneva-based Sanz – a Venezuelan percussion maestro who has worked with...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2016

ICP Tentet: Tetterettet

Alan Silva | Bert Koppelaar | Gilius Van Bergeyk | Han Bennink | John Tchicai | Michel Waisvisz | Misha Mengelberg | Peter Bennink | Peter Brötzmann | Tristan Honsinger

For the ICP Tentet's debut album, a crack team of Dutch improvisers from the Instant Composers Pool are bolstered not...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2019

Ahmed Abdul-Malik and Chick Ganimian: Oud Vibrations

Ahmed Abdul-Malik | Charles “Chick” Ganimian

Yusuf Lateef's 1957 album Prayer To The East is often cited as one of the first eastward investigations in jazz,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2012

Joey Alexander: Eclipse

Eric Harland | Joey Alexander | Joshua Joshua Redman | Reuben Rogers

Even Mozart, the quintessential musical child prodigy, couldn't lay claim to two Grammy-nominated albums by the age of 14. Bali-born...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2018

Tina May meets Enrico Pieranunzi: Home Is Where The Heart Is

Enrico Pieranunzi | Tina May | Tony Coe

May is a favourite of mine, a genuine jazz vocalist who can illuminate and transform familiar themes in often quite...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2015

Nat King Cole Trio: Zurich 1950

Irving Ashby | Jack Costanzo | Joe Comfort | Nat King Cole

Cole's 1950 European tour had opened in the UK to mixed reviews. Commentators and audiences found his vocals too saccharine...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2017

Ray Gelato And The Giants: Original Flavours

Alex Garnett | Anders Janes | Andy Rogers | Danny Marsden | Gunther Kurmayr | Oli Hayhurst | Ollie Wilby | Ray Gelato | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom

Bandleader Ray Gelato has been earning his daily crust for many years with his Giants, touring widely, their music and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2015

Evan Parker/Daunik Lazro/Joe McPhee: Seven Pieces: Live at Willisau 1995

Daunik Lazro | Evan Parker | Joe McPhee

In 1995, three of our finest saxophonists – one British, one French and one American – toured Germany, France and...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2017