Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Jazz in the Space Age

João Paulo Esteves da Silva

As national jazz orchestras go, Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos is remarkably progressive, performing repertoires of all aesthetic variants and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2020

Jayanthi Kumaresh: Mysterious Duality

Jayanthi Kumaresh

In the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent's musicological realms, veena (or vina) can mean more than one thing. In its generic sense it...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Eriend Apneseth Trio: Lokk

The Hardanger fiddle specialist Apneseth makes an otherworldly combination of native folk sounds, Indian Raga, electronica and field samples seem...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2021

Miguel Gorodi Nonet: Apophenia

Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Gareth Lockrane | George Crowley | Kieran McLeod | Michael Chillingworth | Miguel Gorodi | Ralph Wyld | Ray Hearne

The young Spanish-born trumpeter Miguel Gorodi is a fairly recent ex-Guildhall graduate whose initial efforts have sent him mostly in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Jonathan Barber: Vision Ahead

Drummer Jonathan Barber has pedigree as a member of Marcus Strickland and JD Allen's band, but his quintet's spacey New...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Silence Blossoms

Gus Loxbo | Hanna Olivegren | Sam Andreae

This eponymous Anglo-Scandinavian debut is essentially an exploration of simple song forms – albeit one that places those songs in...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2014

Vincent Herring: Preaching To The Choir

Vincent Herring

One of the less-lionised among the Young Lions of the 1990s, Herring perhaps didn’t get the same publicity because he...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2021

Throttle Elevator Music Featuring Kamasi Washington: Retrospective

Ava Mendoza | Erik Jekabson | Gregory Howe | Kamasi Washington | Matt Montgomery | Thomas McRee

While the name Throttle Elevator Music suggests a group, the marketing doesn't leave the star status of one of its...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2017

John Bailey Quartet: Heart Horizons

The 28-year-old Preston-born, Leeds College of Music graduate is a world and folk-inflected classical guitarist and his improvising quartet includes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band

Alex Hitchcock | Cherise Adams-Burnett | Chris Cheek | David Adewumi | Deschanel Gordon | Ferg Ireland | Jas Kayser | Jason Brown | Joe Downard | Luisito Quintero

Lockdown provided us all with a stream of solipsistic solo records. But Alex Hitchcock looks outside of himself on Dream...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: December/January/2021/2022