Blueblut: Hurts so Gut

With song titles such as ‘Fuckhead Toothbrush’ you know you're in for a treat in the quirky company of leading...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Vienna Art Orchestra: The Minimalism Of Erik Satie

Christian Radovan | Hannes Kottek | Harry Sokal | Ima | John Sass | Karl “Bumi” Fian | Lauren Newton | Mathias Rüegg | Roman Schwaller | Wolfgang Puschnig

The employment of his music in adverts for chocolate and throat lozenges has not done much for the contemporary reputation...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: June/2011

Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet: Goldbrun

Gulli Gudmunsson | Joost Lijbaart | Wolfert Brederode | Yuri Honing

In 2018, there’s nothing new in jazz musicians presenting versions of post-Beatles pop tunes. You might even say it’s the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2018

Don Pullen: Richard's Tune

Don Pullen

Apart from his self-produced duo recordings with drummer Milford Graves, this was Pullen's first album under his own name, done...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2014

Teresa Brewer: The Songs Of Bessie Smith/It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Count Basie | Duke Ellington | Teresa Brewer | Thad Jones

As the jazz critic Nat Hentoff writes in the original liner notes, “I can't recall any evolution quite like that...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015

Kazemde George: I Insist

Adam Arruda | Isaac Wilson | Kazemde George | Sami Stevens | Tyron Allen II

Brooklyn-based now, George is a Caribbean American saxophonist from Berkeley, California, who says these 10 compositions reflect the ‘experiences, circumstances...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2021

Nabatov, Reijseger, Schubert: Square Down

European master musicians, of both a free and more lyrical jazz, share musical ideas, either energetic or ruminative in sonic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Graham Bleasdale: I Believe

This attractive sounding British singer-songwriter, with influences from old soul-pop through to gospel and country, is backed by British jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Omara Portuondo and Chucho Valdes: Omara and Chucho

Chucho Valdes | Omara Portuondo | Rossio Jimenez Blanco | Wynton Marsalis

A pairing of musical greats that makes perfect sense – indeed, why did it take them so long this time?...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011

Adam Kolker: Beckon

The Brooklyn Jazz Underground tenor saxophonist-composer keeps it sweet and warm in an, at times, folkish cool chamber jazz sextet...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017