Alexis Cuadrado: A Lorca Soundscape

Alexis Cuadrado | Claudia Acuña | Dan Tepfer | Gilmar Gomes | Mark Ferber | Miguel Zenón

This recording is a prime example of why we reviewers have such problems coming up with a final ‘Year’s Ten...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2013

John Coltrane: Four Classic Albums

You could hardly go wrong compiling any non-Prestige Coltrane and calling it Four Classic Albums. Here, if the personnel details...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Ken Vandermark & Michael Snow: Duol

Ken Vandermark | Michael Snow

Canadian filmmaker Michael Snow's most famous works include the avant-garde classics Wavelength, from 1967, and 1964's New York Eye and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2018

Jacob Sacks: Fishes

This new high performance quintet recording from Sacks, a pianist-composer from Michigan, includes saxophonists Tony Malaby and Ellery Eskelin, and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019

Tyshawn Sorey Trio +1 with Greg Osby: The Off-Off Broadway Guide To Synergism

Aaron Diehl | Greg Osby | Russell Hall | Tyshawn Sorey

Two offs might make an on… or alternatively, it could be twice as off. Which means music that is doubly...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023

Tom Ward/Adam Fairhall: Susurrus

Moving between London and Manchester’s new-generation experimental jazz scenes, the reedsman Tom Ward and the acoustic pianist/accordionist Adam Fairhall are...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

John Escreet: Exception to the Rule

David Binney | Eivind Opsvik | John Escreet | Nasheet Waits

In the sleeve notes the Doncasterborn, New York-resident pianist John Escreet describes how his most recent mentor and now closest...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society: Father Of Origin

Abdul Wadud | Ali Abuwi | Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw | Earl Cross | Frank Lowe | Gene Dinwiddie | Julius Hemphill | Juma Sultan | Philip Wilson | Ralph Walsh

This astonishing audio/visual box set tells the hitherto undocumented story of bass player/percussionist Juma Sultan and his Aboriginal Music Society...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: May/2012

Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: Within Us

Chuck Owen | Warren Wolf

Originating in the University of South Florida (from where jazz educator Chuck Folds will retire later this year), the Jazz...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2021

Christian Muthspiel’s Yodel Group: Huljo

Bobby Previte | Christian Muthspiel | Franck Tortiller | Gerald Preinfalk | Jerome Harris | Matthieu Michel

Get that image of a traditional lederhosen-clad Alpine country dweller with a mountain scene stretched out behind him out of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012