Ruby Rushton: Ironside

Aidan Shepherd | Ed Cawthorne | Nick Walters | Tim Carnegie

Better known as Tenderlonius, Ed Cawthorne reversed traditional steps to loving jazz, retracing the path of hip-hop and house records...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2019

Joey DeFrancesco: More Music

Joey DeFrancesco | Lucas Brown | Michael Ode

Joey DeFrancesco first emerged on to the scene as a ‘Hammond organ prodigy’ – he was invited to join Miles...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Trio Riot

David Meier | Mette Rasmussen | Sam Andreae

If ever a genre tag has been misused and abused over the last decade or so, it's ‘punk-jazz’. Often, it's...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2014

Album Interview: Christian McBride Trio: Out Here

Christian McBride | Christian Sands | Ulysses Owen, Jr

Although Christian McBride is a familiar figure within the piano trio context, he has never led a piano trio of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013

Abdullah Ibrahim: African Piano

Abdullah Ibrahim

Done on one of Ibrahim's return visits to Copenhagen's Montmartre, where the Dollar Brand Trio had been recorded for Fontana/Black...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2014

Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope of Rainbows

Niel Ardley

At the suggestion of Denis Preston, who had produced Ardley's The Greek Variations (1969) and A Symphony of Amaranths (1971)...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2021

Dom Franks' Strayhorn Quartet: Living With Spooks

Cheltenham-based saxophonist-composer Dom Franks' quartet offers a versatile mix of post-bop, rootsy grooves and funk-lite, with improvisatory sparkle care of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017

Collective X: Love & Protest

Alya Al-Sultani | Clemens Christian Potzssch | Cleveland Watkiss | Dave Ital | Joshua Idehen | Mark Sanders | Neil Charles | Orphy Robinson | Pat Thomas | Robert Menzel

Vocalist Alya Al-Sultani may currently have a relatively low profile on the UK jazz scene, but this new project Collective...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2018

Norma Winstone/Glauco Venier/Klaus Gesing: Descansado - Songs for Films

Glauco Venier | Helge Andreas Norbakken | Klaus Gesing | Mario Brunello | Norma Winstone

This is Norma Winstone’s fifth collaboration with Glauco Venier and Klaus Gesing – their first was Chamber Music recorded for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Wolfgang Haffner: Kind of Spain

Christopher Dell | Jan Lundgren | Lars Danielsson | Sebastian Studnitzky | Wolfgang Haffner

On his 2008 debut on the Act label, Haffner created a minor classic of European jazz with Acoustic Shapes, which...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2017