Nguyên Lê Quartet: Streams

Chris Jennings | Illya Amar | John Hadfield | Nguyên Lê

The Paris-born Vietnamese guitarist Nguyên Lê has established one of the most standout, highly colourful project-based discographies on the ACT...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

The Gascoyne O'Higgins Quartet: The Real Note Vol. 2

Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom

Following the satisfying Vol. 1 comes the understandably titled Vol. 2 of this band's exploration of ‘contrafacts’: new compositions built...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014

Jason Jackson: Inspiration

Alina Bzhezhinska | Joel Prime | Larry Bartle | Tony Kofi

No, I wasn't sure who Jason Jackson was either! But he's been one of the hardest-working, most respected trombonists in...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2018

Clark Terry: Four Classic Albums

The remastering is far better here than on the Giuffre set, and three early Terry albums plus one under Jimmy...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Betty Carter: The Audience With Betty Carter

Betty Carter | Curtis Lundy | John Hicks | Kenny Washington

A feature on Betty Carter in the Village Voice in the late 1970s feared she might die an unknown genius...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2019

Pete Malinverni: On The Town – Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein

Jeff Hamilton | Pete Malinverni | Ugonna Okegwo

Malinverni is something of a veteran, not only as a New York-based mainstream jazz pianist, but also as composer and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2022

Wadada Leo Smith: Meditations On Monk/Najwa

Adam Rudolph | Bill Laswell | Brandon Ross | Henry Kaiser | Lamar Smith | Michael Gregory Smith | Pheeroan akLaff | Wadada Leo Smith

Two contrasting sides of the trumpeter-composer that are linked by creative slight of hand and conceptual audacity. Performing the music...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Renato D'Aiello: Satori, The Angel

Bruno Montrone | Deelee Dube | Gaspar Bertoncelj | Greg Riddell | Jamie Campbell | Jeff Otto | Meghan Cassidy | Michael Demarco | Nicola Murescu | Renato D'Aiello

Berklee-trained Italian tenorman D'Aiello has been a London fixture since 1999 and is noted for his warm, emotional style. Here...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2015

Cecil Taylor: Complete Live At The Café Montmartre

Cecil Taylor | Jimmy Lyons | Kurt Lindstrom | Sunny Murray

Such is the overwhelming idiosyncrasy of Taylor’s language it’s easy to overlook the fact that it was not created in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016

Gil Evans: Svengali

Billy Harper | Bruce Ditmas | Dave Sanborn | David Horowitz | Gil Evans | Hannibal Marvin Peterson | Herb Bushler | Howard Johnson | Joseph Daley | Peter Levin

The anagrammatic title, credited to one Gerry Mulligan, signals an album originally seen as a follow-up to the Ampex album...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2014