Max Roach Quintet: Swiss Radio Days

Bobby Boswell | Julien Priester | Max Roach | Stanley Turrentine | Tommy Turrentine

For Max Roach the sudden death of trumpet icon Clifford Brown and piano prodigy Richie Powell in a 1956 Pennsylvania...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: March/2014

Chet Baker: Chet: The Lyrical Trumpet of Chet Baker

Bill Evans | Bob Corwin | Bud Shank | Chet Baker | Clifford Jarvis | Connie Kay | Earl May | Herbie Mann | Jack Montrose | Joe Mondragon

The plethora of Chet Baker reissues continues and each of these releases has something to commend it, although the bonus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2020

Magos and Limón: Dawn

Alan Jackson | Harry Miller | John Surman | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Mike Osborne

Dawn is a collaboration between Mexican-born, NYC-based jazz singer Magos Herrera and Madrid-born guitarist, composer and producer Javier Limón, in...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2015

Shintaro Quintet: Evolution

Shintaro Nakamura

British label BBE's ‘ J Jazz Master series’, which focuses on independent and largely unknown parts of the Japanese scene...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Brandon Seabrook/Cooper-Moore/Gerald Cleaver: In The Swarm

Brandon Seabrook | Cooper-Moore | Gerald Cleaver

With electictic instrumentation including a banjo and a diddley-bow (the primitive one-string contraption that sat at the heart of early...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022

Chris Conway & Andy Nicholls: Pathways

Besides his solo jazz output, Leicester-based pianist Conway has made countless new age/mood music recordings and there's a similar non-offensive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Yaron Herman: Alma

Yaron Herman

One of many pianists who have produced occasional solo albums, the Israeli-born Herman has mainly recorded in a trio context...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2023

Nik Turner and Youth: Pharaohs from Outer Space

Nik Turner | Youth

Killing Joke bassist and producer Youth's new label, Painted Word, directly homages ECM's austere design and preference for “experimental ambient...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2018

Joe Farrell: Joe Farrell Quartet

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Joe Farrell | John McLaughlin

Re-releases of rare bona fide jazz classics don’t come around too often, so when they do grab them. This album...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013

Oceans of Silver and Blood: Acetate

Joachim Nordwall | Mark Wastell

The two shimmering yet visceral improvisations on this mini-album were originally released on Nordwall's own imprint back in 2014. Sadly,...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022