Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out
As a result of the Zappa Family Trust regaining control of their album catalogue from Rykodisc, and signing a new...
Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: November/2012
David Lyttle: Faces
David Lyttle began his career as a child performer with the Lyttle Family. Now (just) in his 30s, he has...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015
The Underflow
David Grubbs | Mats Gustafsson | Rob Mazurek
Though recorded live in Athens, Greece – at the Underflow Record Shop And Art Gallery, thus gifting the project its...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2020
John Graas & Art Pepper: Complete Small Group Sessions
It's said that the French horn is frequently used in orchestral music to both soothe or lift the spirits –...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2017
Mary Stallings: Songs Were Made to Sing
A celebration of a lifetime in jazz (including stints with Cal Tjader, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie and the Count Basie...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2019
Rez Abbasi Trio: Continuous Beat
John Hebert | Rez Abbasi | Satoshi Takeishi
Abbasi is nothing if not fecund. This is his ninth album, but at least his third in rapid succession...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013
Matthew Goodheart & The Broken Ghost Consort: Presences
Georg Wissel | George Cremaschi | Matthew Goodheart | Matthias Muche | Melvyn Poore
You don’t need a degree in electro-acoustic sound engineering to appreciate what’s going on here, but it probably helps.Goodheart’s piece...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021
Jaga Jazzist: Starfire
We live in a machine music age that's reached an increasingly polarised apotheosis. At one end ‘artists’ with barely a...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: August/2015
David Binney: Lifted Land
Craig Taborn | David Binney | Eivind Opsvik | Tyshawn Sorey
He might slip under the radar these days more than he should, but the Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist-composer David Binney is...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013
Alex Sipiagin: Ascent To The Blues
Alex Sipiagin | Art Hirahara | Boris Kozlov | Diego Rivera | Rudy Royston
Sipiagin has been a mainstay of the New York scene since moving from Russia in 1990, and has been a...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2022
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