Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes

Bill Carbone | Charlie Kohlhase | Dave Ambrosio | Jared Sims | Matt Steckler | Terry Goss

Dead Cat Bounce, led by New York-based composer and reedsman Matt Steckler, has a cheeky, massed horn approach similar to...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2012

Omer Klein: Personal Belongings

Amir Bresler | Haggai Cohen-Milo | Omer Klein

The aptly-titled Personal Belongings originated close to the heart of the gifted Frankfurt-resident Israeli pianist Omer Klein, being a half-dozen...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2021

SEED Ensemble: Driftglass

Cassie Kinoshi | Chelsea Carmichael | Cherise Adams-Burnett | Joe Armon-Jones | Joe Bristow | Miguel Gorodi | Mr. Ekow | Patrick Boyle | Rio Kai | Sarah Tandy

Though Cassie Kinoshi is fully aware of 1960s American civil rights suites such as her alto icon Jackie McLean’s It’s...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2019

Tony Malaby’s Sabino: The Cave of Winds

Ben Monder | Michael Formanek | Tom Rainey | Tony Malaby

In years to come, our tales of how we coped with the great early-2020s pandemic will be as many and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2022

Metá Metá: MM3

Acclaimed Sao Paulo Afro-jazz-punk agit prop band tackle head on their home country's institutional corruption and racism with determined grit...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra: The Concert at The Pleyel, Paris 1958

Britt Woodman | Clark Terry | Duke Ellington | Fats Ford | Harold Baker | Harry Carney | Jimmy Hamilton | Jimmy Johnson | Jimmy Woode | John Sanders

Although the liner notes do not say, the 1958 Pleyel concert took place on 20 November and was probably televised...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2013

Vitor Pereira Quintet: New World

Didier Lockwood | Francis Lockwood | Gordon Beck | Jean-Michel Kajdan | John Etheridge | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Tony Williams

A London resident since 2004, this is the Portuguese guitarist's second recording for quintet and features an assertive sax duo...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Helen Anahita Wilson: Bhooma

Helen Anahita Wilson

Pianist Wilson’s adopted moniker Anahita is the name of a Persian water goddess, associated with flowing creativity. On the strength...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2019

Stickmen ft Gary Husband: Owari

Gary Husband | Markus Reuter | Pat Mastelotto | Tony Levin

Tony Levin and Pat Mastellotto's deep understanding of each other over the decades with King Crimson and their own projects...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron: Left Alone

Archie Shepp | Mal Waldron

Almost two decades have elapsed since the release of this gorgeous album, an object lesson in the art of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022