Andy Bey: Pages From An Imaginary Life

Andy Bey

Although the veteran has made a string of excellent group albums in the course of his six-decade career he remains...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Nicky Schrire: Freedom Flight

This London born, New York-based Manhattan School of Music graduate sings from a post-1960s singer-songwriter repertoire but with imaginative jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Chris Morrissey: North Hero

Aaron Parks | Chris Morrissey | Mark Guiliana | Mike Lewis

Chris Morrissey is a young New York-based bassist originally from the Minnesota area with a circle of collaborators that that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Minua: Still Light

Based in both Basel and Berlin, this serenely-toned, intimate young folky bass clarinet/twin-acoustic guitar trio pursue their gentle craft that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Thomas Maintz: Present

An understated Danish guitarist who uses a acoustic baritone to obtain some dark nuances with a top US rhythm section...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Graham Collier: Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days ’69

Graham Collier | Harry Beckett | John Marshall | Karl Jenkins | Nick Evans | Stan Sulzmann

Originally recorded for the Fontana label in March 1969, Down Another Road was notable for how Collier's compositional tapestries were...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Sarah Manning: Harmonious Creature

An East coast-based guitarist, mentored by recently departed world jazz pioneer Yusef Lateef, and her quintet (featuring viola) has a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Lyn Stanley: Lost in Romance

Why aren’t female MOR standard vocalists ever considered crooners? Well here’s one: a former US Ballroom dancing champ who can...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Julian Argϋelles: Tetra

James Maddren | Julian Argϋelles | Kit Downes | Sam Lasserson

Argϋelles, like pal Django Bates, has grown older most gracefully, as gnarly and anarchic as Loose Tube days, but tempered...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2015

Joe McPhee/Michael Marcus/Jay Rosen/Warren Smith: Blue Reality Quartet!

Jay Rosen | Joe McPhee | Michael Marcus | Warren Smith

Here’s the latest instalment in Arkansas-based Mahakala Music’s mission to bring together unfairly overlooked improvisers and free-jazz big guns. In...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021