Evan Parker & Joe McPhee: What/If/They Both Could Fly

Evan Parker | Joe McPhee

Recorded live at the Norwegian Kongsberg Jazzfestival, this session captures the 68-year old Parker and 73-year old McPhee displaying all...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2014

Dom Franks StrayHorn: Native Tongues EP

Cheltenham-based saxophonist-composer's quartet plays a groove-based, good natured post-bop set....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Harold Land: Four Classic Albums

Avid's Classic Albums series has focused on several reed players whose work has come back into focus as a result,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Ketil Bjørnstad: La Notte

Andy Sheppard | Anja Lechner | Arild Andersen | Eivind Aarset | Ketil Bjørnstad | Marilyn Mazur

Ketil Bjørnstadt is more than a pianist, he is a bold, and, as the passage of time has demonstrated, inexhaustible...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2013

Morten Schantz: Godspeed

Anton Eger | Marius Neset | Morten Schantz

This is an important debut by Schantz on the Edition label, which is steadily making a name for itself across...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2017

Maurice Minardi: Piano Ambulance

Cellist Shirley Smart joins the Calabrian, London-based pianist's trio for his fourth release drawing heavily from the circularity and minimalism...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Stan Tracey: The 1959 Sessions

Kenny Napper | Phil Seaman | Stan Tracey | Tony Crombie

On 22 and 23 May, 1959, the Stan Tracey Trio – Tracey, Napper and Seaman – recorded Little Klunk for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2022

Hiroe Sekine: One World One Sun

The Californian-based, Japanese pianist has fused jazz with the sounds of her home country as well as Morocco, Indonesia, India...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Adam Bałdych/Vincent Courtois/Rogier Telderman: Clouds

Adam Baldych | Adam Bałdych | Rogier Telderman | Vincent Courtois

“On this album I wanted to play less than ever before,” says Polish violin virtuoso Adam Baédych. By which he...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2020

Finn Loxbo: Eter

The Stockholm-based guitarist and ex-FIRE! Orchestra member Finn Loxbo plays seven abstract solo improvisations on acoustic steel-string and calls on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2018