Dave Jones Quartet: Resonance

Johnny Tomlinson | Kristoffer Wright | Paul Baxter

A Port Talbot-based piano quartet with additional horns/strings plays well-crafted tunes with some similarities to young London bassist Will Collier's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Michael Wollny Trio: Ghosts

Eric Schaefer | Michael Wollny | Tim Lefebvre

A very confident and assured showing by Michael Wollny's Trio who present a concept album linked to the theme of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Incidentals

Ches Smith | David Torn | Matt Mitchell | Oscar Noriega | Ryan Ferreira | Tim Berne

The 62-year-old progressive alto saxophonist-composer Tim Berne's Snakeoil's fourth CD for the ECM label is the follow-up to 2015's You've...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017

Grover Washington Jnr: Grover Live

Adam Holzman | Donald Robinson | Gerald Veasley | Grover Washington Jnr | Pablo Batista | Richard Lee Steacker | Steven Wolf

Recorded just two years before his untimely death this concert fully illustrates why Gil Scott-Heron felt the need to name...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2017

Django Reinhardt: At The Movies

A good collection of Django's original material used in three movies, including the tracks that inspired Woody Allen's Sweet and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2015

Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra: Resonant Bodies

Rudolph, a free thinking world-jazz percussionist best known for a lasting tenure with Yusef Lateef, composed and spontaneously conducted an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Iro Haarla Sextet: Kolibri

The ex-Edward Vesala collaborator and leading underground Finnish composer-pianist leads a fine sextet that’s both majestic and slyly inventive....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Orlando Le Fleming: Romantic Funk: The Unfamiliar

Kush Abadey | Nate Wood | Orlando Le Fleming | Philip Dizack | Sean Wayland | Will Vinson

Royal Academy-schooled bassist Le Fleming was already an in-demand UK-based sideman before taking off in 2003 for New York where...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Avishai Cohen/Yonathan Avishai: Playing The Room

Avishai Cohen | Yonathan Avishai

This is a gorgeous set - another delicate exploration of brass tonality, restrained improv eloquence and quiet empathy from the...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2019

Motorpsycho: Here Be Monsters

Bent Sæther | Kenneth Kapstad | Magnus ‘Snah’ Ryan | Thomas Henriksen

These heavy metal fruits get so stricken by the proggy bug that they can’t help but bounce out into propane-pulsing...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: April/2016