Cat Toren: Ocelot

It's rather difficult to warm to the forbidding brand of avant-garde jazz offered by the Brooklyn-based, Canadian pianist Cat Toren's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

Jazzmeia Horn: Love and Liberation

Ben Williams | Jamison Ross | Jazzmeia Horn | Josh Evans | Stacey Dillard | Sullivan Fortner | Victor Gould

Winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition, the Dallas-born, NYC-based vocalist Jazzmeia Horn released one of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2019

Horace Tapscott conducting The Pan-Afrikan People’s Arkestra: The Call

Adele Sebastian | Archie Johnson | David Bryant | Everett Brown Jnr | Herbert Callies | Horace Tapscott | James Andrews | Jesse Sharps | Kamonta Lawrence Folk | Lester Robertson

Just when the extensive and long overdue reissue programme of the music of Horace Tapscott looks set to have finished,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2021

Ravi Shankar: The Living Room Sessions Part 2

Barry Phillips | Kenji Ota | Ravi Shankar | Tanmoy Bose

This is the second volume to be culled from a four-day session recorded at Ravi Shankar’s living room in his...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: September/2013

Raul Midón with the Metropole Orkest conducted by Vince Mendoza: If You Really Want

Metropole Orkest | Raul Midón | Vince Mendoza

Vocalist/guitarist Midón has mined a rich seam as a solo artist, building a large international fanbase by way of excellent...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Ensemble 5: Luminescence

Experimental percussionist Heinz Geisser's ensemble's intensely conversational, atonally melodic dialogue – Naoki Kita's unconventional violin being the standout voice –...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021

Wayne Escoffery: Vortex

David Kikoski | Jacquelene Acevedo | Jeremy Pelt | Kush Abadey | Ralph Peterson | Ugonna Okegwo | Wyne Escoffery

You probably know towering tenorman Escoffery well from his gigs here in the UK with the Mingus Big Band and...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2018

Blue Mitchell

Blue Mitchell | Doug Sides | Jimmy Forrest | Larry Gales | Walter Bishop Jr

Last year the New Land reissue label made a lot of friends with its very first release, a superb version...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022

Andrew Swift: Swift Kick

Andrew Swift | Curtis Stewart | Dwayne Burno | Eric Alexander | Evan Sherman | George Cables | Jeb Patton | John Lee | Matt Garrison | Michael Dease

Here's a very enterprising (and seemingly expensive) debut recording by an Australian drummer composer/arranger living in NYC who plays with...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2012

Mattan Klein Quartet: The Long Run

Joca Perpignan | Mattan Klein | Nitzan Bar | Toki Stern | Yoni Ben Ari

For this, his seventh album recording and the first for UK-based Ubuntu Music, Israeli flautist Mattan Klein closes a set...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: March/2022