Amancio D'Silva: Konkan Dance

Alan Branscombe | Amancio D'Silva | Clem Alford | Don Rendall | Keshav Sathe | Mick Ripshar | Stan Tracey | Toni Campo

Konkan Dance is a Denis Preston production from London's Lansdowne Studios – the nexus for so much that occurred in...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: April/2015

Kayhan Kalhor and Erdal Erzincan: Kula Kulluk Yakisir Mi

Erdal Erzincan | Kayhan Kalhor

“How unseemly it is to follow anyone slavishly,” is ECM's press release's free (one suspects) translation for the title track....

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Andy Bey: The World According To Andy Bey

Andy Bey

Although his profile is by no means commensurate with his talent, the 73 year-old continues to make music that assures...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2013

Maria Grand: Magdalena

Amani Fela | David Bryant | Fabian Almazan | Jasmine Wilson | Jeremy Dutton | Maria Grand | Mary Halvorson | Rahsaan Carter

The 22-year-old NYC-based Swiss saxophonist, Grand, discovered the music of Steve Coleman by way of her father, who fell under...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2018

Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyōbin

Dave Holland | Derek Bailey | Evan Parker | John Stevens | Kenny Wheeler

It’s an alarming thought that the Spontaneous Music Ensemble’s Karyōbin – widely considered to be a founding document of British...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2018

Drifter: Flow

This is a very together CD. There is an ease and confidence of conception, which lifts this album out of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Stanley Turrentine: Look Out

Al Harewood | George Duvivier | George Tucker | Herbie Lewis | Horace Parlan | Les McCann | Max Roach | Otis Finch | Roy Brooks | Shirley Scott

Another of Jazz Images’ curious re-packings in which the headlining album is accompanied by three ‘bonus’ sessions which somehow don’t...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: March/2020

Terell Stafford: Brotherlee Love Celebrating Lee Morgan

Bruce Barth | Dana Hall | Peter Washington | Terell Stafford | Tim Warfield

Hard-hitting trumpeter Stafford has led this group for quite a while now and it certainly shows. It's as tight as...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2015

Sine Qua Non: Serge Gainsbourg Re-Imagined

Eddie Hick | Fayyaz Virji | Felix Tanner | Fran Harrison | Gilad Atzmon | Julian Rowlands | Laura Anstee | Leonardo Lara | Marianne Haynes | Matthew Bourne

The transgressive poet and Gallic chansonnier that is Serge Gainsbourg could never be tied to one musical genre in particular....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Joel Goodman: An Exquisite Moment

Adam Rogers | Bobby Shulgold | Brandee Younger | Brian Scanlon | Charlie Morillas | Donny McCaslin | Drew Forde | Eric Harland | Erika Walczak | Joe Mardin

Joel Goodman may not be familiar name in the jazz press, but the cast list of this album, his debut...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: August/2023