The Miles Davis Quintet: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions

John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland

This vinyl box, actually presented in the form of ‘an album’ in the way a collection of 12-inch 78rpm records...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2020

Nightports with Tom Herbert

Adam Martin | Mark Slater | Tom Herbert

Adam Martin and Mark Slater AKA Nightports are an experimental studio production team currently recording a series of collaborations with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2022

Oddarrang: Agartha

Ilmari Pohjola | Lasse Lindgren | Lasse Sakara | Olavi Louhivuori | Osmo Ikonen

The quartet Oddarang's 2007 debut album won the Finnish equivalent of a Grammy for best jazz album, and were first...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

The Steve Fishwick/Osian Roberts/Frank Basile Sextet: In The Empire State

Frank Basile | Jeb Patton | Matt Fishwick | Mike Karn | Osian Roberts | Steve Fishwick

For my (rapidly falling off the perch) generation, the British trumpet player was unquestionably Jimmy Deuchar. And for those who...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2016

Jim Hall: Three Classic Albums Plus

This excellent double-album compendium captures the earliest recordings of Jim Hall, the quintessential example of a guitarist's guitarist. You don't...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2019

Josephine Davies’ Satori: How Can We Wake?

Josephine Davies

How Can we Wake? is saxophonist-composer Josephine Davies's trio Satori's third – and second ‘live’ – album since forming in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020

Nate Smith: Kinfolk 2: See The Birds

Brittany Howard | Fima Ephron | Jaleel Shaw | Joel Ross | Kokayi | Michael Mayo | Nate Smith | Regina Carter | Stokley Amma Whatt | Vernon Reid

Smith is one of several notable Americans who straddle the world of jazz, soul and electronica and have an avowed...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2021

Phil Robson Trio: The Cut Off Point

Gene Calderazzo | Phil Robson | Ross Stanley

The wonder is that it's taken Robson so long to set up such a trio. What doesn't surprise however is...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2015

Stephen Crump's Rhombal: Rhombal

Adam O’Farrill | Ellery Eskelin | Stephen Crump | Tyshawn Sorey

Sometimes discarding a harmonic instrument leads to self-indulgence, but on this bass-led quartet album, it has clearly concentrated the mind....

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2016

Clark Tracey Quintet: No Doubt

Alexandra Ridout | Clark Tracey | Elliott Samson | James Owston | Sean Payne

It’s Clark’s 40th year in jazz and this is the latest in his succession of groups which introduce exceptionally talented...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019