Tubby Hayes: Split Kick – Live In Sweden 1972

Alex Riel | Bengt Hallberg | Egil Johansen | Georg Riedel | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Staffan Abeleen | Tubby Hayes

Here's volume four of the Salvage-Solweig discoveries, a further cull from the cache of previously-unheard tapes held by the late...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2016

Chris Rand: Gathering

Andrew Noble | Ben Waters | Chris Rand | Dave Green | Derek Nash | Ed Benstead | Jason Reeve | Sam Leak | Shane Allessio

A self-confessed rock'n'roller who flirts with jazz and on this evidence does it well, Rand has put together a debut...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2017

Kenny Warren Quartet: Thank You For Coming To Life

JP Schlegelmilch | Kenny Warren | Noah Garabedian | Satoshi Takeishi

Colorado-born, New York-based Warren clearly has a lot more going for him than his distinguished initials. As well as indulging...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2017

Empirical: Elements of Truth

George Fogel | Lewis Wright | Nathaniel Facey | Shaney Forbes | Tom Farmer

Since winning the EBU Jazz Competition at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2007, Empirical seem to have undergone a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011

Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Conspiracy Nation

Arthur Doyle | Dave Cross | Ed Wilcox | Leslie Q | Tim Poland | Vinnie Paternostro

Best known for his 1977 LP Alabama Feeling, Doyle was the wild-man of second generation US free-jazz, with a raw,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2017

Construction: Centreline Theory

Hilmar Jensson | Jim Bashford | Robin Fincker | Tim Harries

Construction is British drummer Jim Bashford's band, named after the full-time job he took while originally studying music before going...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2016

Bob Downes: Mixed Bag Open Music

Alan Rushton | Barry Guy | Bob Downes | Brian Godding | Daryl Runswick | Derek Hogg | Harry Miller | John Stevens | Laurie Baker | Michael Heinen

Mixed Bag is just what it says on the tin; it's a collection from five decades of recording reflecting the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2013

Charles Mingus: Four Classic Albums (Second Set)

It's only a few months since two of these albums were reviewed on the Poll Winners label's The Clown +...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Miroslav Vitous: Purple

Billy Cobham | Joe Zawinul | John McLaughlin | Miroslav Vitous

There are many reasons why albums slip through the cracks. This one was only ever released in Japan and never...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2017

John Coltrane: Trane 90

Art Blakey | Art Taylor | Cannonball Adderley | Cecil Taylor | Dizzy Gillespie | Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy | George Russell | Jimmy Cobb | Jimmy Garrison

This well-organised look at the middle decade of Coltrane's career takes its title from the fact that he would have...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2017