Yelena Eckemoff: Nocturnal Animals
Arild Andersen | Jon Christensen | Thomas Strønen | Yelena Eckemoff
Russian-born Eckemoff has appeared in these pages before, but her output seems to far outstrip our coverage. Fifteen albums in...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020
Album Interview: Pulled by Magnets: Rose Golden Doorways
Neil Charles | Pete Wareham | Seb Rochford
Contemporary jazz is a spectrum and there are few musician-composers in the field that epitomise its openness more than the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020
Splinters: Inclusivity
Jeff Clyne | John Stevens | Kenny Wheeler | Phil Seamen | Stan Tracey | Trevor Watts | Tubby Hayes
One of the most fascinating experimental projects launched during the turmoil of the early 1970s British modern jazz scene was...
Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: February/2022
Romanovská Tichý Hubrý: Bylo To Právé/It Was Right At
Anna Romanovská | Michal Hubrý | Petr Tichý
If you don't have connections to what's happening in Prague, it's hard to stay abreast of Bohemia's musical bohemia. The...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: February/2021
Tommaso Starace Harmony Less Quartet: Narrow Escape
Dave O'Higgins | Davide Liberti | Ruben Bellavia | Tommaso Starace
Milan-born and UK-educated saxophonist Tommaso Starace makes his devotion to hard bop pretty clear on Narrow Escape, but it's no...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019
JD Allen: Barracoon
Ian Kenselaar | JD Allen | Nic Cacioppo
JD Allen's 13th album marks a return to no-frills sax-and-rhythm piano-free jazz. The saxophonist's peppery warmth and tonal inflections recall...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2019
Uri Caine: The Drummer Boy
Caine is an excellent pianist and arranger, while Gustav Mahler was an extraordinary composer. But hearing the famous passing—note discord...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2012
Woven Entity
If rhythm is the foundation, then here's a group that was built from the ground up. Take a couple of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2015
GK4: Improvisations 1-7
Charlie Hart | George Khan | Mike Figgis | Terry Day
GK4 may sound like a dodgy government security firm, but, as most will know, their roots go back to the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2023
The Universal Quartet: Light
Adam Rudolph | Kasper Tranberg | Yusef Lateef
‘Universal’ is a term indelibly associated with the likes of Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, and its use in the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2014
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