Fire! Orchestra: Ritual

Andreas Werliin | Anna Högberg | Edvin Nahlin | Finn Loxbo | Hild Sofie Tafjord | Johan Berthling | Jonas Kullhammar | Julian Desprez | Lotte Anker | Mads Forsby

Fire! Orchestra may be rocking a new, slim-line configuration of just 21 members (reduced from over 30), but their third...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2016

Cannonball Adderley: Swingin’ In Seattle: Live at The Penthouse 1966-1967

Cannonball Adderley | Joe Zawinul | Nat Adderley | Roy McCurdy | Victor Gaskin

In the current climate of rediscovered tapes, ‘lost’ recordings and archive trawling, fans of Cannonball Adderley might think themselves a...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: March/2019

The Liberation Music Collective: Rebel Portraiture

Led by Indiana-based vocalist Hannah Fidler and trumpeter Matt Riggen, this is a modern day version – lying somewhere between...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

The Core Trio: Live featuring Matthew Shipp

Joe Hertenstein | Matthew Shipp | Seth Paynter | Thomas Helton

Like Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas' Black Top, The Core Trio – who operate out of Texas – always perform...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2017

Jason Seizer: Cinema Paradiso

This German pianist goes to Hollywood with Enrico Morricone, Leonard Bernstein through to Alexandre Desplat among the composers given the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Album Interview: Soweto Kinch/LSO: White Juju

Gregory Hutchinson | Lee Reynolds | Nick Jurd | Rick Simpson | Soweto Kinch | the London Symphony Orchestra

With 2019's The Black Peril, saxophonist, rapper, composer and former history student Soweto Kinch further stretched the list of cultural...

Reviewed by John Fordam in issue: February/2023

The Modern Jazz Disciples: Complete Recordings

Al Harewood | Art Taylor | George Tucker | Grant Green | Horace Parlan | Paul Chambers | Stanley Turrentine | Tommy Flanagan

The Modern Jazz Disciples! Who they? Er, three cats from Cincinnati, another from Kentucky and an Irish drummer looking to...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018

Susan Alcorn: Soledad

Michael Formanek | Susan Alcorn

It's wholly fitting that this questing US pedal steel guitarist has chosen to interpret the nuevo tango of Astor Piazzolla...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: June/2015

Jimmy Smith/Lou Donaldson: Complete Studio Recordings

Drawn from selected Blue Note albums this catches Smith at his best for that label (1957-1963) paired with the on-form...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

James P Johnson: Carolina Shout

Al Casey | Ben Webster | Bessie Smith | Eddie Condon | Edmond Hall | Ethel Waters | Fats Waller | Frankie Newton | James P. Johnson | Max Kaminsky

James P has long been called ‘The Father Of Stride Piano’ (as one of the many subtitles of this album...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2022