Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place

Ambrose Akinmusire | Dayna Stephens | Gretchen Parlato | Jaleel Shaw | Joe Sanders | Justin Brown | Taylor Eigisti

Glib as it may sound, a marketing department may bill this as 1960s modernism àla Miles, Herbie, Evans et al,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2013

Enrico Rava: Edizione Speciale in Concert

Enrico Morello | Enrico Rava | Francesco Bearzatti | Francesco Deodati | Gabriele Evangelista | Giovana Guidi

Now 82 years of age, Enrico Rava has rightly been dubbed the Godfather of Italian jazz (‘Il Padrino’) and can...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet: Intuit

Joe Martin | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Michael Kanan | Tim Pleasant

Philly-born Kurt Rosenwinkel was still a relative newcomer when this album of standards – released in 1999 on CD only,...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2023

Jimmy Smith: Four Classic Albums

This is Smith at the height of his powers on Blue Note between 1957 and 1960, and with the larger...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Hans Lüdemann: Die Kunst Des Trios 1-5

Hans Lüdemann

Hans Lüdemann is not one for making life easy for himself. Last month he performed a solo concert in Cologne's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2012

Jackie Cain/Roy Kral: A Wilder Alias

A typically robust 1970s production by Creed Taylor for the vocal and piano duo, backed here by an all star...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Supersilent: 12

Arve Henriksen | Helge Sten | Ståle Storløkken

12 is the first record in four years from Norway's Supersilent, a band even less imaginative than Soft Machine when...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: November/2014

Noisy Mnoriy: Wrong is Right

Zurich-based saxophonist and regular Intakt label recording artist Omri Ziegele's free jazz collective quartet (featuring the maverick New York trombonist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Kenny Wheeler/John Dankworth Orchestra: Windmill Tilter (The Story Of Don Quixote)

Alan Branscombe | Alf Reece | Bob Cornford | Chris Pyne | Dave Holland | Derek Watkins | Dick Hart | Henry Lowther | Henry Shaw | John McLaughlin

Kenny Wheeler, the inimitable Canadian trumpet maestro and quiet legend of post-1960s jazz composition, had been playing all kinds of...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2021

Trøen-Armeson Quartet: Tread Lightly

Pianist Dag Armeson and flautist-saxophonist Elisabeth Lid Trøen lead us on a surpisingly lyrical tone journey that's redolent of Scandinavian...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2021