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

Jerome Richardson: Complete 1958-62 Recordings

The prolific freelancer leads four sessions from 1958-62 that show exactly why he was the reed-player of choice for so...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016

Hristo Vitchev Quartet: In Search of Wonders

This Bulgarian-born Bay Area resident guitarist releases a 2CD set of dreamily lyrical originals in a contemporary Metheny-influenced fusion setting....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

John Warren The Brass Project: The Traveller's Tale

Chris Laurence | Guy Barker | John Marshall | John Surman | John Warren | Kenny Hamilton | Malcolm Griffths | Pete Beachill | Richard Edwards | Steve Sidwell

Today, anything by the late lamented Brass Project of John Warren and John Surman is worth grabbing without a second's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2017

Bill Watrous: La Zorra

Speed, luscious tone, multiphonics, articulation, slurs, slips and slides – they're all here in a 1980 session that shows off...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2015