Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms

Javier Carmona | Roberto Sassi | Roland Ramanan

Trumpeter Roland Ramanan (son of the late Shake Keane, trumpeter on Joe Hariott’s most groundbreaking early free-jazz sessions) came up...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2013

Dupont–Argüelles–Berjeaut: Trio Kosmos

British born Paris-based drummer Steve Argüelles prefers the ambient electronica-influenced end of jazz in contrast to his sax brother Julian's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021

Filipe Monteiro: In Bad Company

Now London-based, this world-jazz guitarist writes sweet 'n' mellow tunes on his debut with folk influences coming mostly from Brazilian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Jonah Jones: The Unsinkable Jonah Jones

A sequel to the first two Capitol albums by Jones reviewed last month, this is more of the same, plus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Tani Tabbal Trio: Now Then

Adam Siegel | Michael Bisio | Tani Tabbal

Tani Tabbal hails from a long line of Chicagoan drummers – Gene Krupa, Jo Jones, Tony Williams – who have...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: April/2021

Mike Reed: Flesh & Bone

Having his multi-racial band frighteningly caught up in a neo-Nazi rally while touring in Czech Republic, the Chicago-based African-American drummer...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Ketil Bjørnstad: A Suite of Poems

Anneli Drecker | Ketil Bjørnstad

Some time ago the Norwegian-Danish writer Lars Sabye Christensen began composing poems in the various hotel rooms he was staying...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2018

Album Interview: Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun

Jason Vieaux | John Dearman | Matthew Greif | Pat Metheny | Scott Tennant | William Kanengiser

Pat Metheny's fascinating odyssey through music continues. Perspicacious as ever, his change of record label to Modern Recordings/BMG presented the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021

Jan Lundgren: Together Again… at the Jazz Bakery

The Bud Powell-influenced Swede's straightahead piano trio returns to LA's Jazz Bakery 17 years later and eloquently breeze through a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Global Noize – Jason Miles, DJ Logic & Falu: A Prayer for the Planet

Andy Snitzer | Brian Dunne | DJ Logic | Emily Bindiger | Falu Logic | Jason Kibler | Jason Miles | Jay Rodriguez | Jeff Coffin | Jeff Mironov

Global Noize is a musical collective headed by producer and synth programmer extraordinaire Jason Miles (his cv includes Miles Davis,...

Reviewed by George Cole in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012