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

Nicole Mitchell: Maroon Cloud

Aruán Ortiz | Fay Victor | Nicole Mitchell | Tomeka Reid

Flautist-composer Mitchell's substantial quantity of releases has been matched by quality, and this is no exception to the rule. Again...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2018

Oliver Nelson: A Taste of Honey/Impressions of Phaedra

Two film scores in their entirety by Nelson and a NY all-star big band are good additions to any Nelson...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Sonny Rollins: Rollins Plays For Bird

Ben Riley | Bob Cranshaw | Charlie Parker | George Morrow | Harry T. Saunders | Jim Hall | Kenny Dorham | Max Roach | Miles Davis | Percy Heath

It's easy to see why Plays For Bird is often overlooked when talking of Rollins's Prestige period, since the opening...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2015

Jacques Coursil: Hostipitality Suite

Jacques Coursil

Montmartre-born trumpeter Jacques Coursil moved to New York in 1956 where he led the jazz life, making dynamic contributions to...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: October/2020