Berserk: Berserk!

Cristiano Calcagnile | Eivind Aarset | Fabrizio Puglisi | Gianluca Petrella | Jamie Saft | Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari | Lorenzo Feliciati | Pat Mastelotto | Sandro Satta | Simone Cavina

Berserk! is precisely that, a bonkers mix of Goth death thrash electro-opera spliced with ambient grooves. Born from a collaboration...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2013

Django Reinhardt: The Last Studio Sessions

Late Django on electric guitar, this material is frequently issued: maybe the original French Verve or final set of the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2013

The Thing: Boot!

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten | Mats Gustafsson | Paal Nilssen-Love

Just when you thought The Thing couldn't get any heavier, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten ditches the double bass, plugs in the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Bill Connors: Of Mist And Melting

Bill Connors | Gary Peacock | Jack DeJohnette | Jan Garbarek

It was around 1974 that the ex-Return to Forever guitarist Bill Connors made the change from electric to acoustic, and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Andrei Kondakov and Brazil All Stars: Songs for my Father

A largely uninspiring, loungey bossa-led set of originals by a septet formed over a decade ago by a high profile...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

James Carter: Caribbean Rhapsody

Akua Dixon | Chala Yancy | Giancarlo Guerrero | James Carter | Kenny Davis | Patrisa Tomasini | Regina Carter | Robert Sierra | Ron Lawrence | Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra

As can be deduced from the details shown above, this album is an ambitious affair. It comprises two main works,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2011

Vinnie Riccitelli Octet: For The Record

Bruce Bonvissuto | Chris Riccitelli | Eddie Monteiro | Glenn Drewes | Joe Stelluti | Leo Ursini | Lou Stelluti | Nathan Childers | Tony Tedesco | Vinnie Riccitelli

Here's a surprise. Having last recorded a jazz album under his own name back in 1956, 94-year old New York...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2021

Quincy Jones Big Band: The Complete 1960 European Concerts

Ake Persson | Benny Bailey | Budd Johnson | Buddy Catlett | Clark Terry | Clyde Reasinger | Floyd Standifer | Harold McNair | Jerome Richardson | Jimmy Cleveland

In the late 1950s Quincy Jones put together an all-star American big band to tour Europe as part of a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2022

Chet Baker: In Paris Complete Original Recordings

The three LPs and one EP that Baker recorded in 1955, either side of the death of Dick Twardzik, for...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013

Shirley Smart: Long Story Short

Demi Garcia Sabat | John Crawford | Nicolas Meier | Nikki Iles | Orphy Robinson | Shirley Smart

Shirley Smart originally trained as a classical cellist before relocating to Jerusalem, where she resided for the entire decade of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019