Chuck Mangione: Love Notes/Disguise/Save Tonight For Me

Three 1980s Columbia albums given BGO’s characteristically thorough reissue treatment, but ultimately this proto-smooth jazz palls swiftly....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2013

Trio Mediæval & Arve Henriksen: Rímur

Anna Maria Friman | Arve Henriksen | Berit Opheim | Linn Andrea Fuglseth

Time was when it was a sax, but these days there's nothing that says ‘jazz’ quite so clearly as the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017

Ilia Skibinsky: The Passage

Colin Stranahan | Edward Perez | Glenn Zaleski | Ilia Skibinsky | Joe Deninzon | Matt Jodrell | Matthew Silberman | Mike Moreno

As regular readers may already know, this reviewer is an ardent admirer of independent-minded American altoist David Binney.He has his...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2013

Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall: Live at the Half Note

Art Farmer | Jim Hall | Steve Swallow | Walter Perkins

Renowned for his good taste, flbeautiful tone, fluent swing andflunflappable cool, Art Farmerflwas among everyone's favouriteflperformers, particularly on ballads.flBorn in...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2014

Common Objects: Skullmarks

Angharad Davies | John Butcher | Lee Patterson | Lina Lapelyte | Pat Thomas | Rhodri Davies

Scattered among the colonial and shamanic bric-a-brac of Oxford’s cavernous Pitt Rivers Museum, Rhodri Davies’ sextet tease out their alien...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: Feb/2019

New Cool Collective: Yunikõn

The Netherlands' number one burning alto sax bebopper Benjamin Herman’s large ensemble were a big hit on the ‘live’ Euro...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Brother Jack McDuff Quartet with Grant Green: Goodnight, It's Time To Go/The Honeydripper

Ben Dixon | Brother Jack McDuff | Grant Green | Harold Vick | Jimmy Forrest | Joe Dukes

Jimmy Smith may well have possessed the virtuosity but Screamin' Brother Jack McDuff oozed an abundance of gurgling fatback soul...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014

Machito and his Afro Cuban Salseros: Mucho Macho

Machito

Machito was two years into a residency at La Conga Club in midtown Manhattan in May 1943, when he was...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2020

Album Interview: Vijay Iyer Trio: Accelerando

Marcus Gilmore | Stephan Crump | Vijay Iyer

The Vijay Iyer trio has the potential to alter the scope, ambition and language of jazz piano forever, and with...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: March/2012

Antonio Faraó American Quartet: Evan

Ira Coleman | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Joe Lovano | Judi Silvano

The Italian pianist is a sensitive rhythm player, a strong soloist and writes moody tunes that are great to stretch...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2014