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

MoonMot: Going Down the Well

Cath Roberts | Dee Byrne | Johnny Hunter | Oli Fuster | Seth Bennett | Simon Petermann

Moonmot are a mischievous yet accomplished agglomeration of Swiss and Brit elements who play largely improvised music against strongly written...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2020

Art Pepper: Gettin' Together

Art Pepper | Ben Tucker | Bill Perkins | Conte Candoli | Jimmy Cobb | Jimmy Rowles | Mel Lewis | Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Wynton Kelly

This must be the umpteenth reissue of Pepper’s second summit with a Miles Davis’ 1960 rhythm section in recent years....

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2021

Sun Ra: Cosmos

In the wake of last month's mini-tsunami of Sun Ra reissues, here's yet more, in a tidy, rather formal set...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2017

Melt Yourself Down: 100% Yes

Adam Betts | George Crowley | Kush Gaya | Pete Wareham | Ruth Goller | Zands Duggan

Melt Yourself Down’s Last Evenings On Earth (2016) seemed to share the apocalyptic, transmuting themes of Shabaka Hutchings’ parallel work...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020