Masabumi Kikuchi: Wishes/Kochi
The recent unearthing of Miles Davis's 1970 Fillmore dates provided a thrilling glimpse of the birth of the gritty funk-jazz-rock...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2014
Kansas Smitty's: Things Happened Here
Alec Harper | Dave Archer | Ferg Ireland | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Pete Horsfall | Will Cleasby
Kansas Smitty's is a Hackney bar as well as a band, a musical utopia whose name was conjured from speakeasy...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2020
The Gascoyne O'Higgins Quartet: The Real Note Vol. 2
Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom
Following the satisfying Vol. 1 comes the understandably titled Vol. 2 of this band's exploration of ‘contrafacts’: new compositions built...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014
Linley Hamilton: Making Other Arrangements
Trumpeter Hamilton is a luminary of the Northern Ireland jazz scene: well-known as a broadcaster, teacher and jazz activist. He...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2018
Joe Farrell: Joe Farrell Quartet
Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Joe Farrell | John McLaughlin
Re-releases of rare bona fide jazz classics don’t come around too often, so when they do grab them. This album...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013
Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes
Bill Carbone | Charlie Kohlhase | Dave Ambrosio | Jared Sims | Matt Steckler | Terry Goss
Dead Cat Bounce, led by New York-based composer and reedsman Matt Steckler, has a cheeky, massed horn approach similar to...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2012
Dan Nicholls: Ruins
Dan Nicholls | Dave Smith | James Allsopp | Kit Downes | Shabaka Hutchings | Tom Challenger
Until fairly recently the Staffordshire-born Dan Nicholls was one of the least visible members of North London’s LOOP Collective. But...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013
Don Ellis: The Hindustani Jazz Orchestra Live at UCLA
Ellis had already been making a name for himself in jazz with albums like How Time Passes (1960) and New...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2022
The Gascoyne/O'Higgins Quartet: Got The Real Note
Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom
Of course you’ve got to check out the bright young things, but if ever there was a band to default...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013
Basquiat Strings: Part Two
I saw Basquiat Strings at Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion in 2008, not long after they were nominated for the...
Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: July/2013
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