Carmen McRae: Something Wonderful

A Columbia concept album from 1962, this saw McRae interpreting Broadway show songs with Buddy Bregman’s orchestra, augmented here by...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

Ranny Sinclair: Another Autumn

Dave Brubeck | Ranny Sinclair | Teo Macero

At a time when you can buy or stream practically all music ever recorded – no matter how impossibly rare...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2021

WorldService Project/Alfie Ryner: Match & Fuse

Colm O'Hara | Conor Chaplin | Dave Morecroft | Derek Whyte | Gerald Gimenez | Guillaume Gendre | Guillaume Pique | Loris Pertoldi | Matt Jacobson | Neil Blandford

Led by keyboardist Dave Morecroft, London-based quintet WorldService Project are engaged in an ambitious quest to connect with like-minded fellow...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2012

Hely: Borderland

Are we in a new age of new age music? It unfortunately seems so, with Ronin's Nik Bärtsch-produced Hely, a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Johannesson, Schultz and Berglund featuring Jacob Karlzon: Cause and Effect

Diane McLoughlin | Kit Massey | Paweł Grudzień | Tim Fairhall

Although there is an evocative retro feel, in that this music shimmers in time to the highly creative jazz and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2019

Zaid Nasser: The Stroller

Ari Roland | Keith Balla | Pasquale Grasso | Zaid Nasser

Now in his forties, Zaid Nasser is the son of Jamil Nasser, bassist on over a dozen albums by Ahmad...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2017

Grateful Dead: Road Trips, Vol. 4 No. 1

Bill Kreutzmann | Bob Weir | Jerry Garcia | Mickey Hart | Phil Lesh | Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan | Tom Constanten

After that nice Jim Morrison of The Doors infamously/allegedly exposed a little too much flesh in Miami, Florida's guardians of...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: June/2011

Kenny Graham and his Satellites: Moondog And Suncat Suites

Danny Moss | Don Lawson | Eddie Taylor | Ivor Slaney | Jack Ellory | Kenny Graham | Martin Slavin | Phil Seamen | Sammy Stokes | Stan Tracey

The haunting music of New York street musician Moondog (aka Louis Hardin) has recently enjoyed a deserved renaissance, mostly through...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: June/2010

Ken Vandermark & Terrie Ex: Scaffolding

Ken Vandermark | Terrie Ex

Terrie Ex – guitarist with Dutch anarcho punk originators The Ex – has harboured an abiding fascination with improvisation that's...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2019

Alexander Flood: The Space Between

Alexander Flood | aTunde Adjuah | Ben Kepron | Brion ‘Boogie BeeJay’ Scott | Christian Scott | Dylan Paul | Jack Strempel | Josh Chenoweth | Nelson Dialect | Nick Kepron

Alexander Flood is a much-lauded young Australian drummer and producer, whose debut album was released under the patronage of no...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2022