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

Buddy Tate: Swingville Sessions

Three albums on two CDs show off Buddy at the height of his powers, with his bluff Texas tenor commanding...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Jakob Bro: Streams

Chris Jennings | Illya Amar | John Hadfield | Nguyên Lê

Another instalment of majestically ventilated minimalism courtesy of this wonderful Danish guitarist's trio. While their previous album on ECM –...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: April/2019

ELF: Reflections

Alex Sipiagin | Conrad Herwig | David Kikoski | Igor Butman | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Kenny Davis

Yorkshire-born horn virtuoso Dave Lee is a prominent member of the Michael Nyman Band, as well as having performed at...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2016

Quinsin Nachoff: Flux

David Binney | Kenny Wollesen | Matt Mitchell | Quinsin Nachoff

Avant-garde tenorist Nachoff comes from Toronto, Canada. He is equally at home with jazz and contemporary classical music and his...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2016