Jakob Bro: Uma Elmo

Arve Henriksen | Jakob Bro | Jorge Rossy

This album, composed by Danish guitarist Jakob Bro, is an antithesis to fidget culture. It resets listening, and exhumes a...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: March/2021

Ross McHenry: Nothing Remains Unchanged

Bassist Ross McHenry’s superb quartet line-up, featuring the likes of saxophonist Ben Wendel and drummer Eric Harland, delivers the goods...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Scott Hamilton Quartet: Danish Ballads… & More

Hans Backenroth | Jan Lundgren | Kristian Leth | Scott Hamilton

Having previously recorded an album for Stunt that concentrated on Swedish ballads, Hamilton now shifts his attention to 10 more...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019

Clark Terry/Bob Wilber: Blowin' The Blues Away

Billy Strayhorn | Bob Wilber | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Dick Wellstood | Duke Ellington | George Duvivier | Ozzie Bailey | Panama Francis | Wendell Marshall

The original album of this title was a single LP of Clark and Bob with Wilber's old sidekick Dick Wellstood...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Cecil Payne: Four Classic Albums

Baritone saxophonists don't get as much attention as they should, and this collection by Payne reminds us why the likes...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Atmosphères

Arve Henriksen | Eivind Aarset | Jan Bang | Tigran Hamasyan

Today, perhaps more than ever, when music is increasingly being commodified by the digital revolution, a jazz recording has to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2016

Brian Charette: Power from the Air

Brian Charette | Brian Fishler | Itai Kriss | Karel Ruzicka | Kenny Brooks | Mike DiRubbo

Brian Charette keeps you on your toes: last time he was on Steeplechase he was roogalating with a big band:...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2021

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Jeff Cosgrove: Live In Baltimore

Bobby Kapp | Brandon Lopez | Gerald Cleaver | Ivo Perelman | Jeff Cosgrove | Joe Hertenstein | Matthew Shipp | Nate Wooley | William Parker

Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Teddy Edwards/Howard McGhee: Together Again

This 1961 reunion of the men who really brought bop to the West is their best latterday get-together, immeasurably helped...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2012

Album Interview: Phronesis: Parallax

Anton Eger | Ivo Neame | Jasper Høiby

Ten years into their life as an increasingly tight-knit trio and it’s perhaps no surprise that Phronesis have named their...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: April/2016