Chucho Valdés: Tribute To Irakere: Live in Marciac

Ariel Bringuez | Carlos Sarduy | Chucho Valdés | Dreiser Durruthy Bombalé | Gaston Joya | Manuel Machado | Rafael Aguila | Reinaldo Melian | Rodney Barreto | Yaroldy Abreu Robles

Live recordings at the Marciac Jazz festival in southwest France are rapidly becoming a thing, especially with Cuban artists: a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2016

Ishmael Ensemble: Visions Of Light

Bethany M Roberts | Chris Hillier | Harry Stoneham | Holysseus Fly | Jake Spurgeon | Lydia Clews | Ned Pegler | Pete Cunningham | Rich Allen | Rory O'Gorman

Pete Cunningham's urban big band emerge from their Bristol habitat with a follow up to their highly acclaimed 2019 debut....

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: September/2021

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings

Art Blakey | Bobby Timmons | Jymie Merritt | Lee Morgan | Wayne Shorter

Recorded live at the Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo at the end of Blakey’s first ever tour of Japan, the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2021

James Taylor Quartet: Soundtrack From Electric Black

Andrew McKinney | Gareth Lockrane | James Taylor | Mark Cox | Pat Illingworth | Phil Todd | The English Session Orchestra | Tim Garland

James Taylor’s yearning for more than ‘Starsky and Hutch’ was realised with 2013’s The Rochester Mass, which brought Acid Jazz...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Feb/2019

dMu: Synaptic Self

Unleashing a determined, furiously dark, animalistic blast of metal-jazz improv are the trio dMu, featuring reedsman Josh Sinton, guitarist Alvaro...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Gordon Grdina Septet: Resist

Eyvind Kang | Gordon Grdina | Jesse Zubot | Jon Irabagon | Kenton Loewen | Peggy Lee | Tommy Babin

Strictly speaking, Resist should be reviewed alongside its sister release Safar-E-Daroon, by The Marrow, Grdina's more oud-centric, freer, groove-driven collective.Resist,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2020

The Heliosonic Tone-tette: Heliosonic Toneways Vol. 1

Danny Ray Thompson | Frank Lacy | JD Parran | Marshall Allen | Matt Wison | Pat O'Leary | Philip Harper | Scott Robinson | Yosvany Terry

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of Sun Ra’s HeliocentricWorlds albums that were released on ESP-Disk’ in 1965,...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Tia Fuller: Diamond Cut

Adam Rogers | Bill Stewart | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | James Genus | Sam Yahel | Terri Lyne Carrington | Tia Fuller

The inclusion of giants among men in the personnel for this fourth album by alto-saxophonist Fuller is newsworthy. But the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2018

Ideal Bread: Beating the Teens: Songs of Steve Lacy

A 2-CD set from a band led by baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton and devoted to the music of Steve Lacy,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Peter Erskine Trio/John Taylor/Palle Danielsson: As It Was

John Taylor | Palle Danielsson | Peter Erskine

The reissue's titling in the past tense (one of the trio's four albums collected here was originally called As It...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2016