Bill Frisell: Guitar In The Space Age
Bill Frisell | Greg Leisz | Kenny Wollesen | Tony Scherr
The title says it all: that retro rocketeer Frisell has whizzed together songs that summon the spirit of adventure that...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
Oz Noy: Asian Twistz
Dave Weckl | Étienne Mbappé | Oz Noy
Noy, excuse the pun, is most annoying. There's so much to enjoy about this live album. There's a rawness to...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2015
Sunna Gunnlaugs: Cielito Lindo
Porgrimur Jonsson | Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs
If your idea of Icelandic music goes no further than Björk then it's time to think again. The impressive pianist...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015
Mr Noe: Live at Giardino Scotto
There's something intriguing happening immediately on this live record from septet Mr Noe: moody, chamber jazz plods along, which somebody–or...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: July/2023
Emile Parisien: Let Them Cook
Emile Parisien | Ivan Gélugne | Julien Loutelier | Julien Touéry
The misty, mysterioso atmosphere with which this album starts says much about the Emile Parisien quartet’s evocative ability. A similar...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Allen Ginsberg: Allen Ginsberg Reads Howl And Other Poems
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets...
Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2018
John Coltrane: European Tour 1961 featuring Eric Dolphy
Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Reggie Workman
Although Eric Dolphy had been friendly with Coltrane in Los Angeles since the 1950s, it was not until a cross...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2017
Album Interview: Gwyneth Herbert: The Sea Cabinet
Al Cherry | Fiona Bevan | Gwyneth Herbert | Sam Burgess
Album number six from Gwyn Herbert is so chock full of delights that you're reaching for the repeat button even...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2013
Paul Desmond: Glad to be Unhappy
Connie Kay | Gene Cherico | Gene Wright | Jim Hall | Paul Desmond
Today, for the majority of younger jazz fans/jazz students/musicians, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond is gone (he died in 1977) and...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017
Clark Tracey: Meantime…
Chris Maddock | Clark Tracey | Daniel Casimir | Harry Bolt | Henry Armburg Jennings
This quintet is one of the liveliest and most creative groups of young musicians that Clark Tracey has led. The...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014
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