Working Week: May 1985 (The Livelove Series Volume 3)
A great opportunity to savour a firing-on-all cylinders concert by what was always the best group that emerged from the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015
Wandering Monster
Aleks Podraza | Ben Powling | Calvin Travers | Sam Quintana | Tom Higham
This may be their debut album, but there's a maturity and generosity in each others' musical company that makes Wandering...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2019
Espen Berg Trio: Fjaere
This Norwegian pianist has been involved with significant figures on the local scene such as Marius Neset, and has also...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2022
SkyDive Trio: Sun Moee
Mats Eilertsen | Olavi Louhivuori | Thomas T Dahl
Did you ever meet someone at a party who was just so polite and inoffensive that you later had trouble...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2015
Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas (Fine Mixtures)
Antonio Adolfo | Claudio Spiewak | Jorge Helder | Leo Amuedo | Marcelo Martins | Rafael Barata
It had to happen eventually that someone would re-harmonise ‘Giant Steps’. The switch here is that, while retaining the melody,...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2013
Gary Peacock Trio: Now This
Gary Peacock | Joey Baron | Marc Copland
Released to coincide with Peacock's 80th birthday back in May, this makes a change from both his work with pianist...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2015
Henrik Jensen's Followed By Thirteen: Affinity
Esben Tjalve | Henrik Jensen | Pete Ibbetson | Rory Simmons
Affinity is the third album from Denmark-born London-based bassist Henrik Jensen and his quartet, Followed By Thirteen. It’s a pleasing...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: May/2020
Alan Broadbent Trio: Live At Giannelli Square Vol.2
Alan Broadbent | Kennedy Kay | Putter Smith
Best known perhaps as the pianist of Charlie Haden's Quartet West, Broadbent emerged from New Zealand to study at Berklee...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012
Chris Byars: Two Fives
Ari Roland | Chris Byars | John Mosca | Pasquale Grasso | Stefan Schatz | Stefano Daglioni
Not being on SteepleChase’s mailing list, I’d never heard of Chris Byars before, but apparently he’s already had six albums...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2016
Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is A Rare Thing
All of Ornette's classic Atlantic material has now been made available many times over but this reissued and repackaged collection...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2015
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