Blue Rondo A La Turk: Chewing the Fat

Art Collins | Chris Sullivan | Christos Tolera | Daniel White | Geraldo D'Arbilly | Kito Poncioni | Mark Reilly | Mike Lloyd Bynoe | Moses Mount Bassie | The Rondettes

Kevin Rowland called them ‘the coolest band on the planet’ – and in the early 1980s, London collective Blue Rondo...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2014

Sensaround: heart/noise

Protean experimentalist Raymond MacDonald is alternately smokily noir-ish and Evan Parker-like on this trio collab that's a gritty post-apocalyptic tapestry...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Armada: Beyond The Morning

Alan Wickett | Brian Stanley | Colin Ellar | Geoff Skates | John Donaldson | Sammy Rimington | Terry Cooke

Armada’s brief jazz-rock incarnation focused around the undoubted sax and writing skills of Sammy Rimington, who had already enjoyed a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2011

Shawn Glyde: The Pyramid Factor

The drummer Shawn Glyde leads a keys-led smoove fusion outfit specialising in undemanding jazz/pop-influenced grooves with consummate bass guitarists John...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Kali Z. Fasteau: An Alternate Universe

A respected veteran of the free jazz scene in the US, Fasteau leads the trio of bassist William Parker and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Ballrogg: Cabin Music

Ivar Grydeland | Klaus Ellerhusen Holm | Roger Arntzen

Ballrogg began life as a duo: somewhere between Paul Bley and Eric Dolphy, on the one hand, and Morton Feldman...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2012

Derrick Gardner & The Big Dig! Band: Still I Rise

Andrew Littleford | Anthony Bryson | Bijon Watson | Bill Green | Curtis Nowosad | Curtis Taylor | Derrick Gardner | Greg Gatien | Jeff Johnson | Joel Green

The brothers Gardner first came to notice with the Count Basie Orchestra in Frank Foster's time; these days trombonist Vincent...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2020

Thelonious Monk Orchestra: At Town Hall

Another outing for this celebrated1959 big band showing Monk and Hall Overton's brilliant attempt to transfer the music to larger...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

Chris Potter: Got the Keys to the Kingdom - Live at the Village Vanguard

Chris Potter | Craig Taborn | Marcus Gilmore | Scott Colley

There's no such thing as a cursory glance at Chris Potter's discography. Since the early 1990s, the multi-reeds virtuoso has...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2023

Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston: At Ad Libitum

Trevor Watts | Veryan Weston

The centrepiece of this live performance is a 22-minute improvisation called ‘The Unfinished Conversation’ – which is a pretty apt...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2015