Nostalgia 77 and the Monster: The Taxidermist

Fulvio Sigurta | James Allsopp | Matthew Bourne | Riaan Vosloo | Ross Stanley | Tim Giles

He's not on the personnel sheet but Ben Lamdin is the lynchpin, the guy who steers the good-vibe ship that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

David Linx: Be My Guest: The Duos Project

David Linx | Gustavo Beytelmann | Magic Malik | Nguyên Lê | Ran Blake | Theo Bleckmann | Tigran Hamasyan

By turns visceral, touching, transporting and illuminating, this set of 15 duets featuring the Brussels-born, Paris-based vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Brian Krock: Liddle

You might hear echoes of Tim Berne (whose pianist Matt Mitchell makes a noteworthy appearance here), Steve Coleman and Henry...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

Bill Laurance: Aftersun

Bill Laurance | Michael League | Robert ‘Sput’ Searight | Weedie Braimah

The hypnotic nature of dance music is something keyboardist/composer Bill Laurance has explored on his two previous albums, Flint and...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: February/2016

Michael Landau: Liquid Quartet Live

Michael Landau

Such is Landau's reputation as an A-list side and I session man, it's easy to overlook that he's an old...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2020

Joey DeFrancesco + The People: Project Freedom

Dan Wilson | Jason Brown | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Troy Roberts

We don't know when this album was recorded, but it's hard not to hear it as something of a counter-call...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: April/2017

Black Top Presents: Hamid Drake/Elaine Mitchener/William Parker/Orphy Robinson/Pat Thomas: Some Good News

Elaine Mitchener | Hamid Drake | Orphy Robinson | Pat Thomas | William Parker

Heavyweight UK improvisers Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas conceived Black Top in 2011 as an open-ended duo augmented by a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Brigitte Beraha and John Turville: Red Skies

Bobby Wellins | Brigitte Beraha | John Turville

Sometimes it's the quieter, more intimate albums that really lodge in the memory, and so it proves with Red Skies....

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2013

Gary Bartz NTU Troop: Live in Bremen 1975

Gary Bennett

Gary Bartz began his career by jamming with Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan and Pharoah Sanders, moved up a step in...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021

Mina Agossi: Fresh

Eric Jacot | Mina Agossi | Phil Reptil | Simon Bernier | Stéphane Guery

Purely in terms of its textural palette, Fresh sees vocalist Mina Agossi's sound-world expanding into adventurous new territories. For many...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2014