Art Farmer/Benny Golson: Complete Jazztet Sessions

Hard on the heels of Fresh Sound’s recent reissue of three Jazztet albums (reviewed July 2013) this excellent 4CD set...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

Fringe Magnetic: Clocca

Andrew Plummer | Ben Reynolds | Elisabeth Nygaard | Emilia Mårtensson | Ivo Neame | James Allsopp | Jasper Høiby | Kit Massey | Natalie Rozario | Robin Fincker

If, as reported, this CD is the swansong, the final third album from the Loop Collective and Jamie Cullum trumpeter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Stanley Clarke: UP

Alessandro Sgobbio | Emiliano Vernizzi | Nick Wright

The title says it all. Clarke's renaissance of recent years continues with this massively energetic journey through all that is...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2020

Martin Speake: Intention

Ethan Iverson | Fred Thomas | James Maddren | Martin Speake

I first came across the long-honed empathy of London alto saxophonist Martin Speake and the American pianist/composer Ethan Iverson in...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2018

Poogie Bell Band: Exhibition Continues

Calling Poogie Bell a top session drummer does him a big disservice, as his longstanding partnership with Marcus Miller attests....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2018

Sunn O))) & Ulver: Terrestrials

Daniel O'Sullivan | Greg Anderson | Jørn H Sværen | Kari Rønnekleiv | Kristoffer Rygg | Ole-Henrik Moe | Stephen O'Malley | Stig Espen Hundsnes | Tomas Pettersen | Tore Ylwizaker

It would seem Cthulhu now dreams in fusion. Evolved from grim origins, recent albums by these ghoulish envoys have channelled...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: May/2014

John Patitucci/Yotam Silberstein/Rogerio Boccato: Irmãos de Fé

John Patitucci | Rogerio Boccato | Yotam Silberstein

Bassist John Patitucci has long been among the instrument's elite ‘doublers’, distinguishing himself in particular on double bass in imperiously...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2017

Eddie Henderson: Mahal

Bennie Maupin | Bill Summers | Henderson | Herbie Hancock | Howard King | Hubert Laws | Julian Priester | Mtume | Paul Jackson | Ray Obiedo

As the disco funk strains of ‘Butterfly’ burst into life, it's not hard to imagine jazz aficionados, who had already...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2012

Mina Agossi: UrbAfrika

This vivacious French singer-songwriter is an underrated jazz-world original, here drawing on her Beninese family roots alongside Caribbean and chanson...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017

Hedvig Mollestad: Tempest Revisited

Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen | Ivar Loe Bjornstad | Karl Nyberg | Marte Eberson | Martin Myrhe Olsen | Per Oddvar Johansen | Peter Erik Vergeni | Trond Frosnes

Mollestad’s Trio, whose two shows brought the house down at the recent EFG London Jazz Festival, may have brought her...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022