Rigmor Gustafsson: When You Make Me Smile

Jonas Holgersson | Jonas Östholm | Martin Höper | Rigmor Gustafsson

Fans of Swedish vocalist Rigmor Gustafsson will know that she seeks out unique musical situations for her recordings: think of...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2014

John Coltrane: Four Classic Albums

You could hardly go wrong compiling any non-Prestige Coltrane and calling it Four Classic Albums. Here, if the personnel details...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Rajeev Taranath: Swar-Kalyan

Abhiman Kausal | Rajeev Taranath

Rajeev Taranath is a senior disciple of the school or style of playing to which the sarodist Ali Akbar Khan...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: July/2012

Trio Riot

David Meier | Mette Rasmussen | Sam Andreae

If ever a genre tag has been misused and abused over the last decade or so, it's ‘punk-jazz’. Often, it's...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2014

Trilok Gurtu: One Thought Away

Carlo Cantini | Devik Pandit | Ferdinand Forsch | James Hallawell | Robert Miles | Sabine Kabongo | Trilok Gurtu

The 71-year-old master drummer- percussionist Trilok Gurtu virtually stole the show playing with the Jan Garbarek Quartet at last year's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2023

The Gary McFarland Legacy Ensemble: Circulation: The Music of Gary McFarland

Bruce Barth | Joe Locke | Michael Benedict | Mike Lawrence | Sharel Cassidy

When composer, arranger, singer and vibraphonist Gary McFarland died in 1971 he was 38 and contemplating a career writing and...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2015

Benjamin Koppel/Joe Lovano: The Mezzo Sax Encounter

Benjamin Koppel | Joe Lovano | Jonathan Blake | Kenny Werner | Scott Colley

Pitched midway between the soprano and alto, the mezzo sax combines the tonal qualities of both. It adds the alto's...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home

HBR Studio Symphony Orchestra | Jimmy Scott | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Kenny Barron | Michael Valerio | Peter Erskine

Recorded in 2009 just five years before his death, its creation the subject of a documentary of the same name,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017

Espen Eriksen Trio ft Andy Sheppard: In the Mountains

Andreas Bye | Andy Sheppard | Espen Eriksen | Lars Tormod

Eriksen followed pianists Tord Gustavsen and Helge Lien into Silje Nergaard’s band. One of Scandinavia’s top jazz singers, she is...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2022

Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufield: Never Were The Way She Was

Colin Stetson | Sarah Neufield

With his New History Warfare trilogy, released between 2007 and 2013, saxophonist Colin Stetson more or less established himself as...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2015