BNNT: Multiverse

Ivo Neame | Jim Hart

This combustible post-Krautrock Polish trio have Norway’s The Thing sax colossus Mats Gustafsson as guest on their mix of pounding...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Album Interview: Delta Saxophone Quartet With Gwilym Simcock: Crimson!

Chris Caldwell | Graeme Blevins | Gwilym Simcock | Pete Whyman | Tim Holmes

Simcock and the Delta Saxophone Quartet are not the first (nor will they be the last) jazzers to reimagine the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2016

Terri Lyne Carrington: New Standards Vol. 1

Ambrose Akinmusire | Anabel Gil Diaz | Dianne Reeves | Edmar Colon | Elena Pinderhughes | Julian Lage | Kris Davis | Linda May Han Oh | Matthew Stevens | Melanie Charles

One of the fascinations of listening to new jazz recordings comes when a spotlight is turned on artists and tunes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2022

Kepa Junkera: Ultramarinos & Coloniales

The inspiration for this dull disc by Latin Grammy winning accordionist/songwriter comes from Basque accordion music and Bilbao street life...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012

In Common: Walter Smith III, Matthew Stevens, Joel Ross, Harish Raghavan and Marcus Gilmore

Harish Raghavan | Joel Ross | Marcus Gilmore | Matthew Stevens | Walter Smith III

Saxophonist Walter Smith III’s evocative low-lights tenor sound and drily quixotic irregularities of phrasing have already graced a fine album...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet: Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead (Jazz Poetry Superjam #1)

Bobby Wellins | Jeff Clyne | John Mumford | Laurie Morgan | Michael Horovitz | Pete Brown | Stan Tracey

This recently discovered live recording from a Southampton University gig in March 1962 is irrefutable proof positive of what a...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: July/2013

Count Basie: Basie Plays Hefti

As with much on this label, this is a complete clone of a previous Essential Jazz Albums reissue, formerly out...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2013

Modern Jazz Quartet: Original Album Series Pyramid/Third Stream Music/The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra/Lonely Woman/T

Connie Kay | Gunther Schuller | Jimmy Giuffre 3 | John Lewis | Milt Jackson | Percy Heath

What was once the rhythm section that drove Dizzy's original barnstorming bebop Big Band, moved on to become the Milt...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2013

Ryan Meagher: Tone

This New York-based guitarist-composer draws on pastoral indie guitar rock as well as post-bop for a quintet that includes Kneebody's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Dr John: Big Band Voodoo

Dr John Mac Rebennack | WDR Big Band

Everyone should have a little Dr John in their lives, and this recording with a full-blooded big band, not a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2020