Ant Law: Entanglement

Ant Law | James Maddren | John Turville | Michael Chillingworth | Tom Farmer

Law stares at you from the cover of his debut CD release with the kind of square-jawed intensity that personifies...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013

Wadada Leo Smith/Sabu Toyozumi: Burning Meditation

Sabu Toyozumi | Wadada Leo Smith

Smith has been a superlative duo partner over time – with Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown and Vijay Iyer among others–...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

Noah Haidu: Doctone

Noah Haidu

Haidu, a former Kenny Barron student, considers the late Kenny Kirkland – who died in 1998 aged only 43 –...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2020

Will Butterworth Quartet: The Nightingale and the Rose

Nick Pini | Pete Ibbetson | Seb Pipe | Will Butterworth

It's a dramatic and somewhat maudlin tale, is Oscar Wilde's short story ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’. The titular bird...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2017

Various Artists: Jazzmen Detroit

A welcome reappearance for this session from 1956 with the Detroit stars who had just arrived in New York, Pepper...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

Various Artists: Magic Moments 9: In the Spirit of Jazz

Another selection from the prominent Munich jazz label ACT's recent catalogue including tracks by Jan Lundgren, Paulo Fresu and Joachim...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Phineas Newborn Jr: A World of Piano!

Too flashy? Not grounded enough? This striking display from Newborn on top pianistic form in 1961 should dispel the doubters....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Joe Sample: Ashes To Ashes

Joe Sample

Sample's passing last year was another sad loss, making it all the harder to listen again to his music without...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2015

Brian Charette: Groovin' With Big G

Sinewy, old school Blue Note style Hammond B-3 quartet with ex-Miles' tenor giant George Coleman in robust, bluesy form on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Rempis/Parker/Flaten/Cunningham: Stringers And Struts

Dave Rempis | Hamid Drake | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten | Jeff Parker | Jeremy Cunningham

Jeff Parker is probably still best known for contributing guitar to the intricate, genre-hopping compositions of Chicagoan post-rock group Tortoise...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2021