Various: Magic Moments 8 Sing Hallelujah

A comp selected from the recent Munich label catalogue on vocalists performing spirituals, blues and soulful tunes performed by artists...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

David S. Ware New Quartet: Theatre Garonne, 2008

David S. Ware | Joe Morris | Warren Smith | William Parker

Recorded in concert in France four years before his death, this disc finds Ware on stellar form, leading a band...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2020

Master Oogway: Earth & Other Worlds

If Terje Rypdal and Albert Ayler jammed with Cream it might give some idea of what this youthful Norwegian so-called...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Alan Pasqua: Twin Bill

Subtitled Two Piano Music of Bill Evans, this odd tribute by the New Jersey pianist, a regular collaborator of Peter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Markus Stockhausen/Fiorian Weber: Alba

Florian Weber | Markus Stockhausen

Stockhausen, the son of the pioneering electronics composer, has not released on ECM in a decade and a half. Weber,...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: June/2016

Pat Metheny: The Unity Sessions

Antonio Sanchez | Ben Williams | Chris Potter | Giulio Carmassi | Pat Metheny

If you already own the splendid DVD The Unity Sessions you may not rush to acquire what is essentially the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2016

Gerald Cleaver: Griots

Gerald Cleaver

Noted for his work with anybody from David S Ware to Craig Taborn to Tomasz Stańko, Gerald Cleaver has been...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2021

Benny Golson: Turning Point/Free

Early-1960s Golson in two quartets (the Miles rhythm section with Kelly/Chambers/Cobb is the better), showing more aggression and fire than...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Gil Scott-Heron: Small Talk At 125th And Lenox

Charlie Saunders | David Barnes | Eddie Knowles | Gil Scott-Heron

Amid Charles Stewart's lengthy sleeve notes it is easy to miss this declaration by the artist himself: “I am a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015

The Necks: Body

Chris Abraham | Lloyd Swanton | Tony Buck

Three decades-young Australian improv trio The Necks are often described as minimalists, but if they favour looping figures that change...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2018