Torsten Goods: Thank You Baby!

Roberto Di Gioia | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre | Torsten Goods | Wolfgang Haffner

Born to a German blues-musician father and Irish mother, 30-something Torsten Goods is still restlessly seeking out new directions for...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2015

MEB: That You Not Dare to Forget

Antoine Roney | Bernard Wright | Blu | DJ Arkitek | Emilio Modeste | Jeremy Pelt | John Scofield | Lenny White | Marcus Miller | Quintin Zoto

MEB (Miles Electric Band) holds out the promise of Miles Davis reimagined for a new generation, or, as the publicity...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2023

Harold López-Nussa: Un Día Cualquiera

Gaston Joya | Harold López-Nussa | Ruy Adrian López-Nussa

With all the uncertainty surrounding the relationship between the North and its Latin American neighbours, some musicians are offering their...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society: Rahsaan, Rahsaan

Alvern Bunn | Dick Griffin | Howard Johnson | James Madison | Joe Texidor | Leroy Jenkins | Roland Kirk | Ron Burton | Sonelius Smith | Vernon Martin

Like Dolphy, Kirk is one of the great multi-instrumentalists in jazz history. Unlike Dolphy, he is also one of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2014

Stan Getz: Quartet 1960

Ed Thigpen | Jan Johansson | Ray Brown | Stan Getz

Excerpts from three European concerts with a Norman Granz package (that also included Oscar Peterson and the Miles quintet with...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2016

Louis Armstrong: And His Friends

Louis' last album with saccharine strings and limp arrangements was a travesty, given his earlier contribution to jazz, and unless...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Birchall/Comyn/Fairhall/Perrett: Watergrove Part Two

Adam Fairhall | David Birchall | Francis Comyn | Michael Perrett

The single, half-hour performance on this digital album is entitled ‘We Might Be On The Edge Of A Moor Facing...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2021

Album Interview: Erik Truffaz Quartet: El Tiempo de la Revolución

Anna Aaron | Benoît Corboz | Erik Truffaz | Marc Erbetta | Marcello Giuliani

With over 15 Blue Notes now to his name, the French-Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz' discography has been as patchy as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Caetano Veloso and David Byrne: Live at Carnegie Hall

Caetano Veloso | David Byrne | Jacques Morelenbaum | Mauro Refosco

Recorded back in 2004 when Caetano Veloso curated a week-long series of concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall, the press...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2012

Michael Mantler: Coda – Orchestra Suites

Bjarne Roupe | Michael Mantler

Austrian trumpeter-composer Mantler makes music that can move from shadow to light in a moment. The mercurial moods of this...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021