Jacob Young/ Mats Eilertsen/Audun Kleive: Eventually
Audun Kleive | Jacob Young | Mats Eilertsen
Not all jazz recordings have to be at 700mph, or be out to impress, or act as a musical visiting...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2023
Nitai Hershkovits: Call On The Old Wise
This album, from late 2023, is a gem. Hershkovits, a sideman for Oded Tzur and Avishai Cohen and noted for...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: February/2024
Soft Machine: Hovikodden 1971
Elton Dean | Hugh Hopper | Mike Ratledge | Robert Wyatt
Stone me… sometimes you have to side with Emperor Joseph II: “Too many notes, Mr Softs, too many notes…” It...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2024
Adam Bałdych Quartet: Sacrum Profanum
Adam Bałdych | Dawid Fortuna | Krzysztof Dys | Michael Barański
This is Bałdychs sixth album for ACT, and his first for the label with his fellow Polish musicians. Reflecting his...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2019
Onyx Brass: Onyx Noir
Alan Thomas | Amos Miller | Andrew Sutton | David Gordon-Shute | Niall Keatley
Compared to the kind of all-brass groups pumping out rasping brass onslaughts and crowd-pleasing old-time grooves, Onyx Brass is a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2018
Mysteries of the Revolution: Longing for the Dawn
Andy Alexander | BB Davis | Dan Biro | Don Stuart | Jeff Parker | Vincenzo Lamagna
Spectacularly on the rock end of the jazz-rock spectrum, this is essentially a duo album driven by Biro’s virtuosic keys...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2022
Maya Homburger/Barry Guy: Tales of Enchantment
On this duo recording, the versatile bassist-composer Barry Guy, and the Baroque violinist Maya Homburger lay down their unique interpretations...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Skyline
Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Jack DeJohnette | Ron Carter
It’s over 30 years since Rubalcaba emerged from Cuba to play at festivals in Montreal and Montreux, and eventually to...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2021
STUFF: Old Dreams New Planets
Andrew Claes | Dreis Laheye | Joris Caluwaerts | Lander Gyselinck | Mixmonster Menno
Belgium is a vibrant crossroads country, the double-nature of its improbable yet somehow ongoing Flemish-Walloon equilibrium seeming to encourage jazz...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2018
Kendrick Scott Oracle: We Are The Drum
Joe Sanders | John Ellis | Kendrick Scott | Lizz Wright | Mike Moreno | Taylor Eigisti
If good sidemen affect the music of leaders then the converse may also hold true. In some ways this enjoyable...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
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