Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society: Mandatory Reality
Natural Information Society's fifth album since forming in 2010 – and its second double-album, following 2015's equally expansive Magnetoception –...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2019
Cedar Walton: The Bouncer
Cedar Walton | David Williams | Ray Mantilla | Steve Turré | Vincent Herring | Willie Jones III
It’s good to report that Walton, at 77 years old a jazz veteran if ever there was one, has produced...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2011
Pigfoot: 21st Century Acid Trad
Chris Batchelor | Liam Noble | Oren Marshall | Paul Clarvis
The album title looks like an ironic dig at those hastily invented sub-genres claiming to be the new way forward...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014
Tubby Hayes & Paul Gonsalves: Change Of Setting
It was hard for the reviewer to separate objectivity from nostalgia, since I had the mono LP long ago, before...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2016
Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade?
These guys have been bouncing ideas off one another for a while now, but with the successive releases of their...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: September/2017
Neil Ardley: A Symphony Of Amaranths
Sometimes a recording is special not for its content but for what it signifies. This welcome, long-awaited first CD release...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2013
Martin Speake/Colin Oxley: Two Not One
Since the 1990s alto saxophonist Martin Speake has explored puretoned cool school aesthetics through to more bluesy Ornette-infl uenced settings....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012
Josh Lawrence: Color Theory
Lawrence is an extremely able trumpeter and composer/arranger. He is an important sideman in Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band,...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2017
Wickihalder-Guy-Niggli: Beyond
Barry Guy | Jürg Wickihalder | Lucas Niggli
Using compositional form as a way to prise open space for improvisation is, of course, second nature to the British...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: June/2017
Kenny Barron/Buster Williams: The Complete Two As One
Buster Williams | Kenny Barron
These sessions, gathered together for the first time in this limited-edition (on vinyl at least) set, were recorded at the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2023
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