Southbound

Jack Davies | Jon Ormston | Rob Cope | Tom Taylor

This trio of releases from 26-year-old trumpeter-and-more Jack Davies constitute an impressive calling card. Davies won the Deutsche Bank award...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2012

Pee Wee Russell: New Groove/College Concert

The two albums that endeared Pee Wee to modernists in the 1960s: abstract, brilliant, unclassifiable jazz, in the pianoless quartet...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Lee Konitz: In Europe '56

This was a fertile period for Konitz – newly released tracks from Paris join four German sessions to show him...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Aaron Liddard: Nylon Man

Aaron Liddard | Carleen Anderson | Eric Young | Felipe Cortes | ft Giulia Marelli | Harry Greene | Jimmy Norden | Joan Viskant | Marc Parnell | Miss Baby Sol

“Jazz is the only living musical art-form that is not defined by its exclusions," says saxophonist-keyboardist-composer-arranger Aaron Liddard. “At its...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Mick Coady's Synergy: Nine Tales of the Pendulum

David Binney | Ivo Neame | Michael Buckley | Mick Coady | Sean Carpio

The Irish double bassist is something of an all-rounder, having studied at Berklee, had stints with such major European straightaheads...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Matthew Bourne: moogmemory

Matthew Bourne

We may know Matthew Bourne primarily as a pianist and composer, but his Radioland project also revealed his interest in...

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

Olivia Murphy: Moonrise

Becca Wilkins | Olivia Murphy | Olly Chalk

For those who only know Murphy from the big-souled sweep of her orchestra (watch out for the EP coming soon!),...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2022

Jeremy Steig & Eddie Gómez: Collectors Premium Jazz: Music for Flute & Double-Bass/Rain Forest

Eddie Gómez | Jack DeJohnette | Jeremy Steig | Karl Ratzer | Nana Vasconcelos | Nick Nock | Ray Barretto | Steve Gadd

Who invented jazz-rock? Come on, who's to blame? (Only kidding: we all love it really, don't we?) Might it have...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015

Steve Beresford & John Butcher: Old Paradise Airs

John Butcher | Steve Beresford

This duo by Steve Beresford and John Butcher was recorded at Iklectik, a thriving community arts space near Waterloo Station...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2020

Jared Gold: Golden Child

Ed, Cherry | Jared Gold | Quincy Davis

Most of Posi-Tone's recent releases have comprised what were probably leftovers from unissued 2009 sessions featuring mostly saxophone players that...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2012