Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra: Tales From The Jacquard

Claus Stötter | Gemma Moore | Gene Calderazzo | Harry Brown | Henry Lowther | Jason Yarde | Julian Siegel | Liam Noble | Mark Chillingworth | Mark Nightingale

Julian Siegel has been making difficult things sound natural on most kinds of reed instrument since the mid-1990s, and since...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2021

Kenny Wheeler: Gnu High

These two facsimile releases of original ECM vinyl, recorded in 1975 and 1979, announce the launch of Luminessence, ECM’s prestigious...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2023

Album Interview: Nat Birchall: Guiding Spirit

Adam Fairhall | Chris Manis | Gavin Barras | Gaz Hughes | Matthew Halsall | Nat Birchall | Rachael Gladwin

One of the albums that helped to put Manchester back on the jazz map last year was Matthew Halsall's Colour...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2010

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: Album Interview: All There, Ever Out

Alexander Hawkins | Dominic Lash | Hannah Marshall | Javier Carmona | Orphy Robinson | Otto Fischer

Just 30-years-old, Alexander Hawkins has already emerged as probably the preeminent UK avant-jazz keyboardist of his generation. In the trio...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2012

Album Interview: Christian McBride Big Band: Bringin' It

Brandee Younger | Brandon Lee | Carl Marachi | Christian McBride | Dan Pratt | Douglas Purviance | Frank Greene | Freddie Hendrix | James Burton | Joe McDonough

Christian McBride has an ebullient character – it bursts from his double-bass and it expands naturally to his writing and...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: October/2017

Adam Rudolph & Go: Organic Orchestra: Focus And Field

Adam Rudolph | Ivan Barenboim | Kaoru Watanabe | Michele Gentile | Ned Rothenberg | Sara Schoenbeck | Stephanie Griffin | Sumie Kaneko

Through sideman duties with legends such as Yusef Lateef and Don Cherry; as well as work as a bandleader in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Giovanni Guidi Trio: City of Broken Dreams

Giovanni Guidi | Joao Lobo | Thomas Morgan

Voted Best New Talent in 2007 by the Musica Jazz critic's poll, Giovanni Guidi previously appeared on Enrico Rava's ECM...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2013

Made To Break: Cherchez La Femme

Christof Kurzman | Devin Hoff | Ken Vandermark | Tim Daisy

Not for nothing is Ken Vandermark known as the hardest working man in avant-jazz. Each of these three lengthy compositions...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2014

Paragon: Cerca

Arthur Lea | Jon Scott | Matthias Nowak | Peter Ehwald

This ensemble recording, the second following Quarterlife Crisis released in 2009 by the quartet Paragon really hits its target. They're...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Antonio Sanchez and Migration: The Meridian Suite

Adam Rogers | Antonio Sanchez | John Escreet | Matt Brewer | Seamus Blake | Thana Alexa

It's big and brash and bold and balmy, pretentious, humourless and downright noisy: yet The Meridian Suite is just fab....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2015