Stan Tracey: Three Classic Albums Plus

Restoring to circulation Tracey's earliest work under his own name, and subtitled Leader and Sideman, this will surprise anyone who...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2019

Emi Makabe: Anniversary

This haunting, folk-pop inspired singer-songwriter who also plays shamisen is a bit like a Japanese Sandy Denny and has sensitive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Paul Dunmall/Tony Bianco: Homage To John Coltrane

Paul Dunmall | Tony Bianco

Inevitably the choice of a horn-drums format for a tribute to Ohnedaruth makes Interstellar Space a key reference. Strong as...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2015

David Ake: Humanities

Ben Monder | David Ake | Drew Gress | Mark Ferber | Ralph Alessi

Ooh, I'm really feeling that guitar solo from Ben Monder on ‘Groundwork’! The rest of the group make themselves busy...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2018

David S. Ware & Matthew Shipp: Live in Sant'Anna Arresi, 2004

David S. Ware | Matthew Shipp

Outside of the David S. Ware Quartet, Ware and his trusty pianist Matthew Shipp played in duo formation on only...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

David Sancious and Tone: True Stories/Just As I Thought

Alex Ligertwood | Brenda Madison | David Sancious | Ernest Carter | Eve Otto | Gail Boggs | Gerald Carboy | Jeff Berlin | Kabir Ghani | T.M Stevens

The precociously talented Sancious is probably best known for his teen years in the early Springsteen bands; when he went...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2017

Doug Carn, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge: Doug Carn JID5

Adrian Younge | Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Doug Carn | Malachi Morehead | Shai Golan | Zach Ramacier

Producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of A Tribe Called Quest) have released some excellent albums in the past...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2021

Idris Muhammad: Turn This Mutha Out

Clifford Carter | Hiram Bullock | Idris Muhammad | Jeremy Steig | Michael Brecker | Wilbur Bascomb

This kind of ‘disco jazz funk’, as it's called in the booklet, would have no doubt served the argument that...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2015

Helen Humes: The Helen Humes Collection 1927-62

Another of Acrobat's welcome anthologies of singers who ought to be better remembered, this has everything one would expect from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

André Fernandes: Dream Keeper

Alex Tuomarila | André Fernandes | Demian Cabaud | Iago Fernandez | Perico Sambeat

This is an album of sophisticated contemporary jazz played by some of Europe’s leading jazz musicians. Perico Sambeat is highly...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2016