Twelve: Years Ago

Darius Brubeck | Dave O'Higgins | Matt Ridley | Wesley Gibbens

The Donald Fagen-like Alex Ligertwood fronts a band that features Belgian pianist Éric Legnini and blends groove bop, chamber ensemble,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Adam Pache feat. Jeremy Pelt: Where You Fly

This Rome-based drummer swings brightly on an engaging session in which trumpeter Jeremy Pelt takes a central role. Influences range...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Dave Brubeck: At Newport 1956 and 1959

The classic quartet from 1959 with Dodge and Morello, plus the earlier band from 1956 on a complete carbon copy...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2012

Boi Akih: Circles in a Square Society

Monica Akihary and guitarist Niels Brouwer's sensuously cool contemporary take on hippy rock (Hendrix, Crosby, Mitchell) with jazz and African...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Muhal Richard Abrams: Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note Vol. 2

Amina Claudine Myers | Anthony Braxton | Anthony Davis | Dave Holland | Douglas Ewart | Henry Threadgill | John Blake | Leonard Jones | Leroy Jenkins | Malachi Favors

While a number of leading contemporary pianists, from Jason Moran to Craig Taborn and Vijay Iyer, are happy to cite...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2017

Hackney Colliery Band: Collaborations: Volume One

Bugge Wesseltoft, Pete Wareham and Mulatu Astatke are among the guests making their presence felt soloing with a decade-old East...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

Gerald Cleaver: Signs

Gerald Cleaver

Gerald Cleaver is best known as a drummer who's worked with free-jazz luminaries including William Parker and Matthew Shipp but,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2020

Tohru Aizawa: Tachibana Vol 1

Forceful post-bop played by four dazzlingly accomplished young Japanese musicians on their one and only album from 1975, (discovered and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Stefano Bollani: El Chakracanta

Stefano Bollani

This disc is a sumptuous widescreen showcase for Italian composer– pianist Stefano Bollani's considerable talents. Recorded at two live gigs...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2021

Steve Khan: Tightrope/The Blue Man/Arrows

Bob James | David Sanborn | David Spinozza | Don Grolnick | Errol Bennett | Jeff Mironov | Michael Brecker | Ralph MacDonald | Randy Brecker | Rick Marotta

A three-for-one package covering Khan's Columbia years and his debut recordings as a solo jazz-rock guitarist. But Khan was no...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2015