Louis Sclavis Quartet: Silk and Salt Melodies

Benjamin Moussay | Gilles Coronado | Keyvan Chemirani | Louis Sclavis

French clarinettist/composer Louis Sclavis is now into double figures with his projects for ECM. His new group features the same...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2014

Joe Farrell: Penny Arcade/Upon This Rock/Canned Funk

Don Alias | Herb Bushier | Herbie Hancock | Jim Madison | Joe Beck | Joe Farrell | Ray Mantilla | Steve Gadd

When Corea replaced Joe Farrell in Return to Forever with Bill Connors’ rock-angled guitar, it changed not only jazz (fusion)...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Joe Lovano Us Five: Cross Culture

Esperanza Spalding | Francisco Mela | James Weidman | Joe Lovano | Lionel Loueke | Otis Brown | Peter Slavov

Lovano moves ever onward and upward, in terms of both commercial credibility and artistic maturity, and this third recorded outing...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2013

Andy Bey: Experience And Judgment

Any Bey | Bill Fischer | George Davis | Ira ‘Buddy’ Williams | Jimmy Young | Richard Resnicoff | Slewart Clark | Wilbur Bascomb

A recent reissue (reviewed on p50) of Max Roach's 1968 masterpiece Members, Don’t Git Wearyprovided a welcome opportunity to hear...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2022

Emily Francis Trio: Luma

Emily Francis | Jamie Murray | Trevor Boxall

It’s been a while since the Emily Francis Trio’s debut The Absent (2015), and Luma’s leap forward illustrates the ever-morphing...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2022

Centipede: Septober Energy

Alan Skidmore | Boz Burrell | Brian Belshaw | Brian Godding | Brian Smith | Dave Markee | Dave Perrottet | David Amis | David White | Dudu Pukwana

Centipede are more the stuff of legend than stuff of substance, given they only released one album and played barely...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2022

Wali And The Afro Caravan: Home Lost And Found (The Natural Sound)

J. Murray | Ray Lewis | Robert Moore | Ronald Nance | Wali King

When 22-year old percussionist Wali King formed his ethnic jazz troupe, the Afro Caravan, in Austin, Texas in the mid-1960s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2014

Kyle Eastwood: Cinematic

Andrew McCormack | Brandon Allen | Camille Bertailt | Chris Higginbottom | Hugh Coltman | Kyle Eastwood | Quentin Collins | Stefano di Batista

You could say that the seed for Cinematic was sown in Kyle Eastwood’s 2017 album, In Transit, which featured an...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2020

Klaus Paier & Asja Valcic: Vision For Two – 10 Years

A haunting recording on the whole, this simpatico duo – an accordionist and cellist – release a fifth album together...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Esa Helasvuo: Stella Nova

Esa Helasvuo

Esa Helasvuo has been a presence on the more experimental fringes of the Finnish jazz scene since the 1960s. His...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2013