Perelman/Maneri/Roberts/Rothenberg: Strings 2

Hank Roberts | Ivo Perelman | Mat Maneri | Ned Rothenberg

Tenor saxophonist Perelman’s commitment to composing spontaneously and expanding his range of collaborators usually has a specific premise. These two...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

Tord Gustavsen Trio: Opening

Jarle Vespestad | Steinar Raknes | Tord Gustavsen

This latest trio offering from Tord Gustavsen, which welcomes bassist Steinar Raknes into the fold, vibrates between the introspective and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2022

Yazz Ahmed: Polyhymnia

Alcyona Mick | Alex Ridout | Becca Toft | Camilla George | Carol Jarvis | Charlie Pyne | Chloe Abbott | Corrina Silverster | Gemma Moore | George Crowley

A slow cook of a release, its roots deep in a 2015 concert piece commissioned by Tomorrow's Warriors with support...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2019

Chet Baker: Albert’s House

Barney Kessel | Chet Baker | Frank Capp | Jim Hughart | Paul Smith

When Chet Baker had his teeth punched out in 1968, it initially appeared that his trumpeting career might be over.Fitted...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2022

James Mainwaring: Mycorrhiza

Aby Vulliamy | Chris Sharkey | James Mainwaring | Michael Bardon | Steve Hanley

James Mainwaring, a saxophonist-composer best known as co-founder of the Leeds-based Mercury nominated Roller Trio, takes a more diversely experimental...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2021

John Surman: Westering Home

John Surman

Originally recorded for Chris Blackwell’s Island label in the early 1970s, this pair of albums from saxophonist John Surman saw...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: June/2016

Allison Neale: Quietly There

Seattle-born altoist Neale's light-touch style owes much to ] the influence of her chosen mentors, Art Pepper and Paul Desmond....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2015

John Stein: Lifeline

Alexandre Zamith | Daniel Grajew | Dave Hurst | Dave Zinno | David ‘Fathead’ Newman | Ed Lucie | Evan Harlan | Fernando Brandão | Frank Herzberg | Greg Conroy

We reviewed Kansas City guitarist Stein's Whaling City Serendipity CD favourably in our October 2021 issue, while admitting that his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2022

The Cookers: Time and Time Again

Billy Harper | Billy Hart | Cecil McBee | David Weiss | Donald Harrison | Eddie Henderson | George Cables

This really is the best working band anywhere at the moment. Six long-overlooked legendary jazz musicians (plus the underrated talent...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival

Dave Douglas | Joe Lovano | Joey Baron | Lawrence Fields | Lina Oh

There is something predictably unpredictable about each Joe Lovano album release, which is never to stand still in one place...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2015