Troyka: Ornithophobia
Chris Montague | Joshua Blackmore | Kit Downes
You could say the contemporary electric jazz trio Troyka has acquired a fourth member for their third album on the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015
Billy Childs: The Winds of Change
Ambrose Akinmusire | Billy Childs | Brian Blade | Scott Colley
The title track was originally written for Roy Hargrove and a large accompanying orchestra, but Childs' mission on this album...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2023
Marion Brown: Geechee Recollections/Sweet Earth Flying
A one time protégé of Archie Shepp, to whom he duly dedicated his Impulse! debut, Marion Brown was nonetheless an...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2012
Chiminyo: NRG1
Amané Suganami | Chiminyo | Clara Serra López | Luke Wynter | Temesgen Samuel | Yelfris Valdés
Chiminyo is the alter ego of drummer/percussionist/producer and man about town Tim Doyle – he's been involved in hip and...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: May/2023
Allan Holdsworth: Hard Hat Area
Twenty years on and Hard Hat Area gets a deserved re-mastering. Somewhere along the line ‘Prelude’ gets one second shorter...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2012
Marc Cary Focus Trio: Four Directions
Marc Cary | Rahsaan Carter | Sameer Gupta
Those with long memories will know that Cary has been one of the significant pianists to emerge from America in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2013
Bruno Heinen Trio: Out of Doors
Andrea Di Biase | Bruno Heinen | Gene Calderazzo
The eight albums by Bruno Heinen, the composer, improviser and Trinity Laban Conservatoire piano professor, have included variations on nursery...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020
Tony Kinsey: The Tony Kinsey Collection 1953-61
Here are drummer Kinsey's mid-twentieth century small group recordings spread over six rewarding CDs. 105 tracks in all, quartets and...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2013
Michael Garrick Sextet: Prelude to The Heart is a Lotus
Coleridge Goode | Don Rendell | Ian Carr | Jim Philip | Michael Garrick | Trevor Tomkins
This vinyl reissue makes a good epitaph to pianist-composer Michael Garrick, who died just two years ago at 78. Originally...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2013
Animation: Agemo
Bob Belden | DJ Logic | Guy Licata | Matt Garrison | Scott Kinsey | Tim Hagans
Got new headphones? No? Well don’t come back until you have. Agemo is a reworking of Asiento, itself a live...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2012
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