John Scofield: Past Present

Bill Stewart | Joe Lovano | John Scofield | Larry Grenadier

Art born from tragedy doesn't always cut it, no matter how sympathetic we may be to the artist's pain. Yet...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Jack DeJohnette: New Directions

Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette | John Abercrombie | Lester Bowie

Jack DeJohnette joined Manfred Eicher's ECM label in 1972 – at the end of his stint with Miles Davis' Bitches...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2019

Barney Wilen: Tilt

The French saxophonist, whose record debut was on the Roy Haynes set reviewed last month, was two months short of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2017

John Coltrane: Trane: The Atlantic Collection

Nine musically impeccable tracks by JC on Atlantic, but given that the vinyl price (at just over £20) is almost...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Humcrush with Sidsel Endresen: Ha!

Sidsel Endresen | Stale C | Thomas Strønen

This fourth album from Norway’s Humcrush further expands the improvisational language developed by Storløkken and Strønen: an odd, electro-acoustic patchwork...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2011

Trio HLK: Standard Time

Ant Law | Dame Evelyn Glennie | Rich Harrold | Richard Kass | Steve Lehman

Standard Time is coded language. The sources for five of the eight pieces on the British ensemble's Ubuntu records debut...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2018

Kandace Springs: The Women Who Raised Me

Clarence Penn | Kandace Springs | Scott Colley | Steve Cardenas

Following her critically acclaimed 2016 debut, Soul Eyes, and 2018’s Karriem Riggins-produced Indigo, the singer that Prince said possesses ‘a...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2020

Ravi & Anoushka Shankar: Live In Bangalore

Anoushka Shankar | Pirashanna Thevarajah | Ravi Shankar | Ravichandra Kular | Sanjay Sharma | Sanjeev Shankar | Tanboy Bose

This 2CD/1DVD package captures ‘Ravi Shankar's Farewell Indian Concert’ at the Bengaluru Palace Grounds in Bangalore, the capital city of...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: August/2018

Ibrahim Maalouf: La Vache

This is the French based Lebanese trumpeter's soundtrack to a new French comedy about an Algerian farmer in France and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Joe Farrell: Skate Board Park

Bob Magnusson | Chick Corea | Joe Farrell | Laurence Marable

When Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison left the John Coltrane quartet, the saxophonist who caught their ear was Chicago-born Joseph...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016