Enrico Rava Quintet: Tribe

Enrico Rava | Fabrizio Sferra | Gabriele Evangelista | Giacomo Ancillotto | Gianluca Petrella | Giovanni Guidi

New decade, new band, new album. Only trombonist Gianluca Petrella remains from Rava’s previous quintet but these young guys revel...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: November/2011

Curtis Amy/Paul Bryant: Meetin’ Here

Classic tenor/organ jazz from Texas saxophonist Amy, and much underrated Hammond star Bryant, with bluesy bonus tracks from Groove Holmes...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Peter Bernstein: Signs Live!

Brad Mehldau | Christian McBride | Gregory Hutchinson | Peter Bernstein

The guitarist Peter Bernstein jokes in the sleeve notes that the new album Signs Live! was a late album launch...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Marc Mac presents Visioneers: Hipology

DJ Dopey | Duncan Fraser | Ian Richie | Jametta Rose | John Robinson | Luke Parkhouse | Marc Mac | Pete Williams | Rob Harvey | Simon Nixon

There was a time, many years ago, when jazz reluctantly relinquished its once unassailable position from being the popular music...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014

JD Allen: Radio Flyer

Gregg Austin | JD Allen | Liberty Ellman | Rudy Royston

JD takes another big step in his search for complete freedom. This time he arrived at the studio with seven...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2017

Teddy Wilson Trio with Jo Jones: Complete Studio Recordings

This is a complete clone of the 3CD set last out from Essential Jazz Classics of Wilson's fine trio recordings...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Charles Lloyd: Trios: Ocean

Anthony Wilson | Charles Lloyd | Gerald Clayton

The joy of Lloyd’s Trios project is that each of the three bands is an on-the-road working band; they’ve not...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2022

Linda Sharrock: (In) The Abyssity Of The Grounds – Gods

Didi Kern | Linda Sharrock | Margaret Unknown | Mario Rectern | Theresa Eipeldauer

Primarily recognised as the remarkable voice that accompanied her late husband Sonny Sharrock's electric guitar on such free jazz epics...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: May/2016

Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Conspiracy Nation

Arthur Doyle | Dave Cross | Ed Wilcox | Leslie Q | Tim Poland | Vinnie Paternostro

Best known for his 1977 LP Alabama Feeling, Doyle was the wild-man of second generation US free-jazz, with a raw,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2017

Satoko Fujii: Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams

Brandon Lopez | Chris Corsano | Ikue Mori | Ingrid Laubrock | Natsuki Tamura | Sara Schoenbeck | Satoko Fujii | Tom Rainey | Wadada Leo Smith

Astonishingly, Hyaku is Satoko Fujii's one hundredth album as a leader (she made her debut in 1996, with Something About...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2023