Per–Oscar Nilsson Group: Now!
The young Swedish guitarist's debut recording mixes balladry and a whisper of Afro-Cuban rhythm into an all-original mix of interlocking...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2012
The Pucciarelli Group: Uplift
Aldo Capasso | Ergio Valente | Giusseppe Pucciarelli | Marco Gagliano
Italian guitarist Giuseppe Pucciarelli is a name unfamiliar to me up until now, and on the evidence of Uplift, his...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2022
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Sweet Sister Suite
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra mastermind Tommy Smith commissioned this Kenny Wheeler suite of ruefully lyrical themes from the late great...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2018
Nucleus & Ian Carr: Torrid Zone: The Vertigo Recordings 1970-1975
This is a mammoth effort, with all nine Nucleus albums from their Vertigo days squeezed onto a 6CD set, capturing...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2019
Geoff Eales: Transience
Brigitte Beraha | Chris Laurence | Geoff Eales | Martin France | Noel Langley
Brigitte Beraha's Babelfish project was responsible for one of my favourite releases of last year, the lovely Chasing Rainbows. So...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2016
Mathias Eick: Midwest
Gjermund Larsen | Helge Norbakken | Jon Balke | Mathias Eick | Mats Eilertsen
This is the third album on ECM by the 30-year-old Norwegian trumpeter following 2011's Skala and the 2007 debut The...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015
David Amram/Eric Mingus/Larry Simon/Groove Bacteria: Langston Hughes: The Dreamkeeper
A dazzling highlight of the 2015 London jazz festival, Ron McCurdy's Ask Your Mama was a timely reminder of the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2017
Tyler Mitchell Octet: Sun Ra's Journey featuring Marshall Allen
Bassist Tyler Mitchell was a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra in the mid-1980s and has been a key player in...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2023
Abbey Lincoln: Straightahead
This is one of the great political and cultural statements made by African-Americans during the civil rights era. Apart from...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012
The Trio: Incantation: The Dawn Recordings 1970-1971
John Surman was in his headlong 20s when these sessions were recorded by the collective threesome known simply as The...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2018
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