Janne Mark: Kontinent

Arve Henriksen | Bjørn Heebøll | Eaben Eyermann | Henrik Gunde | Janne Mark | Nils Økland

Impressive in conception, deft in execution, this is highly creative Nordic contemporary music. Diverse conceptually yet thematically strong in construction,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2021

James Gilmore: Bag of Tricks Vol 2

James Gilmore, a guitarist from North Carolina, prescribes a musical recipe for chaos, one that sees his quartet navigate a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Aidan O’Rourke: Hotline

This Scottish fiddler-composer’s band for this atmospheric commissioned five-piece suite features excellent tenor saxophonist Phil Bancroft and Scottish harpist Catriona...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Gary Smulyan: Alternative Contrafacts

As the title references, the veteran baritone saxophonist's trio has an engaging way of uncovering previously forgotten contrafacts (the practice...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Jass

The inspirational Claudia Quintet drummer John Hollenbeck and the trombonist Samuel Blaser are the better-known names that make up this...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2014

Girls In Airports: Migration

Adam Nussbaum | George Kontrafouris | Jiannis Pavlidis

A young Danish quintet looks to middleeastern and African music as a base for their melody-driven jazz mix of originals....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Pete Canter's Sky Ensemble: Strange Bird

This is the Devon-based soprano saxophonist's pastoral jazz quartet plus one (cellist Lucy Welshman) performing originals that take folk song...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Max Nagl Trio: Moped

The Austrian saxophonist Nagl, a highly prolific recording artist, pays tribute to singer Henry Rollins with propulsive yet playful sax-keys-drum...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

Mal Waldron: Hard Talk

Allen Blairman | Isla Eckinger | Mal Waldron | Manfred Schoof | Steve Lacy

From the mid-period of his career, this reissue finds Waldron settled into his lengthy European sojourn, performing live at the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2014

Ben Crosland Quintet: The Ray Davies Songbook

Ben Crosland | Dave O’Higgins | John Etheridge | Sebastian de Krom | Steve Lodder

The only surprise is that nobody's done it before! There's barely a songwriter of the 1960s who hasn’t been pillaged,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2016