Stoop Quintet: Confession
Alex Munk | Dave Smyth | Flo Moore | Jonathan Brigg | Sam Miles
Threads Orchestra, one of Troyka bandmates Kit Downes’ and Chris Montague's tangled career branches, have close ties to the University...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2016
The Harvey O’Higgins Project: That’s the Way to Live!
Dave O’Higgins | Graham Harvey | Jeremy Brown | Josh Morrison
All is well with the world. Dave O’Higgins is back and swinging in partnership with old pals. Pandemics may come...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2021
Amanda Gardier: Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson
Amanda Gardier | Charlie Ballantine | Dave King | Jesse Wittman
Amanda Gardier, a young Baltimore-based alto saxophonist, won’t be a name familiar to most UK jazz listeners.But she steps out...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2024
Josephine Davies’ Satori: Weatherwards
Alcyona Mick | Dave Whitford | James Maddren | Josephine Davies
Following 2020’s Buddhism-themed How Can We Wake? this fourth album from Josephine Davies’ Satori takes the saxophonist back to her...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2024
Tori Freestone Trio: In the Chop House
Dave Manington | Tim Giles | Tori Freestone
Tori Freestone was a late starter on saxophone having spent her early youth playing violin in the folk clubs of...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014
Cloudmakers Trio: Abstract Forces
Dave Smith | Jim Hart | Michael Janisch
Jim Hart might best be known as one of the leading practitioners on the vibraphone in the UK, but with...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014
Erin McDougald: Outside The Soirée
Featuring a smoking hot band which includes Dave Liebman on soprano and tenor saxes plus Tom Harrell on trumpet and...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2018
Sax Appeal: Funkerdeen
Derek Nash has fingers in many pies. The hardworking producer, composer/arranger and multi-reedman fronts various groups and works with others,...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2014
Cloudmakers Five: Traveling Pulse
Antonin-Tri Hoang | Dave Smith | Hannes Riepler | Jim Hart | Michael Janisch
Jim Hart has been pushing at the boundaries of the art of jazz vibraphone since forming Cloudmakers in 2015, his...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018
Various Artists: Cosmic Forest: The Spiritual Sound Of MPS
A label with real kudos among collectors, Germany’s MPS peaked between the early and mid-1970s. The catalogue bulged with recordings...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
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