Album Interview: The Two Minds Big Band: Dave O'Higgins and Peter Wraight
Well here’s a concept to tickle your imagination. O’Higgins and Wraight have known each other on and off for decades,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013
Tigran: Mockroot
You can't really put a label on what Tigran Hamasyan does. You can try, of course. You could certainly say...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2015
New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Complete Recordings 1922-1925
As a group of young white players who, in the 1920s, had decided to build their music around the example...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2019
The Roger Beaujolais Italian Trio: Barba Lunga
Alessandro Pivi | Giacomo Dominici | Roger Beaujolais
Vibes player Roger Beaujolais now has a long beard and celebrates the fact in the title of his new album...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2019
Fini Bearman: Porgy & Bess
Fini Bearman | John Blease | Jon Cox | Matt Calvert | Ross Stanley
Call it luck, call it happenstance, call it intuition, but just occasionally every element in a recording – the song...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015
Album Interview: Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio: Volume 2
Needless to say the predecessor was a big, big album, making Glasper the go-to jazzer for a new generation of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013
Album Interview: Dan Berglund's Tonbruket: Nubium Swimtrip
Andreas Weliin | Dan Berglund | Johan Lindström | Martin Hederos
For their third album on the award-winning ACT label, Tonbruket, the Swedish collective formed by ex-EST bassist Dan Berglund, take...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013
Jon Irabagon: Inaction Is Action
Jon Irabagon | Luis Perdomo | Rudy Royston | Tom Harrell | Yasushi Nakamura
If you are very good – like one of the greatest tenor saxophonists that ever lived – such as Coleman...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2015
Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels
Like the sinuous violin that links the movements of Rimsky-Korsakov's ‘Scheherazade Op. 35’, representing the voice of Scheherazade telling stories...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Album Interview: Colin Steele Quintet: Even in the Darkest Places
Calum Gourlay | Colin Steele | Dave Milligan | Michael Buckley | Stu Ritchie
The album title reflects a gruelling five-year period for Colin Steele following a series of events that revolved around him...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017
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