Consorts: Distinctions

Alex Ward | Angharad Davies | Bruno Guastalla | Chris Cundy | Dominic Lash | Douglas Benford | Hannah Marshall | Helen Papaiouannou | Marjolaine Charbin | Mark Langford

Bristol-based double bass player Dominic Lash has a been a steadfast and scholarly figure in the UK improvised music community...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2021

Weather Report: The Columbia Albums 1971-1975

Airto Moreira | Alex Acuna | Alphonse Mouzon | Alphonso Johnson | Don Um Romao | Eric Gravatt | Joe Zawinul | Leon ‘Ndugu’ Chancler | Miroslav Vitous | Wayne Shorter

Of all the groups that emerged fired up and ready-to-roll in the first golden dawn of early-1970s jazz-rock fusion Weather...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: October/2012

Vijay Iyer Sextet: Far From Over

Graham Haynes | Mark Shim | Stephan Crump | Steve Lehman | Tyshawn Sorey | Vijay Iyer

Far From Over arrests on so many levels that at times the energy and varying emotional pulses seem nearly uncontainable....

Reviewed by John Murph in issue: September/2017

Album Interview: Charles Lloyd: Wild Man Dance

Charles Lloyd | Gerald Clayton | Gerald Cleaver | Joe Sanders | Miklós Lukács | Sokratis Sinopoulos

We are in an age of ‘good’ and ‘very good’ jazz recordings, but paradoxically none that seem likely to be...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2015

Compass: Compass Rises

Al Colone | Joel Chace | Ken Parmele | Rick Lawn | Tom Ives

Rare or obscure, and fetching stratospheric prices among crate-diggers, has never been a guarantee of musical merit. However, I’m happy...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2022

Dominic Lash Quartet: Limulus

Alex Ward | Dominic Lash | Javier Carmona | Ricardo Tejero

Bristol-based double bass player Dominic Lash has a been a steadfast and scholarly figure in the UK improvised music community...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2021

Album Interview: Joshua Redman/Ron Miles/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Still Dreaming

Brian Blade | Joshua Redman | Ron Miles | Scott Colley

To my great chagrin I missed the band's much-lauded performance at Gateshead last year, but this is one of Joshua...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2018

Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: Warm Up: The Complete Live At The Highwayman 1965

Dave Green | Don Rendell | Ian Carr | Michael Garrick | Trevor Tomkins

A smiling Don Rendell gazes approvingly at a bearded Ian Carr, assiduously pressing the valve keys on his glistening flugelhorn...

Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: March/2023

Various Artists: Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions

Andre Previn | Art Tatum | Betty Roche/Dave Mathews V-Disc Night Owls/Jammers | Bob Haggart & His Boys | Bobby Hackett | Bud Freeman & His Boys; | Bunk Johnson Band | Bunny Briggs (dancer)/ Woody Herman V-Disc All-Stars | Clark Terry & His Section Eights | Connee Boswell V-Disc Play-Fellows

The American V-Disc programme – V standing for Victory – was a morale boosting initiative by the Music Section of...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025

Noah Preminger/Broken Shadows/Gregory Tardy/Bill Frisell/Billy Lester/Kenny Werner/Hank Roberts: Newvelle Records: Seaso

Adopting a unique marketing strategy, first put into effect in 2015, Newvelle Records, co-founded by Elan Mehler and Jean-Christophe Morisseau,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019