Jim Blomfield Trio: Wave Forms and Sea Changes

Jim Blomfield | Mark Whitlam | Roshan ‘Tosh’ Wijetunge

The pianist Jim Blomfield has been a fixture on the creative music scene in Bristol since 1991, and has also...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Stanley Cowell: Juneteenth

Stanley Cowell

Following two fine recent albums for Steeplechase, the veteran pianist returns with a solo offering on the solemn matter of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015

Michael Formanek: Small Places

Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver | Michael Formanek | Tim Berne

How much more ECM can you get? Not only is bassist/composer Michael Formanek an ECM artist but so are altoist...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Esperanza Spalding: Exposure

Esperanza Spalding | Justin Tyson | Lalah Hathaway | Matthew Stevens | Ray Angry | Robert Glasper | Starr Busby | Tivona Miller

Conceived as an experiment to kick-start creativity, Exposure is pleasingly free of novelty value. Written, performed, recorded and mixed in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2018

Tonbruket: Masters of Fog

Andreas Werliin | Dan Berglund | Johan Lindström | Martin Hederos

Bassist Dan Berglund takes five from recently formed supergroup RYMDEN to record his post-jazz Swedish power quartet Tonbruket's sixth studio...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Andy Laverne: Faith

Alex Sipiagin | Andy Laverne | Jason Tiemann | Mike Richmond

Pianist-composer Laverne's main claim to fame seems to have been a lengthy spell (along with friend and bassist Mike Richmond)...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2018

Lars Danielsson: Liberetto

Arve Hendriksen | John Parricelli | Lars Danielsson | Magnus Öström | Tigran

Recent Lars Danielsson projects (Tarantella, Pasodoble) have featured the fine Polish pianist Leszek Mozdzer. On this new recording, however, the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2012

Dayna Stephens: Gratitude

“Hey, here's an idea: let's play that great number of yours on an old, out-of-tune tack piano!” If you were...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2019

Jaimie Branch: FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise

Ben LaMar Gay | Ben Lamar Gay | Chad Taylor | Dan Bitney | Jaimie Branch | Jason Ajemian | Lester St Louis | Marvin Tate | Matt Schneider | Scott McNiece

Fly Or Die, the debut album from trumpeter Jaimie Branch, popped up on numerous best of the year lists in...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: November/2019

Elina Duni Quartet: Dallëndyshe

Colin Vallon | Elina Duni | Norbert Pfammatter | Patrice Moret

I don't know much about Albanian jazz. But perhaps that doesn't matter much in the case of Elina Duni's Dallëndyshe...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2015