Avishai Cohen Trio: From Darkness

Avishai Cohen | Daniel Dor | Nitai Hershkovitts

The tried and tested axiom of ‘new players, new life’ or rather ‘younger players, greater energy’ acquires much credence here....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2015

Jan Garbarek/Kjell Johnsen: Aftenland

Jan Garbarek | Kjell Johnsen

Both these albums capture the subtleties of tonal inflection, timbral nuance and majestic expressivity of Garbarek’s saxophones in a demanding...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019

Bob Bralove/Henry Kaiser/Chris Muir: Positively Space Music

Bob Bralove | Chris Muir | Henry Kaiser

As practised by the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine or String Cheese Incident (other brands are available), psychedelic or...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: July/2017

The Buck Clayton Legacy Band: Claytonia

Adrian Fry | Alan Barnes | Alyn Shipton | Ian Smith | Martin Litton | Martin Wheatley | Matthias Seuffert | Menno Daams | Norman Emberson

The Buck Clayton Legacy Band came into being back in 2004 to serve the memory of the celebrated trumpeter, who...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2013

Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolutions: Won't Put No Flag Out

Daniel Erdmann | Jim Hart | Theo Ceccaldi

A French-based chamber trio led by Das Kapital - saxophonist Daniel Erdmann and featuring ex-London based LOOP Collective vibraphonist Jim...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Terje Isungset and Arve Henriksen: World of Glass

Arve Henriksen | Terje Isungset

We think of glass as something we see, or rather see through, but anyone who has rubbed a finger along...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2015

Joe McPhee & John Snyder: To Be Continued

Albert Henderson | Charlie McPhee | Eddie Saunders | Ernie Vaughn | Freddie Johnson | Jerry Jones | Joe McPhee | John Snyder | Michael Driver | Norman Moore

Massaging the connection that would yield such enchanted fruits on the wonderful Pieces Of Light the following year, comes this...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: May/2015

The Shithole Country & Boogie Band

Don’t let the name put you off: The Thing saxophonist Mats Gustafsson is mostly in a surprisingly chilled mood alongside...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

Bud Shank: Quintet and Sextet

Early–1960s collaborations between Shank and trumpeter Carmell Jones including some fine playing and some fine extended soloing from Shank, mainly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Jim Hall: It's Nice To Be With You

Hall, Humair and Woode make a fine trio, recorded in Berlin, and this catches Hall in 1969 just as he...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015