Twin Talk: Weave

A very likeable Chicagoan trio featuring bassist-singer Katie Ernst, who has worked previously with Jason Moran, delivering a stripped-down and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Stephan Crump/Steve Lehman: Kaleidoscope &Collage

Stephan Crump | Steve Lehman

While sax and drum duos have enjoyed occasional prominence over the years, sax and bass remains a rarer combination. Perhaps...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: June/2011

Rudy Royston: Flatbed Buggy

The Bill Frisell drummer steps up for his third recording as leader, stirring up memories of his rural background with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Anders Jormin: Ad Lucem

Anders Jormin | Erika Angell | Fredrik Ljungkvist | Jon Fält | Miriam Wallentin

This album combines two thirds of the Bobo Stenson Trio (Jormin and Fält) with the elegant voices of Wallentin and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2012

Bud Shank & Chet Baker: Michelle/California Dreamin’

Among the many great records left by the late Bud Shank, and though they were hits in their day, these...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2016

Tyson Naylor Trio: Kosnauten

An interesting-sounding contemporary Canadian piano trio with an equal preference for traditional melody, groove and rhythmically abstract textures....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Ben Holmes Quartet: Anvil of the Lord

A Brooklyn-based trumpeter who favours Balkan and klezmer melodies in a quartet in which trombonist Curtis Hasselbring is always in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

B/Y Organism: The New Beginning

The debut from a young Czech ensemble, fronted by keyboardist Daniel Bulatkin and guitarist Kirill Yakovlev, lacks a little focus...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2021

Kilk Knuffke: Little Cross

On the underestimated Danish Steeplechase label, the New York- based cornetist Kirk Knuffke's ace trio of Hammond B-3er Jamie Saft...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2016

Ben Allison/Steve Cardenas/Ted Nash: Quiet Revolution

A New York-based trio’s tribute to a couple of jazz heroes, Jim Hall and Jimmy Guiffre, includes the latter’s ‘The...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019