Devin Gray: Dirigo Rataplan

The Brooklyn-based drummer's quartet features a few top dogs on the experimental downtown scene in Ellery Eskelin, Michael Formanek and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Timeline

In marking the 60th anniversary of their dad's momentous Cold War tour around the globe (the topic for a recent...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Food: This is Not a Miracle

Christian Fennesz | Iain Ballamy | Thomas Strøenen

Formed in 1998, the Anglo-Norwegian jazz electronica ensemble Food are one of the leading European exponents of post-clubland, experimental jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

The Elliott Henshaw Band: Who’d Have Guest?

Andrew McKinney | Bob Mintzer | Bryan Corbett | Chris Aldridge | Chris Traves | Dave Weckl | Elliott Henshaw | Fiona Asbury | Gwilym Simcock | James Pusey

‘Being heavily influenced by the likes of Dave Grusin, The Yellowjackets, Al Jarreau and David Sanborn,’ in-demand drummer and percussionist...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Corrie Dick: Sun Swells

Alice Zawadzki | Corrie Dick | Dave Malkin | Joe Webb | Joe Wright | Laura Jurd | Marianna Sangita | Matt Robinson | Rob Luft | Tom McCredie

Corrie Dick wears his prodigious rhythmic education lightly, having studied with Ghanaian master Sadiq Addy alongside mind-blowing times in Morocco,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Daniel Humair: Quatre Fois Trois

With a personnel line-up that surely can't fail to deliver including Dave Liebman, Marc Ducret, Joachim Kühn and Michel Portal,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Ballister: Worse for the Wear

Run for the hills: here comes Ballister featuring the established Chicagoan saxophonist Dave Rempis, cellist Fred Lonberg Holm and Norwegian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

The Button Band

Led by Bill Frisell-influenced, London-based guitarist-composer Andrew Button, The Button Band's melodious, easy-going debut draws from post-Loose Tubes world-jazz, country...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Hal McIntyre & His Orchestra: Sentimental Journey – The Singles Collection 1942-48

| Al Noble | Benny Norton | Billy May | Carl Denny | Dave Mathews | Frances Gaynor | Frankie Lester | Hal McIntyre | Jerry Stuart

Star alto-saxophonist McIntyre was a founder member of the popular Glenn Miller band and did well. So much so, that...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2022

Miles Davis: Live In Paris

André ‘Déde’ Ceccarelli | Enrico Pieranunzi | Hein Van De Geyn | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Sonny Stitt | Stan Getz | Wynton Kelly

It's lately been open season on tapes from Miles' first European tours, featuring Coltrane and then Stitt. You'll recall The...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2014