Peter & Will Anderson: Clarinet Summit
Here's the Danish-owned SteepleChase label dipping into the current New York swing scene rather than pursuing its more usual hard-bop...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2017
Foxes Fox: Live at the Vortex
Evan Parker | John Edwards | Kenny Wheeler | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Steve Beresford
How many records merely hint at the kind of empathy and interplay heard here but leave the listener wondering like...
Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: July/2012
Houston Person: I'm Just A Lucky So And So
Eddie Allen | Houston Person | Kenny Washington | Lafayette Harris | Matthew Parish | Rodney Jones
Person, arguably the last of the big-toned tenors and now aged 84, has always been his own man. Self-managed and...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2019
Imperial Triumphant: Vile Luxury
Does black metal have a place in the progression of jazz music? In the case of New York experimental metal...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
Peter Erskine: Juni
John Taylor | Palle Danielsson | Peter Erskine
One of the most notable but relatively short-lived piano trios of the 1990s was an all-star British-Swedish-American affair. There were...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019
Dave Jones: Unfinished Sentences
British pianist Dave Jones recorded this album while studying for a master’s degree at Kingston University in 1999 (with the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2022
Camilla George Quartet: Isang
Camilla George | Daniel Casimir | Femi Koleoso | Sarah Tandy
British audiences will have noted George in a variety of settings, from the horn section of Jazz Jamaica to Nerija...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Jonny Mansfield: Elftet
This ambitious undertaking by 2018 Kenny Wheeler prize winner Jonny Mansfield, a percussionist who specialises in the vibes, marks the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019
Thomas Agergaard Quartet: Testing 1-2-3-4
Carsten Dahl | Lennart Ginman | Thomas Agergaard | Thomas Blachman
Agergaard is one of Denmark's top tenor saxophonists. He's been around the block and then some, and has refined what...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2020
JD Allen: Grace
David Pitch | Jay Bellerose | Kenny Banks Sr | Lizz Wright | Marvin Sewell
Another courageous step into the future by the tenor saxophonist, who is rapidly becoming one of the most eloquent and...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2017
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