Cong Fusion: The World as We Know It
Alan Shorty | Andrew Seeman | Flo Moor | Joe Malone | Rowan Porteous | Ryan McCafferey | Tom Ridout
If you’ve heard Flo Moor sneaking round the complexities of an Allan Holdsworth song in an easesome style, or replicating...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2022
Vein: Vote for Vein
Florian Arbenz | Michael Arbenz | Thomas Lähns
The cover is a mistake. Let's get that out of the way immediately. In a garish pastiche of a party-political...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2014
Dexter Gordon: Four Classic Albums – Second Set
A previous collection in Avid's series covered Gordon's sadly brief surfacing in 1955 and the start of his more permanent...
Reviewed by Brain Priestley in issue: August/2019
Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth
Nights on Earth is Mendoza’s eighth album as a leader, and this, together with Blauklang (ACT) from 2008, provide ample...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011
Sonny Stitt & Hank Jones Quartet/Quintet: Cherokee/Legendary Studio Sessions
In a parallel universe, if Usain Bolt had been cast as a saxophonist, he would have surely been Sonny Stitt...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2018
Marc Copland: Nightfall
It’s not just the press release that modestly claims this is perhaps the best of Copland’s four unaccompanied albums, it’s...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2018
Sonny Fortune: Infinity Is
There is a decentish album to be made from the combination of highlights of these two sets, each of which...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015
Tohpati: Tribal Dance
Chad Wackerman | Jimmy Haslip | Tohpati
Like his Indonesian compatriot Dewa Budjana, Tohpati has a boggling technique that embraces every mode of jazz-rock guitarism. Unlike Budjana's...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2014
Frank Wright: Blues For Albert Ayler
Benny Wilson | Frank Wright | James Blood Ulmer | Rashied Ali
A fitting homage to Albert Ayler, this performance reaches boiling point at an early stage. The combination of Wright's hearty,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2012
Arild Andersen/the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra/Tommy Smith: Celebration
Arild Andersen | Scottish National Jazz Orchestra | Tommy Smith
Bassist Arild Andersen's critically acclaimed trio with Tommy Smith on saxophone has toured extensively and recorded for ECM – Live...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2012
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