Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane: Complete Live At The Five Spot

Ahmed Abdul-Malik | John Coltrane | Roy Haynes | Shadow Wilson | Thelonious Monk | Wilbur Ware

Only discovered in the 1980s, this five-track, 44-minute recording first released by Blue Note was done with a table-top mic...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2013

Monty Alexander: The Montreux Years

Andy Bassford | Carlton Messam | Dwight Dawes | Ed Thigpen | Ernest Ranglin | Hassan Shakur | Ira Coleman | Jason Brown | Karl Wright | Leon Duncan

Opening with a stunning 1995 solo performance of Alexander's original ‘The Serpent’, there's immediately no doubt that this latest Montreux...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023

Persson Danielsson Sundby: The Second Time Around Live in UMEA

The Gothenburg-born pianist Anders Persson is the nominal leader and main composer behind an elegant Euro-jazz contemporary trio that features...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Ornette Coleman: The Music Of Ornette Coleman/Skies Of America

Anthony Gigliotti | Bernard Garfield | Carlton Cooley | David Measham | John De Lancie | Mason Jones | Murray Panitz | Ornette Coleman | Stuart Canin | the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia Quartet

Although he has been one of the great soloists and small group bandleaders in the history of jazz, Coleman has...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2012

Amira: Amulette

Amira Medunjanin | Bachar Khalife | Bojan Z | Kim Burton | Nenad Vasilic | Vlatko Stefanovski

This is the Bosnian singer Amira’s fourth album release since 2004’s Rosa. Each release, even 2009’s consolidating Live – recorded...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: October/2011

Glenn Zaleski: My Ideal

Craig Weinrib | Dezron Douglas | Glenn Zaleski | Ravi Coltrane

You have to wait until the end of this album before you hear Zaleski's mentor Ravi Coltrane. The tenor saxophonist...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2015

Andy Milne & Unison: The Remission

The Canadian pianist Andy Milne, an ex-sideman for Steve Coleman, plays elegantly enigmatic lines, with something of the spacy rhythmic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Michael Schiefel: Platypus Trio

This German vocalist combines experimental scat and choirboy singing in an unusual sounding trio with cellist Jorg Brinkmann and Hungarian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Elliot Galvin Trio: Dreamland

Zoe Rahman

In the midst of winning awards left right and centre, pianist Elliot Galvin opens up his account with an album...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2016

Various Artists: Making Rooms: Mopomoso Tour 2013

Alex Ward | Alison Blunt | Benedict Taylor | David Leahy | Evan Parker | John Edwards | John Russell | Pat Thomas

Any London-based fan of what Lol Coxhill called ‘squeaky bonky music’ will be familiar with Mopomoso (MOdernism POstMOdernism SO what?),...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2017