Yaniv Taubenhouse: Hope

Yaniv Taubenhouse

During the pandemic, and the periods of lockdown that ensued to contain the virus, many artists took the opportunity of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2022

Ronin Arkestra: Sonkei

A sizeable high-octane Japanese-based ensemble led by Mark de Clive Lowe give us a pretty invigorating blast of spiritual jazz,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Earl Bostic: Four Classic Albums

Here's 2CDs worth of the Bostic formula – that growly, distinctive alto with generally robust and usually swinging backdrops, playing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Erlend Apneseth: Fragmentarium

Fragmentarium Hubro ‘Nordic exotica’ could be a way of describing the Hardanger fiddler-composer Erlend Apneseth’s seductive otherworldly mix of sampling...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Lynne Arriale: The Lights Are Always On

EJ Strickand | Jasper Somsen | Lynne Arriale

Among the 10 originals that make up this album, one stands out as representing the kind of work at which...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2022

Hugh Masekela: Sixty/Black To The Future/Notes Of Life

Don Laka | Fana Zulu | Hugh Masekela

South African trumpeter-vocalist Masekela recorded this trio of albums in a four-year period in the mid-1990s in what seemed like...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Atmosphères

Arve Henriksen | Eivind Aarset | Jan Bang | Tigran Hamasyan

Today, perhaps more than ever, when music is increasingly being commodified by the digital revolution, a jazz recording has to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2016

Pokaz Trio: Kintsugi

This energetically grooving contemporary Ukrainian piano trio tie together rhapsodic classical and Slavic folk melodies with contemporary beats and a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Duke Ellington: Plays Mary Poppins + Afro Bossa

Buster Cooper | Cat Anderson | Chuck Connors | Cootie Williams | Duke Ellington | Harry Carney | Herbie Jones | Jimmy Hamilton | John Lamb | Johnny Hodges

Afro Bossa and Mary Poppins, together with The Symphonic Ellington, were easily the best albums of the Duke's brief sojourn...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Alex Hitchcock Quintet: Live At The London And Cambridge Jazz Festivals

Alex Hitchcock | James Copus | Jay Davis | Joe Downard | Will Barry

Saxophonist and composer Alex Hitchcock formed this band for his 2016 postgrad finals at the Royal Academy of Music, and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018