Brötzmann/Leigh: Sparrow Nights

Heather Leigh | Peter Brötzmann

Though this is the duo’s fourth album since their debut in 2016, it’s their first studio outing – and a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Roberta Piket: One for Marian

Dedicated to pianist Marian McPartland who died in 2013, the pianist performs an extended ensemble version of her melancholy-tinged compositions...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Banda Magda: Tigre

Andres Rotmistrovsky | Bob Lanzetti | Chris Bullock | James Shipp | Jordan Perlson | Juan Andres Ospina | Justin Stanton | Keita Ogawa | Maeve Gilchrist | Magda Giannikou

Magda Giannikou is a Greek-born multi-instrumentalist with a vast imagination and a synaesthetic approach to composition, with ideas and sound...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2017

Little Feat: Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros years 1971-1990

Bill Payne | Kenny Gradney | Lowell George | Paul Barrere | Richie Hayward | Roy Estrada | Sam Clayton

Time Loves A Hero proclaims the title of Little Feat's sixth album, but time has clearly not loved the band's...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2014

Savoy Orpheans: Everybody Stomp

Chris Ellis' latest collection of British proto-jazz from 1923-7 features the Staritas and others in various Savoy hotel bands....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012

Steve Lacy: Avignon And After 2 (1972-7)

Steve Lacy

A man who only played the ‘straight horn’ throughout his lengthy and accomplished career, Lacy really seems in his element...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2014

Clifton Anderson: Been Down This Road Before

Al Foster | Andy Bey | Angela Workman | Antoine Roney | Buster Williams | Clifton Anderson | Eric Wyatt | John F Adams | Maia Waldron | Monty Alexander

British listeners might know 63-year old trombonist Anderson best as a former sideman in Sonny Rollins' touring bands. He is...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2021

Red Kite: Theory of Colours

Esben Tjalve | Fulvio Sigurta | Hannes Riepler | Jasper Høiby | Ross Hughes | Tim Giles

Red Kite play a kind of wide-ranging, atomised fusion, meshing styles from noir score to reggae while instruments orbit in...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2020

Herbie Hancock: Herbie Hancock Box

Alphonse Mouzon | Benny Maupin | Bernard Fowler | Bill Laswell | Bill Summers | Daniel Ponce | Freddie Hubbard | Freddie Washington | Gavin Christopher | Grandmixer DST

There is a fascinating debate to be had about the respective merits of Blue Note Herbie and Columbia Herbie, given...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Duke Ellington: Piano In The Background

Essential 1960 album by the full Ellington band, which, despite the title, puts Ellington's playing firmly in the spotlight, plus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012