Jack Magnet Science: Future Forecast
You really want to like this album. After all, there are foremost fusioneers on board, like Peter Erskine (Weather Report)...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2024
Joshua Redman & Brooklyn Rider: Sun On Sand
Saxophonist Redman and composer-arranger Patrick Zimmerli collaborate again following 2014's Walking Shadows, and this new work foregrounds the latter since...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Bill Evans Trio: Portrait In Jazz
Bill Evans | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Paul Motian | Scott LaFaro
Recorded three days before the end of 1959, and usually omitted from the seminal albums of that year, Portrait In...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2017
Nik Turner and Youth: Pharaohs from Outer Space
Killing Joke bassist and producer Youth's new label, Painted Word, directly homages ECM's austere design and preference for “experimental ambient...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2018
Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes
Bill Carbone | Charlie Kohlhase | Dave Ambrosio | Jared Sims | Matt Steckler | Terry Goss
Dead Cat Bounce, led by New York-based composer and reedsman Matt Steckler, has a cheeky, massed horn approach similar to...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2012
Grover Washington Jnr: Grover Live
Recorded just two years before his untimely death this concert fully illustrates why Gil Scott-Heron felt the need to name...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2017
Andrew Swift: Swift Kick
Here's a very enterprising (and seemingly expensive) debut recording by an Australian drummer composer/arranger living in NYC who plays with...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2012
Barney Kessel: Live at the Jazz Mill 1954
Art Kile | Barney Kessel | Pete Jolly
Here's a discovery. The Jazz Mill club was in Phoenix, Arizona, but only lasted for a year, bringing in top...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2017
Eddie Harris: Silver Cycles
The late Chicago saxophonist can make a credible claim to being one of the great bridges between the mainstream and...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014
Art Pepper: Live In Japan Ophelia/The Summer Knows
Pulled from Art's archives, these location tapes may have been around the block a couple of times (as four separate...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2012
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