Black Art Jazz Collective: Armor Of Pride
James Burton III | Jeremy Pelt | Johnathan Blake | Vincente Archer | Wayne Escoffery | Xavier Davis
One of last year's most exciting recording debuts was that of BAJC on HighNote. In existence on and off since...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2018
Chip Wickham: Cloud 10
Manchester’s Gondwana Records, under its founder Matthew Halsall, has provided a home for a parallel stream of contemporary UK jazz,...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: September/2022
Hannes Riepler: The Brave
Hannes Riepler | Jon Scott | Kit Downes | Ryan Trebilcock | Tom Challenger
Originally from Innsbruck in Austria, guitarist Hannes Riepler came to London via study in Amsterdam and has been running regular...
Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: August/2012
Michael Mayo: Fly
Linda May Han Oh | Michael Mayo | Nate Smith | Scott Mayo | Shai Maestro | Valerie Pinkston
Mayo’s debut album, Bones, was a work of startling originality with a sound world which referenced everything from The Beach...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2024
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
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
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
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