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Stoop Quintet: Confession

Alex Munk | Dave Smyth | Flo Moore | Jonathan Brigg | Sam Miles

ASC

Rating: ★★★

Threads Orchestra, one of Troyka bandmates Kit Downes’ and Chris Montague's tangled career branches, have close ties to the University...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2016

Lisa Hilton: More than Another Day

Lisa Hilton | Luques Curtis | Rudy Royston

Ruby Slipper Productions

Rating: ★★★

Pianist-composer Lisa Hilton has been recording regularly for her own label Ruby Slippers since the late 1990s. Her jazz piano...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

Ego Ella May: Honey For Wounds

Upper Room Records (CD)

Rating: ★★★

Ego Ella May's sophomore album, Honey for Wounds, finds her smooth, sage voice chronicling societal ills and personal heartache in...

Reviewed by Christine Hannigan in issue: July/2020

Paul Kimber & Phil Merriman: Duos, Duets and Duels

Paul Kimber | Phil Merriman

Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★

This is the third jazz release from British bass player and composer Paul Kimber. Previous discs have drawn on bigger...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2016

Gary Husband and Alex Machacek: Now

Fabrizio Cassol | Michel Hatzigeorgiou | Stéphane Galland

Outhere

Rating: ★★★

Historically Husband's enjoyed a tortured relationship with the piano ever since his erstwhile teacher hurled his beloved Bill Evans recordings...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2018

Arve Henriksen: The Height Of The Reeds

Arve Henriksen | Eivind Aarset | Jan Bang | Jez riley French | Justin Doyle

Rune Grammofon RCD

Rating: ★★★

This music, jointly composed by ethereally beguiling Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen with his celebrated compatriots Eivind Aarset (effects guitar) and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2018

Theo Croker: Star People Nation

Sony

Rating: ★★★

Trumpeter Croker has always been vocal about the substantial influence the late Roy Hargrove exerted on him, and this interesting...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2019

Phronesis: We Are All

Anton Eger | Ivo Neame | Jasper Høiby

Edition

Rating: ★★★★

Phronesis's eighth album finds thematic focus in the interconnectedness of its title, and nature's divine, unnecessary beauty. Jasper Høiby's nine-minute...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2018