Anthony Braxton Quintet: (Basel) 1977

Anthony Braxton | Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw | George Lewis | Mark Helias | Muhal Richard Abrams

Over the last couple of decades the balance has tipped in Anthony Braxton's work away from formally-constituted groups towards a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: June/2017

Greg Skaff: Polaris

Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath | Greg Skaff | Ron Carter

The last time Ron Carter and Albert ‘Tootie' Heath worked together was in 1993, for an all-star session called The...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2021

Vivienne Aerts: Typuhtâng

100+ musicians and singers | Vivienne Aerts

New York-based Dutch singer Aerts' third album exists in a parallel dimension to most releases, exploding with extra-musical ambition. Aerts...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2023

Jasmine Myra: Horizons

Alice Roberts | Anna Chandler | Ben Haskins | Elizabeth Lister | Gavin Barras | George Hall | Greg Burns | Isabella Baker | Jasmine Myra | Jasper Green

Jasmine Myra’s debut presents a new generation of spiritual jazz, a resurgent mode always at the heart of Matthew Halsall’s...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2022

Stan Getz: Unissued Session: Copenhagen 1977

Billy Hart | JoAnne Brackeen | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Stan Getz

While Stan Getz was in Denmark at the start of 1977, he recorded two live albums’ worth of material at...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024

Johnny Dankworth: Three Classic Albums Plus

Avid's double-CD combines Dankworth's The Vintage Years, Collaboration, and England's Ambassador of Jazz albums with an EP taken from the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019

Joe Harriott & Co: Helter Skelter: Live, Rare & Unreleased 1955-1963

Joe Harriott | Kurt Edelhagen | The Daily Mail International Jazz Festival All-Stars | The Melody Maker All-Stars

This is an exceptional release comprising entirely of rare Harriott recordings, most previously unreleased. It's an important documentation at three...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Ralph Alessi: Imaginary Friends

Andy Milne | Drew Gress | Mark Ferber | Ralph Alessi | Ravi Coltrane

Ralph Alessi, the New York trumpeter whose improvisations glimmer with understated surprises, has made two earlier ECM recordings (2013’s Baida...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2019

Argüelles Laginha Norbakken: Atlântico

Andreas Norbakken | Julian Argüelles | Mario Laginha

This might be a pan-European trio but it's truly a pan-global music as the album title suggests. It's their second...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021

Immanuel Wilkins: Omega

Immanuel Wilkins

The Blue Note label's talent-scouting skills continue to resurface under current label-boss Don Was. Alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins first came...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2020