Orchestra Nazionale della Luna: There's Still Life on Earth

Kari Ikonen | Manuel Hermia | Sebastien Boisseau | Teun Verbruggen

An orchestra that is really a quartet comprising two Belgians, a Finn and a Frenchman that came together on the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2020

Max Roach: members, don’t git weary.

Andy Bey | Charles Tolliver | Gary Bartz | Jymie Merrit | Max Roach | Stanley Cowell

Recorded and released in the wake of America's post MLK/RFK assassination turmoil and its increasingly fraught intervention in Vietnam, members…...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2023

Fred Frith/Ikue Mori: A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall

Avant-guitarist Frith and sound artist Mori have worked together for years now and this collaboration, taped in 2015, is inspired...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021

Kristian Borring: Silent Storm

Arthur Lea | Jon Scott | Kristian Borring | Mick Coady

This is the third album from Denmark-born guitarist Kristian Borring and his quartet, but the first where they've gone it...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2016

Tomorrow’s New Quartet: All Together Now!

Deschanel Gordon | Flo Moore | Helena Kaye | Rod Oughton

Martin Hummel and Ubuntu have been and gone and done it again. One doesn’t want to over-praise so young a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2022

Dexter Gordon Quartet: Willisau 1978

Dexter Gordon | Eddie Gladden | George Cables | Rufus Reid

One band, one year, two gigs and two very different nights for Long Tall Dexter. The simultaneous release of these...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2021

Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus

Alan Jackson | Bruce Turner | Dave Green | Lol Coxhill | Michael Garrick

One of the delights of recovering jazz recordings from the archives is hearing studio chatter among the musicians, busy sound...

Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: August/2024

Olivier/Abbasi: Oasis

With its understated Indian percussion instrumentation, this collaboration between French harpist Isabelle Olivier and New York-based guitarist Rez Abbasi catches...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Dick Hyman: Solo at the Sacramento Jazz Festivals 1983-88

Still going strong at the age of 90 at the time of writing, Hyman is one of the finest jazz...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Dewa Budjana: Mahandini

On his latest album for MoonJune, this Indonesian fusion guitarist-composer's band goes full-throttle on a deft mix of indo-prog and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019