Review of Dominic J Marshall & Friends: The Triolithic

Dominic J Marshall & Friends: The Triolithic

Dominic J Marshall | Glenn Gaddum Jr | Jamie Peet | Lars Dietrich | Sam Gardner | Sam Vicary

Challenge

Rating: ★★★★

Having studied jazz at Leeds College of Music, the 20-something Scottish-born pianist went on to the post-grad course at the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Review of Archie the Goldfish: Water & Light

Archie the Goldfish: Water & Light

Aidan Thorne | Chris Bestwick | Graeme Flowers | Kishon Khan | Nadia Basurto

Funkiwala Records

Rating: ★★★

Archie the Goldfish is a new project from Graeme Flowers and Chris Bestwick, who first played together over two decades...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2021

Review of Michelle Lordi: Two Moons

Michelle Lordi: Two Moons

Caleb Curtis | Eric Revis | Matthew Parrish | Michelle Lordi | Nasheet Waits | Orrin Evans

Imani

Rating: ★★★

Michelle Lordi, who hails from Philadelphia, has taken the slightly unusual step of recording a jazz concept album. And what...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: February/2024

Review of Wolfgang Muthspiel: Dance of the Elders

Wolfgang Muthspiel: Dance of the Elders

Brian Blade | Scott Colley | Wolfgang Muthspiel

Editor's Choice

ECM ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Nine years after his ECM debut Driftwood, Muthspiel may consider himself one of the ‘elders’ in the title of his...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2023

Review of Xhosa Cole: On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)

Xhosa Cole: On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)

Heidi Vogel | Josh Vadiveloo | Liberty Styles | Nathan England Jones | Steve Saunders | Xhosa Cole

Editor's Choice

Stoney Lane

Rating: ★★★★

Birmingham saxophonist Xhosa Cole cements his reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting improvisers on this tribute to Thelonious...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2025

Review of Album Interview: Scott Kinsey: We Speak Luniwaz

Album Interview: Scott Kinsey: We Speak Luniwaz

Arto Tunöboyaciyan | Bobby Thomas | Gergö Borlai | Hadrien Feraud | Jimmy Haslip | Katisse Buckingham | Scott Kinsey

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Scott Kinsey got to know Joe Zawinul in the last years of his life and was namechecked as an ‘Assistant...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Review of Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were

Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were

Bill Laurance | Michael League

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

Bill Laurance and Michael League are the most prominent members of Grammy-winning supergroup Snarky Puppy, not the least because of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023

Review of Tingvall Trio: Vägen

Tingvall Trio: Vägen

Adam Zolynski | Axel Ruhland | Gregor Lentjes | Jansen Folkers | Jürgen Spiegel | Martin Bentz | Martin Tingvall | Omar Rodriguez Calvo

Skip

Rating: ★★★★

Like meeting a friend you haven't seen in years, but manage to pick up a conversation with immediately as if...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: August/2012

Review of Eric Reed: Groovewise

Eric Reed: Groovewise

Ben Williams | Eric Reed | Gregory Hutchinson | Seamus Blake

Smoke Sessions Records

Rating: ★★★★

Back in the 1990s, Eric Reed was a fairly regular visitor to the UK. Sadly, some 20 years later, we...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2015

Review of Michael Wollny: Mondenkind

Michael Wollny: Mondenkind

Michael Wollny

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

Michael Wollny, now a family man who teaches in academe, put lockdown to good use in April with this exhilarating...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2020

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