Freddie Hubbard: Keep Your Soul Together/Polar AC/Skagly

Airto | Aurell Ray | Billy Childs | Billy Cobham | Carl Burnet | Freddie Hubbard | George Benson | George Cables | George Duke | Hadley Caliman

Hard jazzers may poo poo Hubbard's CTI years, but there remains some lustrous music from that era. Keep Your Soul...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014

Gregory Tardy: Chasing After the Wind

Alex Norris | Bruce Barth | Gregory Tardy | Jaimeo Brown | Sam Sadigursky | Sean Conly

This CD generates more heat than many of Tardy's recent recordings. The rekindling of the 1990s frontline partnership between Tardy...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2017

Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant: Seances

Anna Webber | Carla Kihlstedt | Ches Smith | Mariel Roberts | Mary Halvorson | Oscar Noriega | Trevor Dunn

Hope you’ve not been holding your breath since Trio Convulsant’s debut, because that was 18 years ago and you’d be...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2022

Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr: Landed in Brooklyn

Donny McCaslin | Julian Wasserfuhr | Nate Wood | Roman Wasserfuhr | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre

Initially recording for ACT's ‘Young German Jazz’ series in 2006 with Remember Chet, this sibling union has gone on to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Aki Takase: Hokusai – Piano Solo

Aki Takase | Alex Von Schlippenbach | Alex von Schlippenbach | Yoko Tawada

A long-time stalwart of the European avant-garde scene and long-time partner of Alex von Schlippenbach, Takase is now a senior...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2019

Huntsville: Pond

Ingar Zach | Ivar Grydeland | Tonny Kluften

Over the last decade or so, Norwegian trio, Huntsville, have forged a unique musical language that draws deeply from several...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2015

John Scofield: Swallow Tales

Bill Stewart | John Scofield | Steve Swallow

John Scofield met Steve Swallow at Berklee half a century ago, in a student-teacher connection that became a playing partnership...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

Aki Takase & David Murray: Cherry Sakura

Aki Takase | David Murray

The vast experience that Takase and Murray have as duet players is heard from the opening bars of the lengthy...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2017

Nils Wülker and Münchner Rundunkorchester: Continuum

Jan Miserre | Matthias Meusel | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Nils Wülker | Patrick Hahn | Sven Faller

The ‘Young Man with the Horn’ image has been around for some time as a major label marketing ploy and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2022

Fredy Studer: Now's The Time

A former member of successful 1970s fusion Swiss band OM, the 70-year-old veteran drummer goes solo with an original and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2018