The Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra: Have you Heard

Jazz musicians of the future provide a snapshot of the concert programme of a regional youth big band struggling with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013

Nat King Cole and Quincy Jones: Live in Zurich 1960

Long bootlegged, this is the first ‘official’ release of Cole's broadcast with the Jones orchestra in 1960, and with great...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Partisans: Swamp

Gene Calderazzo | Julian Siegel | Phil Robson | Thad Kelly

By treating us mean, those Partisans keep us keen: this is only their fifth album in 18 years and their...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2014

Avishai Cohen: 1970

Avishai Cohen | Elyasaf Bishari | Itamar Doari | Jonatan Daskal | Julia Klain | Karen Malka | Sherrod Barnes | Tal Kohavi | Yael Shapira

There are signs on 1970 that Avishai Cohen, the bassist, just might fancy himself as the next Paul McCartney. Joking...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Max Johnson: In The West

The new York-based double bassist (in quartet featuring intriguing pianist-composer Kris Davis) keeps a foot in both the leftfield improv...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

Volker Kriegel: With a Little Help From My Friends

European fusion guitar from the German maestro in several settings from 1968, from EPs to broadcasts, with friends including tenorist...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Sun Ra/Outer Space Arkestra: A Fireside Chat With Lucifer

Atakatune | Danny Ray Thompson | Eric Walker | Hayes Burnett | James Jacson | John Gilmore | John Ore | June Tyson | Marshall Allen | Sun Ra

The key track on this rare 1980s recording sees Sun Ra warning the inhabitants of planet Earth about the threat...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: December/2020

Luciana Souza: The Book of Chet

If anyone can get close to the achingly intimate vocal of Chet Baker it could be this feted Grammy-winning Brazilian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

The Geordie Approach: Shields

Chris Sharkey | Petter Frost Fadnes | Ståle Birkeland

The Geordie Approach are no ordinary improvising trio. Their previous two albums – 2007’s Why Eye and Inatween from 2012...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2020

Chris Higginbottom: Where Land Ends

Chris Higginbottom | Mike Outram | Robin Mullarkey | Tom Cawley

Drummer Chris Higginbottom studied on a scholarship at the New School in New York in 2002 and thereafter stuck around...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013