Darrell Katz and the JCA Orchestra: Rats Live On No Evil Star

Darrell Katz is the long-time composer-leader of the Jazz Composer's Alliance (JCA) and, in spite of an attempt at no-messin'...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2018

Jasper Blom Qua: Polyphony

Recorded last year in Amsterdam’s unique Bimhuis recital hall, this 2CD set is the Dutch tenor saxophonist-composer’s long-running quartet with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Sonny Stitt: The Latin Sides

Two 1963 albums (Primitivo Soul and Stitt Goes Latin) originally out on Prestige and Roost show Stitt’s typically assertive sound,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

SPILL: Stereo

The duo of Berlin-based pianist Magda Mayas, who works the interior rather than exterior of her instrument, and The Necks...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019

Stan Getz: Imagination

Four-star music, but in a slightly perfunctory selection, so if you're going for Getz in this period seek out the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2019

The Button Band

Led by Bill Frisell-influenced, London-based guitarist-composer Andrew Button, The Button Band's melodious, easy-going debut draws from post-Loose Tubes world-jazz, country...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Brahja Waldmann’s Quartet: Cosmic Brahjas/Closer to the Tones

This young Montreal-New York-based alto saxophonist-composer’s 2-CD set has two different quartet set ups: Cosmic… is restlessly quirky, while Closer…...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Menagerie: Many Worlds

Ben Hanlon | Christin Deralas | Daniel Ferrugia | Fallon Williams | Lance Ferguson | Mark Fitzgibbon | Phil Binotto | Phil Noy | Ross Irwin

This Melbourne-based ensemble, whose last album, 2017's Arrow of Time, picked up plenty of plaudits over here (Gilles Peterson, Jamie...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2021

Cannonball Adderley: Burnin’ in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969

Cannonball Adderley | George Duke | Joe Zawinul | Nat Adderley | Roy McCurdy | Victor Gaskin | Walter Booker

The Adderley brothers stayed true to each other, touring and recording together as a quintet under Cannonball’s leadership until his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2024

Album Interview: Alan Barnes: Alan Barnes + Eleven

Alan Barnes | Andy Panayi | Gordon Campbell | Howard McGill | James Copus | Mark Nightingale | Matt Skelton | Mick Foster | Pat White | Robert Fowler

Barnes tags this album as his ‘60th Birthday Celebration – New Takes on Tunes from '59’. Having selected 11 pieces...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2019