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

The Impossible Gentlemen: Let's Get Deluxe

Adam Nussbaum | Gwilym Simcock | Iain Dixon | Mike Walker | Steve Rodby

The Anglo-American supergroup The Impossible Gentlemen's third CD on Basho Records hits you right between the eyes with its mix...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2016

Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Deep Memory

Barry Guy | Marilyn Crispell | Paul Lytton

Barry Guy's most recent music has taken a deeper dive inside a concept that has long provided Guy the composer,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2017

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

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

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

The Great Wee Band: The Sound of Music

Dave Green | Henry Lowther | Jim Mullen | Stu Butterfield

It was Mullen who coined the band name after an especially pleasing gig. Listen to this engaging release and you'll...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2010