Meshell Ndegeocello: Comet, Come To Me

Chris Bruce | Doyle Bramhall | Earl Harvin | Jebin Bruni | Meshell Ndgeocello | Shara Worden

As her body of work ages with much grace – last year actually marked the 20th anniversary of her superb...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2014

Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam

Angus Menter | Billy Bottle | Gary Evans | Jay Darlington | Kate Westbrook | Lee Fletcher | Markus Reuter | Martine Waltier | Mike Outram | Roz Harding

Mystical reflections on England's green and pleasant land might have gone out of fashion after 1970s prog rock but the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

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

The Full Circle Quartet: Open Water

Angus Bishop | Josephine Davies | Joss Peach | Terry Pack

The Full Circle Quartet play with a chamber-like intimacy that belies their sinewy strengths. They have an affinity for nature,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2025

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: The Early Years – 1954-59

Apart from two tracks this is identical to Avid's double-disc set Four Classic Albums, currently on sale at £5.99 as...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Alex Norris Organ Quartet: Extension Deadline

With a heavyweight line-up featuring saxophonist Gary Thomas, Hammond B-3er George Colligan and drummer Rudy Royston, trumpeter Alex Norris goes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2015

Bob Holz: Visions: Coast To Coast Connection

Every track apart from the opener starts with a tedious reverb-y fill by the leader-drummer Bob Holz (ex-Larry Coryell band)...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2018