The Steve Fishwick/Osian Roberts/Frank Basile Sextet: In The Empire State

Frank Basile | Jeb Patton | Matt Fishwick | Mike Karn | Osian Roberts | Steve Fishwick

For my (rapidly falling off the perch) generation, the British trumpet player was unquestionably Jimmy Deuchar. And for those who...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2016

Jim Hall: Three Classic Albums Plus

This excellent double-album compendium captures the earliest recordings of Jim Hall, the quintessential example of a guitarist's guitarist. You don't...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2019

Josephine Davies’ Satori: How Can We Wake?

Josephine Davies

How Can we Wake? is saxophonist-composer Josephine Davies's trio Satori's third – and second ‘live’ – album since forming in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020

Phil Robson Trio: The Cut Off Point

Gene Calderazzo | Phil Robson | Ross Stanley

The wonder is that it's taken Robson so long to set up such a trio. What doesn't surprise however is...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2015

Stephen Crump's Rhombal: Rhombal

Adam O’Farrill | Ellery Eskelin | Stephen Crump | Tyshawn Sorey

Sometimes discarding a harmonic instrument leads to self-indulgence, but on this bass-led quartet album, it has clearly concentrated the mind....

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2016

Dominic Howles Quintet: Along Came Benny

Dave O'Higgins | Dominic Howles | Matt Fishwick | Nick Tomalin | Ross Stanley | Steve Fishwick

This self-produced (and presumably self-financed) album has taken some time to surface and its appearance now is to be welcomed....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2019

Archie Shepp: Sea of Faces

Archie Shepp | Beaver Harris | Bunny Foy | Cameron Brown | Charles Greenlee | Dave Burrell | Rafi Taha

This 1975 recording was the standout album in the 4CD Archie Shepp compilation set I reviewed in February 2016, and...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2017

Lou Donaldson/Grant Green: Cool Blues

Baby Face Willette | Dave Bailey | Grant Green | Jack McDuff | Joe Dukes | Lou Donaldson

These tracks come from Blue Note sessions taped by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder at his New Jersey studio, so...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2013

Joe Harriott/Amancio D'Silva: Hum Dono

Amancio D'Silva | Bryan Spring | Dave Green | Ian Carr | Joe Harriott | Norma Winstone

Such is the Holy Grail cachet of this album it's impossible not to see the sign ‘Rarer than hen's teeth’...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015

Jim Black Trio: Actuality

Elias Stemeseder | Jim Black | Thomas Morgan

Have Germany's Winter & Winter label stopped doing their special cardboard CD design packaging? Well, as they say, it's the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014