Julian Shore: Where We Started

Julian Shore

Where We Started is either the third or fourth album by New York-based Shore – an earlier work, Filaments, was...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2020

Z-Country Paradise: Live in Lisbon

Recorded live at the Jazz em Agosto Festival in 2016, this no-wave avant-jazz quintet's imposing line-up includes experimental reeds-man Frank...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Kinetika Bloco: Legacy

Andre Johnson | Aneira Jenkins | Artie Zaitz | Claude Deppa | David Mrakpor | Ife Ogunjobi | Kaidi Akinnibi | Kieran Pearson | Lily Carassik | Mark Kavuma

Kinetika Bloco are a phenomenon – over the last 20 years the percussion-and-horn-heavy collective have evolved their own irresistible version...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2022

Sun Ra: Fate In A Pleasant Mood + Bad And Beautiful

| George Hudson | John Gilmore | Jon Hardy | Marshall Allen | Nate Pryor | Pat Patrick | Ronnie Boykins | Sun Ra | Thomas ‘Bugs’ Hunter

Three more additions to Sun Ra's already prolific and mysterious discography, all of which showcase certain aspects of his inspirational...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: February/2017

Duke Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder

Bill Graham | Billy Strayhorn | Britt Woodman | Cat Anderson | Clark Terry | Duke Ellington | Fats Ford | Harold Baker | Harry Carney | Jimmy Hamilton

Both of these compilations of a famous album with bonus material have previously been on the Essential Jazz Classics label,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012

The Dudley Moore Trio: Have Some Moore!

Chris Karan | Dudley Moore | Jeff Clyne | Pete McGurk

This 2CD special edition culls material ranging from Moore's first 1961 EP to a previously unissued track from a 1977...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2019

Dai Fujikura/Jan Bang: The Bowmaker

Arve Henrikson | Dai Fujikura | Eivind Aarset | Jan Bang | Kati Raitinen | Nils Petter Molvaer | Tamami Tono

Fujikura and Bang create sound worlds at once enigmatic yet strangely certain. ‘Nearly Invisible’, so appropriately titled, could be an...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2022

Mike Melillo/Chet Baker: Symphonically

Latterday Chet with Italian rhythm section and orchestra directed by expat US pianist Melillo, with some good moments, including Chet's...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2017

Sun Ra And His Arkestra: In The Orbit Of Ra

Akh Tal Ebah | Alzo Wright | Atakatune [Stanley Morgan] | Cheryl Banks | Danny Davis | Danny Ray Thompson | Elo Omoe | Harry Richards | James Spaulding | Jim Herndon

Presented by long standing Arkestra member and present bandleader Marshall Allen, this is an intelligently assembled compilation of the maestro's...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: October/2014

Kevin Coelho: Funkengruven

This 16-year-old Californian Hammond organist makes an early start in a regular B3 trio set of originals and funk, soul...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012