The Gascoyne/O'Higgins Quartet: Got The Real Note

Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom

Of course you’ve got to check out the bright young things, but if ever there was a band to default...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

David Liebman/Tatsuya Nakatani/Adam Rudolph: The Unknowable

Adam Rudolph | David Liebman | Tatsuya Nakatani

Dave Liebman has never stopped growing as an artist, harshly self-critical, he is a player constantly seeking to improve, an...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2018

John Surman: Words Unspoken

John Surman | Rob Luft | Rob Waring | Thomas Strønen

Words Unspoken is a natural heir to Surman’s Invisible Threads. As the titles suggest, this is music about the spaces...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2024

Usonic Diversion: Groove

Their previous album struck a chord with MOBO judges winning a 2011 nomination, and UK's Usonic (Nigel Hitchcock and Robert...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Chet Baker: Late Night Jazz

Chet Baker | Egil Kapstad | Jean-Louis Rassinfosse | Philip Catherine | Terje Venaas

The Paris session by Chet Baker for Hot Club Records was brought about by the confluence of two separate things:...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2024

Vis-A-Vis: Obi Agye Me Defo

Gybson ‘Shaoln Kung Fu Papra | Isaac ‘Superstar’ Yebooah | Sammy Cropper | Slim Manu

West Africa in the mid 1970s had no shortage of thrilling experimentation going on, as the tremors of the dance...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Joe Stilgoe: The Heat Is On!: Swinging The 80s

The question: how will mainstream 1980s rock film themes stand up to retro big-band swing arrangements? The answer: surprisingly well,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Things to Sound: 3

If you woz there, then this 42-minute free improv piece by a Swiss trio featuring saxophonist Tobias Meier ‘live’ at...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2018

Sonar with David Torn: Vortex

David Kikoski | Jacquelene Acevedo | Jeremy Pelt | Kush Abadey | Ralph Peterson | Ugonna Okegwo | Wyne Escoffery

Three electric guitars in one band is normally a no-go for the sane among us, but Sonar’s King Crimson-ish post-rock...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn/MF Horn2/MFHorn3

Alan Downey | Bob Sydor | Brian Smith | Bud Parks | Danny Moss | Dave Lynane | John Donnelly | Martin Drover | Maynard Ferguson | Mike Bailey

The letters MF were of course Maynard Ferguson’s initials, but their secondary adjectival meaning also fitted the extrovert Canadian’s prowess...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2013