The Necks: Open
Chris Abrahams | Lloyd Swanton | Tony Buck
A single track, over an hour long: this is precisely the sort of long-form improvisation for which Australian trio The...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2014
Peter Gall: Love Avatar
Matthias Pichler | Peter Gall | Rainer Böhm | Reinier Baas | Wanja Slavin
Bavarian-born drummer Peter Gall has an impressive pedigree, which includes work with the New York Voices, Take 6, and the...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: December/2024
Yellowjackets: Cohearance
Bob Mintzer | Dane Alderson | Russell Ferrante | William Kennedy
The title may be groan-worthy but the ethos, as ever with the Yellowjackets, is worth celebrating. This is an album,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2016
Nat Birchall: Creation
Adam Fairhall | Andy Hay | Johnny Hunter | Michael Bardon | Nat Birchall
Has any Coltrane disciple trodden his chosen path so faithfully in recent years? The Manchester tenor/soprano man might have come...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Brian Charette: Jackpot
Bill Stewart | Brian Charette | Corey Weeds | Ed Cherry
Charette is an intriguing Hammond man. In recent years he’s mixed strings and electronics with the gruffer soul of the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2022
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog: Connection
Not as shatter-likely as a ceramic, but pretty shattering to the unsuspecting ear, Connection is Ribot’s fifth free/punk trio recording:...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2023
Anders Jormin: Pasado En Claro
Anders Jormin | Jon Fält | Karin Nakagawa | Lena Willemark
This is best heard as world music, but with a definite ECM twist to it. The opening track, ‘Mist Of...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2023
Rachel Musson: Dreamsing
With so little opportunity for collaboration, instrumentalists have gone down the solo route, One such musician-composer is London-based experimental saxophonist...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2021
Mark Lockheart: Ellington In Anticipation
Ah, now here's a treat. Lockheart's love affair with Ellington goes back to his childhood, but In Anticipation is no...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013
John Abercrombie: Up and Coming
Drew Gress | Joey Baron | John Abercrombie | Marc Copland
A typically modest title from an artist now seamlessly entwined with the ECM label. Abercrombie has long eschewed the rock...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2017
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