David Murray: Lucky Four

Dave Burrell | David Murray | Victor Lewis | Wilbur Morris

When Murray burst onto the free jazz loft scene in New York of the late 1970s, his saxophone style embraced...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023

Slobber Pup: Black Aces

Balasz Pandi | Jamie Saft | Joe Morris | Trevor Dunn

Here are four heavy-hitters with intertwined musical lives that dip in and out of several weird by-waters, taking in collaborations...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2013

David S. Ware New Quartet: Theatre Garonne, 2008

David S. Ware | Joe Morris | Warren Smith | William Parker

Recorded in concert in France four years before his death, this disc finds Ware on stellar form, leading a band...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2020

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Callas

Ivo Perelman | Joe Morris | Mat Maneri | Matthew Shipp | Whit Dickey

True to form New York-based Brazilian saxophonist Perelman unveils another burst of activity with three projects that could not be...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2015

Soft Machine: Facelift France and Holland

Elton Dean | Hugh Hopper | Lyn Dobson | Mike Ratledge | Robert Wyatt

Phew, not so much a release, as event that will have Softs fans drooling. There are over two hours of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022

Ivo Perelman Quartet: The Home Of The Star

Gerald Cleaver | Ivo Perelman | Joe Morris | Matthew Shipp

Brazilian saxophonist Pereleman has been one of the most consistent of Leo's artists, contributing some thirteen titles in 15 years,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2011

Yusef Lateef: Four Classic Albums Plus: Jazz Moods/The Music Of Yusef Lateef/The Dreamer/Cry Tender

Bernard McKinney | Curtis Fuller | Ernie Farrow | Frank Gant | Herman Wright | Hugh Lawson | Lonnie Hilyer | Louis Hayes | Oliver Jackson | Terry Pollard

Formative chapters in a career that spanned well over one hundred albums as both leader and valued sideman. It has...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2015

Jezebel Sextet: Lift it Up!

Get Carter-meets-The Meters on this hip jazzy organ-horns funk ensemble's very tasty debut featuring JTQ guitarist Hugh Gledhill....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2012

Evan Parker: Winns Win

Evan Parker

Recorded at the house in Walthamstow where Victorian designer and socialist activist William Morris once lived and worked – and...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: February/2022

Kyle Eastwood: Cinematic

Andrew McCormack | Brandon Allen | Camille Bertailt | Chris Higginbottom | Hugh Coltman | Kyle Eastwood | Quentin Collins | Stefano di Batista

You could say that the seed for Cinematic was sown in Kyle Eastwood’s 2017 album, In Transit, which featured an...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2020