Renato D'Aiello: Satori, The Angel

Bruno Montrone | Deelee Dube | Gaspar Bertoncelj | Greg Riddell | Jamie Campbell | Jeff Otto | Meghan Cassidy | Michael Demarco | Nicola Murescu | Renato D'Aiello

Berklee-trained Italian tenorman D'Aiello has been a London fixture since 1999 and is noted for his warm, emotional style. Here...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2015

The Necks: Mindset

Chris Abrahams | Lloyd Swanton | Tony Buck

More than 20 years and a couple of dozen albums into their musical journey together, Australian improvising trio, The Necks,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Cartoon: Change of Meaning

Chris Biscoe | John Pope | Roger Turner

Cartoon is a UK-based trio made up of the versatile multi-reeds veteran Chris Biscoe, an underappreciated player best known for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Dave Brubeck Quartet: At the Sunset Center, Carmel 1955

Bob Bates | Dave Brubeck | Joe Dodge | Paul Desmond

The release of this CD presents, for the first time ever, the complete concert by the Dave Brubeck Quartet at...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017

Alvin Queen Trio: Night Train to Copenhagen

Alvin Queen | Calle Brickman | Tobias Dall

Queen, born in the Bronx in 1950, moved to Geneva in Switzerland in 1979. He had worked in the US...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Julia Werup: Dear Frances

Andreas Kleerup | Johnny Åman | Julia Werup | Matthias Petri | Niclas Campagnol | Svend Erik Lundeqvist | Thomas Blachman

An under-appreciated downside of the Covid pandemic and its associated lockdowns was the fact that a lot of albums got...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2024

Dominik Wania: Lonely Shadows

The pianist, a member of the Maciej Obara quartet, goes solo with a series of spontaneous improvs on his ECM...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Mark Lewandowski: Waller

Liam Noble | Mark Lewandowski | Paul Clarvis

Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller may have gone (he died in 1943), but after a considerable hiatus he's no longer forgotten. Mark...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Russell Malone: Time For The Dancers

Luke Sellick | Rick Germanson | Russell Malone | Willie Jones III

This is this quartet's second album for High Note and the band synergy is clear – it rolls along through...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: November/2017

Knut Rössler and Johannes Vogt: Octagon: Between the Times

Günter Lenz | Johannes Vogt | Knut Rössler | Ute Kreidler | Werner Goos

No one could accuse ACT boss Siggi Loch of going for the easy sell. Knut Rössler and Johannes Vogt's previous...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2010