The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Walter Perkins

This was self-taught vibraphonist Dave Pike's second album under his own name. The interest today is that the pianist on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Samadhi Quintet: The Dance of Venus

Dominic J Marshall | Krzysztof Urbanski | Sam Bell | Sam Gardner | Sam Vicary

Released by the recording arm of the F-IRE Collective, Samadhi Quintet is led by a young ex-Leeds College of Music...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio: San Sebastian

Mulgrew Miller | Ron Carter | Russell Malone

When a man gets old his reflexes slow down and he starts to take life easier. It's only natural, especially...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2013

Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns

Hedvig Mollestad | Ole Mofjell | Ståle Storløkken

Mollestad has always had to barrel hoop her energies to bring form to her eruptive powers. Her trio is hyper-rehearsed...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2023

John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension/Jimmy Herring & The Invisible Whip: Live in San Francisco

Etienne M’Bappe | Gary Husband | Jason Crosby | Jeff Sipe | Jimmy Herring | John McLaughlin | Kevin Scott | Matt Slocum | Ranjit Barot

An important album in John McLaughlin's discography, Live in San Francisco is taken from his farewell tour of the US...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Victor Feldman: Four Classic Albums

A boy-wonder on drums who went on to become an excellent pianist, vibraphonist and front-rank composer of classic modern-jazz themes,...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2020

David Gibson: Boom!

Alex Claffy | David Gibson | Josh Evans | Kush Abadey | Theo Hill

Posi-Tone's producer Marc Free (who, incidentally, was at college with the sons of probably Britain's best-ever jazz export, Victor Feldman)...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2015

Mundell Lowe: Five Classic Albums

Al Haig | Art Taylor | Buddy Rich | Charlie Parker | Curley Russell | Dizzy Gillespie | Don Lamond | Hank Jones | Kenny Dorham | Max Roach

Overshadowed by the likes of Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell and Tal Farlow, Lowe was a major league talent whose metier,...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2020

The Golden Age of Steam: Tomato Brain

Alex Bonney | James Allsopp | Kit Downes | Ruth Goller | Tim Giles

This one-take improvisation gives a singular context to James Allsopp's sax, his sketched compositions growing in the dank electronica of...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2021

Masahiko Togashi: Session In Paris: Vol. One ‘Song Of Soil’

Charlie Haden | Don Cherry | Masahiko Togashi

The great Japanese percussionist Masahiko Togashi (1940-2007) grew up in a musical family – his father was a renowned jazz...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2023