Jü: Summa

Ádám Mészáros | András Halmos | Bálint Bolcsó | Erno Hock | Kjetil Møster

Like many RareNoise bands, Jü defy definition, but there's no denying the energy and freedom that underwrites the great swathes...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2017

Ambrose Akinmusire: A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard

Ambrose Akinmusire | Harish Raghavan | Justin Brown | Sam Harris

Trumpeter Akinmusire's studio output has been steady since his 2008 album Prelude To Cora, and this double album recorded in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2017

Sean Khan: Muriel

Andy Noble | Diana Martinez | Heidi Vogel | John Hoare | Laurie Lowe | Mike Edmonds | Nathan Mansfield | Omar | Sabrina Malheiros | Sean Khan

London-based multi-instrumentalist and leftfield thinker Sean Khan has been working under the radar on his second album, and what a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Mulo Francel: Mocca Swing

A 2CD set, one with the saxophonist-leader’s (a member of world music’s Quadro Nuevo) quartet and the other, a collaboration...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2018

Tord Gustavsen: The Well

Jarle Vespestad | Mats Eilertsen | Tord Gustavsen | Tore Brunborg

It came as something of surprise that after an impressive trilogy of albums in the trio format, when his compositional...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2012

Charlie Parker: Integrale Vol 8: Laura

The estimable plan to present all of Bird in chronological order reaches 1950, with the Hank Jones quartet, the Granz...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Josephine Davies: Satori

Dave Whitford | Josephine Davies | Paul Clarvis

Just as in a card game blow-hard bluffers can risk overplaying their hands, so in music hard-blowing jazzers are sometimes...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017

Henri Texier Quartet Invite/Invites Joe Lovano: Paris-Batignolles

Henri Texier | Jack Mahieux | Joe Lovano | Louis Sclavis | Philippe De Schepper

Across the past five decades Henri Texier has helped to shape the developing aesthetic of European jazz. He's also performed...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2015

Lorenzo Feliciati: Elevator Man

Aidan Zammit | Alessandro Gwis | Antonio Jasevoli | Armando Croce | Chad Wackerman | Claudio Corvini | Cuong Vu | DJ Skizo | Duilio Ingrosso | Gianluca Plamieri

Anyone who’s heard virtuosic and versatile Italian bassist Lorenzo Feliciati with his no less than four other RareNoiseRecords bands Naked...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Free Nelson Mandoom Jazz: Awakening of a Capital

It says here this Scottish sax-bass-drums trio are ‘developing the crossroads between free jazz and doom/sludge rock’ and it's hard...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015