Grand Union Orchestra: Made By Human Hands

Adrian Sherriff | Alison Limerick | Andres Lafone | Baluji Shrivastav | Cemal Akkiraz | Chris Biscoe | Claude Deppa | Courtney Pine | Fiona Burnett | Gail Ann Dorsey

Made by human hands, all right – a sprawling cast of crack musicians have crafted this celebratory recording, a work...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2022

Nat Steele: Portrait of the Modern Jazz Quartet

Dario Di Lecce | Gabriel Latchin | Nat Steele | Steve Brown

Given both its instrumentation and the album’s title it would be easy to assume that Steele’s new quartet is just...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Michel Petrucciani: The Montreux Years

Michel Petrucciani | Moroslav Vitous | with his quartet and sextet

Taken from four Petrucciani concerts in the 1990s from Montreux Festival director Claude Nobs’ private tape collection, this superbly-packaged two-LP...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2023

Houston Person: Something Personal

Houston Person’s style and sound go way back to that of Gene Ammons with hints of Ike Quebec, Eddie ‘Lockjaw’...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2015

Dominic J Marshall: Nomad's Land

Dominic J Marshall | Glenn Gaddum Jr | Hunrosa | Jamie Beet | Nathaniel Keen | Noa Lauryn | Septabeat

Dominic J Marshall, an Amsterdam-based, Scottish-born composer and versatile multi-keyboardist, has gone down well with the hip dance-jazz underground scene...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Mike Westbrook Concert Orchestra: Marching Song Vol 1 and 2 Plus Bonus

Alan Jackson | Alan Skidmore | Barre Phillips | Bernie Living | Brian Smith | Chris Laurence | Dave Holdsworth | Eddie Harvey | George Smith | Greg Bowen

Nearly 50 years on, Marching Song remains a seminal recording not only of the ‘Jazz Britannia’ era, but of any...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017

Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Kriegel Today!

Hans Glawisching | Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn | Jean-Paul Höchstädter | Jesse van Ruller | Jim McNeely | John Schröder | Martin Scales | Steffen Weber | Tony Lakatos

When the Gary Burton Quartet with Larry Coryell appeared at Berlin Jazz Days in November 1967, they may have been...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2020

Frank Wess: Magic 201

Frank Wess | Kenny Barron | Rufus Reid | Russell Malone | Wynard Harper

Kansas City tenorman Frank Wess, who died last October at the grand old age of 91, was best known for...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014

Tigran Hamasyan: Luys i Luso

Harutyun Topikyan | Tirgran Hamasyan | Yerevan State Chamber Choir

“Working with the rhythms was complicated for the choir. For instance in ‘Ov Zarmanali’ they are singing chords in 13/16...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2015

Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March On

Brandon Seabrook | Gerald Cleaver | Mary Halvorson | Ralph Alessi | Taylor Ho Bynum | Tomas Fujiwara

Batten down the hatches, this is a big one. The meat of March On is a 32-minute group improv that...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2023