Rahel Talts: New and Familiar
This young Estonian pianist and composer is mostly based in Copenhagen these days, from whence she sallies forth on a...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: April/2025
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Expansions
For anyone who grew up in the jazz-funk belt of Kent, London and Essex in the 1970s and 80s, Expansions...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2025
Album Interview: Kizzy Crawford and Gwilym Simcock: Birdsong/Cân yr Adar
On Birdsong/Cân yr Adar, the gorgeous melodies of Kizzy Crawford combine with the exquisite arrangements and production of Gwilym Simcock...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2018
Album Interview: Lars Danielsson Liberetto: Cloudland
Lars Danielsson's Libretto have staked-out a corner of jazz for themselves where calm, thoughtful, melodically based improvisation prevails. The group...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2021
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
Mike Mainieri: Journey Thru An Electric Tube
Even in their 1980s heyday, fusion outfit Steps Ahead could be a touch on the glossy side – white-toothed purveyors...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2016
King Crimson: Three of A Perfect Pair
Adrian Belew | Bill Bruford | Robert Fripp | Tony Levin
With King Crimson dead and buried in 1974, the union of Belew and Fripp as Discipline in 1981 seemed to...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2016
Ollie Howell: Self-Identity
Ant Law | Duncan Eagles | Henry Spencer | Matt Robinson | Max Luthert | Ollie Howell
Ollie Howell swung through karmic extremes in 2009, distracted from the growing pain in his head by the patronage of...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2017
Shinya Fukumori Trio: For 2 Akis
Matthieu Bordenave | Shinya Fukumori | Walter Lang
Music can involve extreme compression: a swift succession of ideas expressed across a tight bandwidth only, leaving no space to...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2018
Jim Mullen: Volunteers
We're used to hearing guitar supremo Mullen in small groups, often with organ at their heart. This time he's chosen...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2019
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