Mal Waldron: Spanish Bitch
Fred Braceful | Isla Eckinge | Mal Waldron
Here's a real rarity. The second recording ever made for Manfred Eicher's fledgling ECM label (the first being Waldron's Free...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2012
Portico Quartet: Live/Remix
Cornelia | Duncan Bellamy | Jack Wyllie | Keir Vine | Milo Fitzpatrick
Portico is a group now virtually unrecognisable from their genteel, pure acoustic 2008 Mercury Prize-nominated debut Knee Deep in the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013
Mike Fletcher Trio: Vuelta
Jeff Williams | Mike Fletcher | Olie Brice
Following Birmingham-based saxophonist Mike Fletcher's graduation from his home town's conservatoire in 2005, he formed a big band, the Mike...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015
Rufus Harley: A Tribute To Courage
Billy Abner | James Glenn | Oliver Collins | Robert Kenyatta | Rufus Harley
Harley may forever be tagged as the ‘jazz piper’ but, as this enjoyable album shows, he was actually a multi-reed...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2014
Maria Kannegaard Trio: Sand i en Vik
Maria Kannegard | Ole Morten Vågan | Thomas Strønen
Recently nominated for a Norwegian Grammy for this new release, the Danish-born pianist-composer Maria Kannegaard's longstanding trio have continued to...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2021
Benn Clatworthy: What's Going On
Benn Clatworthy | John Donaldson | Matt Home | Simon Thorpe
The son of a sculptor and grandson of revue star Gertrude Lawrence, Clatworthy, born Hastings in 1955, leads something of...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2016
Anne Lenner with Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Orpheans: Her 26 Finest 1932-1941
Here's a glimpse into the ‘Golden Age of British Dance Music’, defined as ‘the elegant era of the late 1930s...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2023
Nils Petter Molvær: Switch
Erland Dahlen | Geir Sundstøl | Morten Qvenild | Nils Petter Molvær | Nils Petter Molvaer
Even from the time of Molvær's Khmer and Solid Ether from 1997 and 2000 respectively, when he burst onto the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2014
Indigo Kid III: Moment Gone in the Clouds
Calum Gourlay | Dan Messore | Gareth Lockrane | Tim Giles
On his third album recorded under the moniker Indigo Kid, the young guitarist-composer Dan Messore continues to hone a singular...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
The Drive: Can You Feel It?
We Are Busy Bodies follow last year's excellent Armitage Road by Heshoo Beshoo with another essential release from the mid...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021
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