Gary Bartz & Maisha: Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions

Al MacSween | Axel Kaner-Lidstrom | Gary Bartz | Jake Long | Shirley Tetteh | Tim Doyle | Twm Dylan

Ever since his headline slot at We Out Here Festival last summer, US sax great Gary Bartz had been enjoying...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: May/2020

Bob James & Nathan East: The New Cool

Bob James

Like the proverbial horse and carriage, James and East go together like the best of marriages. It could of course...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2016

Mammal Hands: Animalia

Jesse Barrett | Jordan Smart | Nick Smart

If the musicians Matthew Halsall welcomes onto Manchester's Gondwana label share an MO, it's for meditatively circling passages, rhythmic drive...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2014

Daniel Herskedal/Marius Neset: Neck of the Woods

Daniel Herskedal | Marius Neset | Svanholm Singers

While the jazz world awaits Marius Neset's imminent follow up to last year's highly-rated Golden Xplosion, here's a little appetiser...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Darius Brubeck Quartet: Years Ago

Darius Brubeck | Dave O'Higgins | Matt Ridley | Wesley Gibbens

Brubeck describes the title tune – written by South African saxophonist Duke Makasi and reminiscent in mood and melody of...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: April/2017

Ben Wolfe: From Here I See

Ben Wolfe | Cyrus Beroukhim | Donald Edwards | Greg Hesselink | JD Allen | Kenji Bunch | Marcus Strickland | Orrin Evans | Owen Dalby | Russell Malone

Wolfe’s previous CD, recorded at Smalls, was very much a live date. Here, in Systems Two studio, everything is much...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2013

Bill Laurance & Michael League: Keeping Company

Bill Laurance | Michael League

Longtime members of maximalist fusion ensemble Snarky Puppy, Bill Laurance and Michael League, have established unexpected new ground in their...

Reviewed by Ammar Kalia in issue: December/2024

Wolfgang Haffner: Heart of the Matter

Bruno Müller | Céline Rudolph | Dominic Miller | Eythor Gunnarsson | Götz Alsmann | Nicolas Fiszman | Sebastian Sudnitsky | Till Br'nner | Wolfgang Haffner

Heart of the Matter is a logical continuum of Shapes and Round Silence in its use of subtle electronic tone...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2012

Frank Sinatra: In The Wee Small Hours

The highlight of the Sinatra/Nelson Riddle collaboration, cut for Capitol in 1954-55, this is the epitome of the ballad-singing Frank,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2018

Adam Bałdych Quintet with Paolo Fresu: Poetry

Adam Bałdych | Dawid Fortuna | Krzysztof Tys | Marek Konarski | Michał Barański | Paolo Fresu

With this album, Poland’s most striking violin player since Michal Urbaniak has arrived at the discovery many jazz virtuosi have...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2021/2022