Trevor Watts String Ensemble: Cynosure
If collective free improvisation summons images of furrowed brows and unsmiling aural assaults then stick this platter in your play...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2016
Neil Ardley & The New Jazz Orchestra: On The Radio: BBC Sessions 1971
With Humphrey Lyttelton's endearingly stumbling announcements and a veritable fantasy football league of early 1970s jazz musicians associated with various...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: August/2017
Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission
Over half the material contained in this indispensible four-CD box was originally created for the Tempo label under the keen-eared...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2011
Roger Garftt, Nikki Iles, John Williams Octet: In All My Holy Mountain
The fusion of poetry with jazz has been like a furtive undertow in the music's development. The idea appears and...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017
Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974-2016
Little needs to be said of percussionist Tony Oxley’s credentials as a figurehead of improvised music – either through his...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022
Partikel: String Theory
London based trio, Partikel, have been playing together for over six years, including a running regular weekly jam session at...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2015
Karl Jenkins: Penumbra II
The not-for-profit Jazz in Britain team have done UK jazz a huge service by releasing previously unissued material, mainly from...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023
Andreas Varady
That the Slovakian-born guitarist is only 17 and a precociously gifted technician is the hook here. It starts promisingly with...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014
Masabumi Kikuchi: Wishes/Kochi
The recent unearthing of Miles Davis's 1970 Fillmore dates provided a thrilling glimpse of the birth of the gritty funk-jazz-rock...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2014
Kansas Smitty's: Things Happened Here
Alec Harper | Dave Archer | Ferg Ireland | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Pete Horsfall | Will Cleasby
Kansas Smitty's is a Hackney bar as well as a band, a musical utopia whose name was conjured from speakeasy...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2020
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