The Trio: Incantation: The Dawn Recordings 1970-1971

Alan Skidmore | Barre Phillips | Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Harry Beckett | John Marshall | John Surman | John Taylor | Kenny Wheeler | Malcolm Griffi ths

John Surman was in his headlong 20s when these sessions were recorded by the collective threesome known simply as The...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2018

Don Grolnick: Nighttown

Bill Stewart | Dave Holland | Don Grolnick | Joe Lovano | Marty Ehrlich | Randy Brecker | Steve Turre

Don Grolnick pretty much reached the top of his profession as a first-call New York studio musician in the 1970s...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2020

Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double: March

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

When drummer, composer and bandleader Tomas Fujiwara issued the first Triple Double recording in 2017, the ensemble configuration elicited as...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2022

Justin Swadbng: A Place to Be

A collaboration between saxophonist Justin Swadling and the Piatti String Quartet with classical tradition mixed with more contemporary extended instrumental...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Duke Ellington: My People (The Complete Show)

A cassette in Mercer Ellington's files has allowed the reconstruction of Duke's 1963 stage show in the most complete version...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012

Peter Knight and The Australian Art Orchestra: Crossed and Recrossed

Adrian Sherriff | Andrea Keller | Aviva Endean | Erkki Veltheim | Georgie Darvidis | Gian Slater | Jacques Emery | James Macaulay | Joe Talia | Lizzy Welsh

Settle back and let the Australian Art Orchestra take you on a journey across an interior, through endless overlapping vistas...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2021

John Yao's Triceratops: How We Do

This trombonist-led New York quintet, featuring feral saxophonist Jon Irabagon, is an energetic yet slightly unfocused sweep across jazz idioms...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Jacob Karlzon 3: More

Don Pullen | Eddie Gomez | Giuseppi Logan | Milford Graves | Reggie Johnson

ACT is a glorious label and Jacob Karlzon is an undoubtedly impressive musician. But though it would be cheap to...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: September/2014

Jack Hylton And His Orchestra: Just Humming Along

Featuring vocalist Pat O'Malley, this collection draws attention to what was Britain's top-selling dance orchestra of the early 1930s, playing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Nesrine

A mesmerising young Algerian- French cellist-vocalist with a dynamic sense of spatial awareness in her music, with its emphasis on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2020