Erik Truffaz Quartet: Lune Rouge

Arthur Hnatek | Benoît Corboz | Erik Truffaz | Marcello Giuliani

Veteran Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz wanted new ideas for Lune Rouge, so he invited young drummer Arthur Hnatek, a recent...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2020

Javon Jackson: Expression

Corcoran Holt | Javon Jackson | McLenty Hunter | Orrin Evans

For whatever reason, Javon Jackson has never really made the A lists of contemporary tenor players. Maybe it's his sound,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2015

Joey Alexander: Eclipse

Eric Harland | Joey Alexander | Joshua Joshua Redman | Reuben Rogers

Even Mozart, the quintessential musical child prodigy, couldn't lay claim to two Grammy-nominated albums by the age of 14. Bali-born...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2018

Romanovskà–Tichý–Hrubrý & Blažíková: Jsem Navždy Jedním Z Nás/I Am One of Us Forever

Anna Romanovská | Hana Blažíková | Michal Hrubrý | Petr Tichý

Double-bassist Petr Tichý is a chameleonic presence on the Prague jazz and hybrid improv scene. He teaches, plays jazz and...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: April/2022

Tom Ridout: No Excuses

Alexandra Ridout | Anastasia Stahlmann | Anita Kurowska | Anna Drysdale | Billy Marrows | Cecilia Bignall | Didier Osindero | Elliot Pooley | Flo Moore | Phelan Burgoyne

I know how it goes. You're straight out of music college with a couple of awards under your belt. It's...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2018

Teresa Brewer: The Songs Of Bessie Smith/It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Count Basie | Duke Ellington | Teresa Brewer | Thad Jones

As the jazz critic Nat Hentoff writes in the original liner notes, “I can't recall any evolution quite like that...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015

Meilana Gillard: Dream Within A Dream

David Lyttle | Meilana Gillard | Neil O'Loghlen

I've yet to find out why a London-born, Ohio-raised, NYC-educated saxophonist now makes her home in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim. But...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2017

Laila Biali

Ambrose Akinmusire | Ben Witman | George Koller | Laila Biali | Larnell Lewis | Mike ‘Maz’ Maher | Sam Yahel

The Vancouver-born vocalist, pianist and songwriter Laila Biali serves up an impressive ACT debut with a combination of mellifluous vocals,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2018

Anders Aarum: Shakin' Our Souls

The Norwegian pianist-keyboardist is your typical atypical Norwegian jazz musician knowing no musical boundaries and his latest album, with a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2018

THE SEEN: Archive: Volumes I-V, 2005-2009

Angharad Davies | Ashley John Long | Ben Owen | Benedict Drew | Bertrand Denzier | Burkhard Beins | David Toop | Dominic Lash | Graham Halliwell | Jane Dickson

Presented in a fancy oblong metal box, with sleeve notes by Michael Rosenstein, Paul Margree, Brian Olenick, Andrea Dellapiana and...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2018