Bill Laurance Trio: Live At Ronnie Scott's
Bill Laurance | Jonathan Harvey | Marijus Aleksa
Generously, Snarky Puppy keyboardist Bill Laurance dedicates this beautifully-recorded (perhaps it’s a tad too pristine – a bit more of...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2020
Jakob Bro: Uma Elmo
Arve Henriksen | Jakob Bro | Jorge Rossy
This album, composed by Danish guitarist Jakob Bro, is an antithesis to fidget culture. It resets listening, and exhumes a...
Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: March/2021
Mat Maneri/Evan Parker/Lucian Ban: Sounding Tears
Evan Parker | Lucian Ban | Mat Maneri
Mat Maneri so often lends the distinctive cry-point tone of his microtonal viola improvisations to other people's projects that the...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: July/2017
New Focus: On Song
Saxophonist Wiszniewski and pianist Stevenson comprise New Focus; their earlier album was 2012 Scottish Album of the Year and earned...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2016
Skelton Skinner Allstars Septet: The Odd Couple
Functioning as a kind of break-out group from the Skelton-Skinner Big Band, this smaller line-up released a well-regarded first album,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2017
Duncan Eagles: Citizen
Dave Hamblett | David Preston | Duncan Eagles | Matt Robinson | Max Luthert
For close to a decade, saxophonist-composer Duncan Eagles has been a guiding influence on the structure-stretching cooperative trio Partikel, a...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2019
Stuart McCallum: Distilled
Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs | Þorgrímur Jónsson
Mancunian guitarist Stuart McCallum’s third solo album finds him building on and expanding the aesthetic he’s helped to develop as...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Jim Howard: Forever Between
Ant Romero | Attab Haddad | Jim Howard | Richard Bolton | Thad Kelly
After a jazz education at the Guildhall School of Music in 1990, trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Jim Howard returned to his...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2021
Tigran Hamasyan: An Ancient Observer
The Armenian jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan is a classic example of the globalisation/glocalisation trend in jazz today. As he showed...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017
Kenny Burrell Trio: A Night at the Vanguard
Burrell | Richard Davis | Roy Haynes
An underground favourite for many years, this laid-back live set from New York's Village Vanguard didn't set the jazz world...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2012
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