Alex Riel/Stefan Pasborg: Drum Faces

Two drummers, the ever-reliable Danish veteran Alex Riel and young pretender Stefan Pasborg, lead an ensemble with an uncoordinated mix...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2014

Soft Machine: The Harvest Albums: 1975-1978 — Bundles

Alan Wakeman | Allan Holdsworth | John Etheridge | John Marshall | Karl Jenkins | Mike Ratledge | Rick Sanders | Roy Babbington | Steve Cook

Given the era and the label, Harvest being EMI's prog-rock arm, it's no surprise that this is the Softs squarely...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2019

Klaus Paier and Asja Valcic: Silk Road

Asja Valcic | Klaus Paier

Unlike their earlier collaboration, 2009's Deux, Croatian cellist Asja Valcic has contributed compositionally to add to the Austrian Paier's tunes...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: April/2013

Sarah Vaughan: Live in Berlin 1969

Eddy Pucci | Gus Mancuso | Johnny Veith | Sarah Vaughan

More good news for fans of ‘The Divine One’. Hot on the heels of last year's exceptional Live At Rosy's,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2017

Michael Nyman Band: Michael Nyman

Alexander Balanescu | Anne Barnard | Ben Grove | Evan Parker | Ian Mitchell | John Harle | Keith Thompson | Lucy Skeaping | Michael Nyman | Nick Hayley

Lummy, how those 30 years have flown since this first ‘proper’ debut from the Nyman band. It's now handsomely re-packaged...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2012

Gail Brand/Morgan Guberman: Dig a Ditch and Get in

UK-based avant garde trombonist Brand and American vocalist Guberman join forces after their last get together all of 10 years...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Karin Krog and John Surman: Songs About This And That

Bjorn Klakegg | Ivar Kolve | John Surman | Karin Krog | Terje Gewelt | Tom Oldstad

You won't be fooled of course by the disingenuous title: when the voices of Surman and Krog entwine as they...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2014

Etta Jones: So Warm/From The Heart

In the 1960s, Jones was Billie Holiday-lite; Oliver Nelson’s busy arrangements reinforce this, a shame because there’s fine singing amid...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Dick Hyman Trio: You’re My Everything

Jazz standard interpretations by a textbook, mainstream swinger with varied career highlights including being Woody Allen’s musical right hand man....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Alex Clarke Quartet: Only A Year

Alex Clarke | Clark Tracey | Dave Green | David Newton

Clarke is only in her early 20s, but is already a player of consequence. Having dropped out of music college...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023