Omar Puente: Best Foot Forward

Aaron Liddard | Al McSween | Bob Birch | Byron Wallen | Caroline Loftus | Dennis Rollins | Denys Baptiste | Flavio Correa | Jimmy Martinez | Joost Hendryx

2009's From There To Here marked the arrival of the Cuban violin virtuoso on the British jazz scene, and this...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2016

Pigfoot: 21st Century Acid Trad

Chris Batchelor | Liam Noble | Oren Marshall | Paul Clarvis

The album title looks like an ironic dig at those hastily invented sub-genres claiming to be the new way forward...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic II: Norwegian Woods

Bugge Wesseltoft | Knut Reiersrud | Morten Qvenild | Pål Hausken | Roger Arntzen | Solveig Slettahjell

Producer Siggi Loch's imaginatively curated Jazz at the Berlin Philharmonic series have been a deserved and recurring success, attested by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014

GoGo Penguin: Man Made Object

Chris Illingworth | Nick Blacka | Rob Turner

GoGo Penguin’s surging, anthemic sound has built a growing, enviably young audience as unsure and uncaring as them as to...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2016

Max Nagl Trio: Moped

The Austrian saxophonist Nagl, a highly prolific recording artist, pays tribute to singer Henry Rollins with propulsive yet playful sax-keys-drum...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

Helena Kay's Kim Trio: Golden Sands

Calum Gourlay | David Ingamells | Helena Kay | Peter Johnstone

Helena Kay emerged from Guildhall garlanded with awards and her 2018 debut album Moon Palace showcased a remarkably confident player...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Rez Abbasi: Django-Shift

Michael Sarin | Neil Alexander | Rez Abbasi

Django-Shift should be listened to alongside Diminishing Blackness, the splendid Cherry Red Records boxset that emphasised Reinhardt the composer. Narratives...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2020

Mark Whitfield: Live & Uncut

Ben Allison | Billy Drummond | Mark Whitfield

This live recording from Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan was made using a single binaural microphone. “This technique places the...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

James Morrison: A to Z of Jazz

A ‘live’ guided jazz tour (with commentary) over 2 CDs by this Australian trumpeter who with the er, swingin' Melbourne...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Szun Waves: Earth Patterns

Jack Wylie | Laurence Pike | Luke Abbott

Szun Waves’ sense of cosmic spirituality loosely compares to The Comet Is Coming, with the latter’s rave apocalypse replaced by...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2022