Mark Helias Open Loose: The Signal Maker

Mark Helias | Tom Rainey | Tony Malaby

American bassist Mark Helias has played with the likes of Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and Muhal...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2015

Exoterm: Exits Into A Corridor

Jim Black | Kristoffer Berre Alberts | Nels Cline | Rune Nergaard

For a band with no shortage of trapped-animal screams, Exoterm stay remarkably lucid. Though fierce improv abounds, cacophony never arrives....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2019

Bobbie Gentry: The Windows of The World

Bobbie Gentry | uncredited musicians

What's the enigmatic creator of ‘Ode To Billie Joe’ and ‘Fancy’ doing in Jazzwise then? A good question, and one...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2021

Tina May with the Steve Plews Trio: Telling Jokes

Gavin Barras | Johnny Hunter | Steve Plews | Tina May

Any album which takes as its inspiration the late, great Mark Murphy's stunning 2007 Verve recording Love Is What Stays...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Dave Bailey: One Foot in the Gutter

Brilliant Clark Terry, outstanding Curtis Fuller and Horace Parlan on fine form in drummer Bailey's all-star sextet. So what's not...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016

Szilárd Mezei Septet: Cet

Andrea Berendika | Bogdan Rankovic | Branislav Aksin | Ervin Malina | István Csík | Máté Pozsár | Szilárd Mezei

Szilárd Mezei was born in 1974 in Senta, Serbia, which was then part of Yugoslavia, and where Mezei was a...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2016

Randy Weston Trio Plus CecilPayne: With These Hands/The Modern Art Of Jazz/Jazz A La Bohemia

Ahmed Abdul-Malik | Al Dreares | Cecil Payne | Randy Weston | Ray Copland | Wilbert Hogan | Willie Jones

Though initially the Riverside label concerned itself with reissuing classic recordings by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Steven Lugerner: For We Have Heard

Featuring the acclaimed maverick pianist Myra Melford, this US quartet is led by a multi-reedist taking inspiration for his absorbing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Oliver Nelson And Friends: Happenings/Soulful Brass

Like much of Nelson, accomplished and worth hearing, but moving towards his slick film music vein and away from his...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

Django Reinhardt: Djangology

The so-so 1949 Italian sessions (incorrectly suggesting they're Reinhardt and Grappelli's fi rst meeting since the war) formerly on RCA...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2011