Kurt Rosenwinkel: Undercover (Live at the Village Vanguard)

Aaron Parks | Eric Revis | Greg Hutchinson | Kurt Rosenwinkel

Rosenwinkel's pure tone and unhurriedly graceful phrasing started building an audience in the 1990s, and though some of his storytelling...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2023

Chet Baker: Chet Sings!

Bob Neal | Bud Shank | Carson Smith | Chet Baker | Dannie Richmond | Dave Wheat | George Morrow | Jimmy Bond | Joe Mondragon | Kenny Drew

Perhaps for far too long Chet Baker the crooner has received a bad press. The fact that he played this...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2013

Paul Towndrow: Deepening the River

Paul Towndrow

Conceived as a suite to run continuously, this 57-minute composition falls into eleven sections, each of them to some extent...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2021

Anna Webber: Idiom

Adam O'Farrill | Anna Webber | David Byrd-Marrow | Eric Wubbels | Erica Dicker | Jacob Garchik | Joanna Mattrey | John Hollenbeck | Liz Kosack | Mariel Roberts

Vancouver-born composer and flautist-saxophonist Anna Webber's intrepidly personal music of recent years has plenty of jazz's improvisational momentum about it...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2021

Enrico Rava/Joe Lovano: Roma

Dezron Douglas | Enrico Rava | Gerald Cleaver | Giovanni Guidi | Joe Lovano

Enrico Rava, the 80-year-old Italian trumpet star whose expeditions include Miles-infused post-bop, free-jazz with Steve Lacy, and a few personal...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2019

Calviere-Hays-Le Fleming-Franchescini: Whole Lotta Love

Last year's Jazz Sabbath project, which saw keyboardist Adam Wakeman reinterpret Black Sabbath's monumental metal for jazz trio, was a...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2021

The Callum Au Big Band: Something's Coming

Barry Clements | Callum Au | Chris Eldred | Ed Richardson | Emma Smith | Freddie Gavita | Gareth Lochrane | Henry Armburg Jennings | Iain Mackenzie | Jim Gold

You have to admire a can-do attitude in a musician. Callum Au was barely out of diapers when he became...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2013

Kate Daniels: Atmospherics

Alec Dankworth | Graham Pike | John Etheridge | John Horler | Kate Daniels | Liran Donin | Mike Piggott | Sam Bailey | Tony Coe | Winston Clifford

After the Singing Detective comes a Singing Psychotherapist. By day, Kate Daniels walks the mean consulting rooms of north London's...

Reviewed by Brian Glasser in issue: March/2014

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Efflorescence Vol.1

Ivo Perelman | Matthew Shipp

Few artists have shown the courage of their convictions as tenor saxophonist Perelman has in the past two decades. Commitment...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2020

Robert Mitchell True Think: Hold The Light/The New Resistance

Alice Mitchell | Alice Zawadzki | Becca Stevens | Carleen Anderson | Deborah Jordan | Gillian | Gordon Wedderburn | Laura Perrudin | Lislotte Ostblom | Michael Olatuja

There has always been a strong socially– conscious element in the music of Robert Mitchell and on this multi-layered, ambitious...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023