Mulgrew Miller and Klüver's Big Band: Grew's Tune

Claus Waidtløw | Dennis Mackrel | Jakob Buchanan | Jens Klüver | Jesper Riis | Matt Harris | Michael Bladt | Morten Lund | Morten Ramsbøl | Mulgrew Miller

The back story to this band is that non-playing conductor Klüver was a classical clarinettist who, because of his...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2013

Berserk: Berserk!

Cristiano Calcagnile | Eivind Aarset | Fabrizio Puglisi | Gianluca Petrella | Jamie Saft | Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari | Lorenzo Feliciati | Pat Mastelotto | Sandro Satta | Simone Cavina

Berserk! is precisely that, a bonkers mix of Goth death thrash electro-opera spliced with ambient grooves. Born from a collaboration...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2013

Charlie Wood: Lush Life

Dave Holland | Nikki Iles | Stan Sulzmann

Charlie Wood's seventh album Lush Life is his second release on the Memphis-based independent label, Archer Records, following his 2009...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2020

Clark Terry/Bob Wilber: Blowin' The Blues Away

Billy Strayhorn | Bob Wilber | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Dick Wellstood | Duke Ellington | George Duvivier | Ozzie Bailey | Panama Francis | Wendell Marshall

The original album of this title was a single LP of Clark and Bob with Wilber's old sidekick Dick Wellstood...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Warped Dreamer: Live at the Bimhuis

Arve Henriksen

This group, comprising Henriksen and Westerhus from Norway, and Dumoulin and Verbruggen from Belgium, are captured live on Amsterdam's famed...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021

Dans les arbres: Canopée

Christian Wallumrød | Ingar Zach | Ivar Grydeland | Xavier Charles

Collectively written, this may well come across as contemporary classical music. However, essentially it's an introspective improv approach by this...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: September/2012

Joe Sample: Ashes To Ashes

Joe Sample

Sample's passing last year was another sad loss, making it all the harder to listen again to his music without...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2015

Peter Jones: Utopia

This follow-up to his 2013 debut One Way Ticket To Palookaville sees vocalist Peter Jones pick up where he left...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2015

Francesco Cataldo: Spaces

Clarence Penn | David Binney | Erik Friedlander | Francesco Cataldo | Salvatore Bonafede | Scott Colley

Francesco Cataldo was born in Sicily. He is a musician of great sensitivity and, as a prolific composer his work...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2013

Lionel Loueke: The Journey

Christi Joza Orisha | Cyro Baptista | Dramane Dembele | Etienne Charles | Ferenc Nemeth | John Ellis | Lionel Loueke | Mark Feldman | Massimo Biolcati | Patrick Messina

Jazz has always been the music of the movement of peoples, the soundtrack to the journeys, some chosen, more often...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019