Fattigfolket: Park

Gunnar Halle | Hallvard Godal | Ole Morten Sommer | Putte Johander

Fattigfolket is a Swedish/Norwegian collaboration based in Copenhagen. This delightful album makes interesting comparison with the work of Mostly Other...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2011

Simon Nabatov/Barry Guy/Gerry Hemingway: Luminous

Keenly atmospheric collective free-improv from a virtuosic line-up that gets the balance just right between pianist Nabatov’s unpredictable melody-driven twists...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Henry Spencer & Juncture: The Reasons Don't Change

Andrew Robb | David Ingamells | Henry Spencer | Matt Robinson | Nick Costley-White | The Guastalla string quartet

The word is already out on Henry Spencer for those who've witnessed him live. I Winner of the Best Newcomer...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

JD Allen: Lovestone

Gregg August | JD Allen | Liberty Ellman | Rudy Royston

This is JD's seventh album for Savant and, as on the previous release Radio Flyer, the trio has become a...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2018

Rosie Frater-Taylor: Bloom

Rosie Frater-Taylor

Lockdown has impacted musicians so many ways, but for Frater-Taylor, while acknowledging the tragedy at the heart of the pandemic,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2021

Lars Danielsson & Paolo Fresu: Summerwind

Lars Danielsson | Paolo Fresu

A beautiful melody eludes precise definition and so presents a knotty problem for jazz education; how do you teach a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2018

Kevin Haynes Grupo Elegua: Ajo Se Po

Kevin Haynes

Grupo Elegua, led by alto saxophonist and percussionist Kevin Haynes, released its third album, Ajo Se Po, in June. The...

Reviewed by Christine Hannigan in issue: September/2020

Miroslav Vitous Group:

Jan Christensen | John Surman | Kenny Kirkland | Miroslav Vitous

What startles here is the piano playing of Kirkland. Barely 25, he has a kick-ass attitude mixed with the vet's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014

VEIN: VEIN plays RAVEL

Andy Sheppard | Florian Arbenz | Florian Weiss | Martial In Al-bon | Michael Arbenz | Nils Fischer | Noah Arnold | Thomas Lähns

Less than a year after releasing The Chamber Music Effect, inspired by their lifelong love for classical music, Swiss trio...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2017

Romanovská Tichý Hrubý

Anna Romanovská | Michal Hrubý | Petr Tichý

This remarkable Czech winds-and-string strio's debut album lays a feast of a table of the unexpected before us. Hrubý's ‘Ach...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: October/2018