Joel Harrison: Mother Stump

The prolific US country jazz-rock loving guitarist's quartet goes its own way on an unusual set of improv vehicles including...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Nitin Sawhney: OneZero

Aref Durvesh | Ashwin Srinivasan | Nitin Sawhney | Soumik Datta

Can it really be 35 years since the last live, direct-to-vinyl recording? This sad state of affairs is addressed by...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2013

Jesper Thilo Quartet: Swing is the Thing

Danish saxophone legend who has recorded with swing giants such as Hank Jones and Clark Terry both growls and purrs...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade?

Rodger Coleman | Sam Byrd

These guys have been bouncing ideas off one another for a while now, but with the successive releases of their...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: September/2017

Jarrod Lawson

Chrisopher Friesen | Ebon Bergeron | Fortnell Newton | Jans Ingber | Jarrod Lawson | Jay Koder | Joshua Corry | Leisa Hart | Maya Ayam | Steveland Swatkinds

‘File under soul’ says the music industry of the young American singer-songwriter, yet jazz is an integral part of this...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015

Joe McPhee & Evan Parker: Sweet Nothings (For Milford Graves)

Evan Parker | Joe McPhee

Two saxophone giants come together at the Chicago Cultural Center to pay homage to drummer and fine artist Milford Graves,...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Stanley Turrentine: Betcha

Compared to Turrentine's Blue Note work, this 1979 set with orchestra and singers is saccharine and cloying ’ definitely not...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014

Orchestra Nazionale della Luna: There's Still Life on Earth

Kari Ikonen | Manuel Hermia | Sebastien Boisseau | Teun Verbruggen

An orchestra that is really a quartet comprising two Belgians, a Finn and a Frenchman that came together on the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2020

Hymn: Silence, The Birds

This trio integrates Stockhausen-informed electronics with jazzy-folk acoustics, with veteran violinist Sylvia Hallett making play with a spinning bicycle wheel....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Russell Malone: Love Looks Good On You

Gerald Cannon | Rick Germanson | Russell Malone | Willie Jones III

Malone is the natural successor to Wes Montgomery and George Benson, a guitar stylist whose limpid touch and unruffled command...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2015