Troyka: Moxxy

Chris Montague | Kit Downes

Troyka freshened up the whole notion of UK electric jazz with the very promising self-titled debut in 2009. They've gone...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012

Callum Au and Claire Martin: Songs and Stories

Callum Au | Claire Martin | Mark Nightingale

Recorded at London's Stadium and Air Studios last year and released on the Copenhagen-based Stunt Records, composer, arranger and trombonist...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2020

Yelena Eckemoff: Better Than Gold And Silver

The Russian pianist-composer’s chamber jazz-ish take on verses from the book of Psalms (two CDs, with and without vocal) is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Huw Warren Trio: Everything In Between

Dudley Phillips | Huw Warren | Zoot Warren

Huw Warren, the Welsh pianist-composer, has key influences so wide-ranging it's impossible to box him in. Among others, his work...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place

Brandon Seabrook | Ingrid Laubrock | Mazz Swift | Michael Formanek | Tom Rainey | Tomeka Reid

Inspired by the Pulitzer-prizewinning writings of environmental journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, much-lauded German saxophonist/composer Ingrid Laubrock composed most of the music...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2023

Curtis Counce: Four Classic Albums

Though many associate ‘California Cool’ with a coterie of players central to Shorty Rogers, there also co-existed a small, but...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2020

Human Feel: Gold

Andrew D'Angelo | Chris Speed | Jim Black | Kurt Rosenwinkel

Seattle-raised reeds-player Andrew D'Angelo met saxophonist Chris Speed and drummer Jim Black in high school, and formed the Human Feel...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019

Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia with the NYJO: Bulletproof

Peter Lemer

Such is the confluence of so many streams in Thompson's life that this exuberant release celebrates, you're already cheering before...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2021

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & The MaXx: Live

Mette Rasmussen

Recorded live at the Molde jazz festival in July 2018, this exhilarating take-no-prisoners set finds former Trondheim students Petter Kraft,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2021

Noah Stoneman: Anyone's Quiet: Let it Rain to You

Luca Caruso | Noah Stoneman | Will Sach

To that current extraordinary new wave of young UK jazz pianists (Deschanel Gordon, Sultan Stevenson, Eddie Gripper et al) we...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2023