California Ramblers: Up and At’Em

Important 1920s sides by Ed Kirkeby's New York all stars (the Dorseys, Red Nichols etc) who had nothing to do...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto: Live at the Berlin Jazztage 1966

Astrud Gilberto | Chuck Israels | Gary Burton | Roy Haynes | Stan Getz

This previously unissued concert by the Getz quartet with Gary Burton divides into what are in effect two distinctly different...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2021

AP Big Band: Plays Radiohead

Aarón Pozón | Alejandro Mateos | Ernesto Millán | Fran Sánchez | Guillermo Baez | Javier Martínez | Jordi Bailarín | Jorge Vistel | Juan Pedro ‘Pucho’ Martin | Luis Soler

Clive Deamer, drummer for Get the Blessing and sometimes Radiohead, once told me how jazz figured in the latter's thinking,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2021

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Black Staat Mater

Ellen Brekken | Heldvig Mollestad Thomassen | Ivar Loe Bjørnstadt

If the idea of free metal sounds like an interesting prospect, then hang on tight as Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2016

Howard Alden/Andy Brown: Heavy Artillery

This New York and Chicago guitarist have had a 15 year partnership and here swap warm Django-inspired bebop licks on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Roy Ayers: Jazz Is Dead 02

Roy Ayers

Über-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad put A Tribe Called Quest in the hip-hop hall of fame by way of extensive beat-mining...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2020

Ellen Bødtker & Jan Eirik Vold: Summer Der Lite

Arve Henriksen | Eirik Raude | Ellen Bødtker | Jan Eirik Vold

Ellen Bødtker is a Norwegian harp virtuoso, while Vold is a Norwegian man of letters famous for his poetry and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2016

FIRE!: (without noticing)

Andreas Werliin | Johan Berthling | Mats Gustafsson

Their first statement since the 30-piece FIRE! Orchestra’s monumental Exit! was released at the beginning of this year, (without noticing)...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2013

Various: 3 Nights At Cafe Oto

Alexander v. Schlippenbach | Christof Thewes | Eddie Prévost | Evan Parker | John Edwards

Is it too fanciful to suggest that Cafe Oto is the new Village Vanguard? Just as, from the late 1950s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2015

Album Interview: Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio: Volume 2

Anthony Hamilton | Brandy | Casey Benjamin | Common | Derrick Hodge | Dwele | Emeli Sandé | Faith Evans | Glasper | Jill Scott

Needless to say the predecessor was a big, big album, making Glasper the go-to jazzer for a new generation of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013