Steve Cole: Smoke And Mirrors

Smooth Jazz, although now confined to the niche, is painfully, yet somehow reassuringly, still with us; one of those still...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Album Interview: Kit Downes & Tom Challenger: Vyamanikal

Kit Downes | Tom Challenger

The idea of a ‘genius loci’, or spirit of place, permeates these recordings of church organ, saxophone and indomitable avian...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: August/2016

Fred Hersch Trio: Ten Years/6 Discs

Eric McPherson | Fred Hersch | John Herbert

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Fred Hersch Trio, whose personnel has remained constant throughout, Palmetto have released in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Coryell Mouzon: Back Together Again

Alphonse Mouzon | John Lee | Larry Coryell | Philip Catherine

Back together again, as in reviving the protagonists' fruitful partnership in Eleventh House, but this woeful recording bares little comparison...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014

King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King: An Observation By King Crimson

Greg Lake | Ian McDonald | Jakko Jakszyk | Mel Collins | Michael Giles | Peter Sinfield | Robert Fripp

There’s no doubting In the Court of the Crimson King’s iconic status as a rock, indeed ‘progressive’, album. Those of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2020

Indigo Mist: That the Days Go By and Never Come Again

Cuong Vu | Douglas Niemela | Ivan Arteaga | Joshua Parmenter | Luke Berman | Richard Karpen | Shih-Wei Lo | Ted Poor

There's nothing that whets the appetite for digging into a new release quite like discovering that it features a ‘live...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2014

Tim Hagans & The NDR Big Band: A Conversation

Tim Hagans

Tim Hagans is one of the few musicians to have played with both Stan Kenton and Woody Herman (in the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2021

Portico Quartet: Monument

From acoustic buskers to digital clubsters, Portico Quartet still have the Hang as their identifiable sonic signature but now sample...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

The Fringe: 40 Years on the Fringe

Bob Gullotti | George Garzone | John Lockwood

No saxophonist unpicks the standard repertoire quite so incisively as George Garzone, author of The Triadic Chromatic Approach. But for...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2013

Oscar Peterson: Exclusively For My Friends

Bobby Durham | Ed Thigpen | Louis Hayes | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown | Sam Jones

The six-volume Exclusively For My Friends set forged new standards of sound recording when it was originally released on vinyl...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016