Ken Fowser: Standing Tall

First release as leader for the young tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser with an unpretentiously derivative New York-based quintet with compositions...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Sebastian Lexer + Steve Noble: Muddy Ditch

Sebastian Lexer | Steve Noble

A pair of live dealings from two prodigious parameter-breakers captured at that perennial sanctuary of the awkward and abstruse, Cafe...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: May/2016

Gwyneth Herbert: Letters I Haven&t Written

Corrie Dick | Gwyneth Herbert | Ned Cartwright | Rob Luft | Sam Burgess

This collection of self-penned songs from Gwyneth Herbert, album number seven following her brilliant 2013 release The Sea Cabinet, coincides...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2018

Lokkhi Terra: Cubangla

Kishon Branch

London-based collective Lokkhi Terra have been blending sounds from around the globe since 2010. They describe their music as Bangla-Afro-Latin-Jazz,...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2020

Tom Scott: Tom Scott & The L.A. Express/Tom Cat/New York Connection

Bob James | Eric Gale | Gary King | George Harrison | Hugh McCracken | Joe Sample | John Guerin | Joni Mitchell | Larry Carlton | Larry Nash

A three-CDs-for-one package that captures the heady time when rock, jazz and, lummee, commercial success briefly coalesced. The eponymous debut...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014

Joe McPhee/John Butcher: At The Hill Of James Magee

Joe McPhee | John Butcher

Drawing parallels between music and the environment in which it is made can sometimes be inappropriate. But ‘The Hill’ in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019

Eric Dolphy: Berlin Concerts

Benny Bailey | Buster Smith | Eric Dolphy | George Joyner | Pepsi Auer

Only issued for the first time in 1990, this is actually the earliest evidence of Dolphy’s brief 1961 visit to...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2018

Oscar Peterson: Plays The Cole Porter Songbook

Alvin Stoller | Barney Kessel | Ed Thigpen | Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown

This is a typically well-researched and intelligently assembled compilation from the people who process their productions through Andorra. It leads...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2022

Daniele Cavallanti and the Brotherhood Creative Trance Music Ensemble: Faces and Tales

Andrea Di Biase | Carlo Actis Dato | Daniele Cavallanti | Emanuele Parrini | Fabrizio Puglisi | Gianluigi Trovesi | Lauro Rossi | Luca Calabrese | Silvia Bolognesi | Tiziano Tononi

Some people like to play it straight and keep things simple. Not so the Italian saxophonist Daniele Cavallanti, who, to...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2014

Matt Anderson Quartet: Rambling

Aubin Vanns | Jay Davis | Matt Anderson | Nick Malcolm | Owen Dawson | Peter Lee | Will Harris

Young saxophonist Matt Anderson won the Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition in 2017 and you can hear why. The writing...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: August/2018