Lauren White: Ever Since The World Ended

Lauren White

On this fifth album from LA-based vocalist White, all of the admirable qualities she possesses seem to be perfectly encapsulated...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2021

Keith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert

Keith Jarrett

From the man who probably singlehandedly put the totally improvised solo piano recital on the map in the 1970s and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Grupo Um: Starting Point

Lelo Nazario | Ze Eduardo Nazario | Zeca Assumpção

Arguably the premier curator of Brazilian jazz in Britain, if not further afield, FarOut returns with yet another reissue of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2023

Tommy Shepard/Richard Wess: Shepard's Flock/Music She Digs the Most

From mid-1950s New York, two medium-sized mainstream bands, with pianist Wess's neat playing and tight eight-piece band having a slight...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Kenny Garrett: Do Your Dance

Corcoran Holt | Kenny Garrett | McClenty Hunter | Mista Enz | Ronald Bruner | Rudy Bird | Vernell Brown

Although Garrett has played a fair amount of electric music throughout his lengthy career, notably with Miles Davis in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2016

Amina Bakara & The Red Microphone

Spoken-word artist Amina Bakara (wife of the late Amira) fires off a stark, stinging polemic against African-American injustices and a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2018

André Hodeir: Essais

Columbia Legacy brought out some of this material (reviewed June 2017), but this collection is more comprehensive in a 2CD...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2018

Jonathan Silk: Fragment

Andrew Bain | Andy Bunting | Andy Johnson | Ayse Osman | Beth Bellis | Chris Maddock | Eileen Smith | Emily Tyrrell | Joe Wright | John Fleming

Silk, a regular drummer with Soweto Kinch, gratefully used the BBC's financial support to study composition with Maria Schneider and...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2017

Zoot Sims/Bob Brookmeyer: Stretching Out

Bruno Chevillon | Dominique Pifarély | Donny McCaslin | Gerald Cleaver | John Hebert | Roberto Dani | Samo Salamon

Brookmeyer on top form in 1958 in informal KC-style settings, with his Kansas City Revisited as the bonus album alongside...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2014

Vilde & Inga: Silfr

The absorbing follow-up to the Sidsel Endresen-mentored Norwegian violin-double bass duo's ECM 2015 debut Makrofauna offers a minimalist-classical soundscape poised...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017