Album Interview: Norma Winstone/Glauco Venier/Klaus Gesing: Dance Without Answer

Glauco Venier | Klaus Gesing | Norma Winstone

On their third album for ECM, following the Grammy nominated Distances (2007) and Stories Yet To Tell (2009), British jazz...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2014

Morrissey Mullen: Life On The Wire/Morrissey-Mullen

Carol Kenyon | Chris Fletcher | Damon Butcher | Danny Schogger | Dick Morrissey | Gavin Wright | Guy Barker | Jess Bailey | Jim Mullen | Joe Hubbard

Okay. Sacrilege time. The Morrissey-Mullen axis will forever be revered while individually their careers illustriously cut across Brit Jazz, rock...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2016

Aldevis Tibaldi/London Jazz Ensemble: Twentysix Three

Aldevis Tibaldi | Chris Gale | John Eacott | Liam Dunachie | Paul Taylor | Richard Sadler

This sleekly-conceived, coolly- executed disc from London-based, Italian-born saxophonist Aldevis Tibaldi is something of a throwback a very welcome throwback,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2016

Miles Davis: On The Air 1958-1959

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Gil Evans orchestra | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland | Wynton Kelly

Many of these seven off-air recordings were originally on bootleg LPs, the best-known material being the frequently excerpted TV session...

Reviewed by Brain Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Schlippenbach Trio: Features

Alexander von Schlippenbach | Alexander Von Schlippenbach | Evan Parker | Paul Lovens

The trio of Schlippenbach, Parker and Lovens has been a working unit (albeit intermittently) for the past 45 years, a...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2015

Robert Mitchell True Think: Hold The Light/The New Resistance

Alice Mitchell | Alice Zawadzki | Becca Stevens | Carleen Anderson | Deborah Jordan | Gillian | Gordon Wedderburn | Laura Perrudin | Lislotte Ostblom | Michael Olatuja

There has always been a strong socially– conscious element in the music of Robert Mitchell and on this multi-layered, ambitious...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Nat ‘King’ Cole: Four Classic Albums

This is Cole in transition from singer/ leader of his trio (represented here on the Penthouse Serenade album, making the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Jimi Tenor & UMO: Mysterium Magnum

Abdissa Assefa | Heikki Tuhkanen | Ilkka Mattila | Jaska Lukkarinen | Jimi Tenor | Jouni Järvelä | Kasperi Sarikoski | Mikael Långbacka | Mikko Hassinen | Mikko Mustonen

The Finnish multi-musician and composer Lassi Lehto aka Jimi Tenor has previously worked with Afrobeat legend Tony Allen and Belgian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Aldo Romano: Inner Smile

Aldo Romano | Baptiste Trotignon | Enrio Rava | Thomas Bramerie

Aldo Romano is a no-frills Italian-born, French-based drummer who's been a lynchpin in bands such as those of Henri Texier...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Grace Fox: Eleven O’Seven

Alexis Fox | Bryana Crockett | Gina Benalcazar Lopez | Grace Fox | Hailey Brinnel | Jade Elliott | Janelle Finton | Kal Ferretti | Kellin Hanas | Laura Orzehoski

Grace Fox is still a student at the Manhattan School of Music, but she is clearly ambitious and used social...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2022