Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface
In June 2012 the Julia Hülsmann Trio became a quartet with the addition of Tom Arthurs on trumpet who stayed...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2025
Billy Marrows Grande Familia Sextet: Mount Tibidabo
Billy Marrows | Flo Moore | Mike Soper | Olli Martin | Tom Potter | Tom Ridout
Marrows plays with such lyrical melodicism and an easeful swing, you can’t help but be seduced into his charmed world....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2025
Bill Charlap Trio: And Then Again
Bill Charlap | Kenny Washington | Peter Washington
Hearing Bill Charlap in the flesh is a great experience. He seems to be doing very little but what pours...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024
Hamilton de Holanda and Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Collab
Gabriel Grossi | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Hamilton de Holanda | Joao Bosco
Virtuosity for its own sake can be a hiding to nothing, but when two absolute masters of their instruments get...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024
Alvin Queen Trio: Feeling Good
Alvin Queen | Carlton Holmes | Danton Boller
Queen, now 74, first made good in New York, before settling in Switzerland in 1979. Always impressive, he continues to...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2024
Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver (The 1959 European Tour Recordings)
Henry Gimes | Joe Harris | Kenny Clarke | Pete LaRoca | Sonny Rollins
In one of the short interviews included in these engrossing live recordings (mostly in Sweden, but also West Germany, France,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2024
Shelly Berg: Alegria
Carlitos Del Puerto | Dafnis Prieto | Melvin Butler | Shelly Berg
Pianist Berg has a long association with jazz education in Florida and now splits his time between Miami and Los...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2024
Nubya Garcia : Odyssey
Daniel Casimir | Joe Armon-Jones | Nubya Garcia | Sam Jones
This new album from the multi-award-winning tenorist, bandleader and composer, Nubya Garcia, which follows her 2020 release on Concord Jazz,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2024
Monika Herzig's Sheroes : All In Good Time
Camille Thurman | Gina Schwarz | Jamie Baum | Leni Stern | Monika Herzig | Reu Regev | Rosa Avila
Hopefully time will come when bands won’t feel the need to promote themselves as ‘all-female’. But Herzig's Sheroes remain proud...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2024
Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal: Catching Fire
Nikolai Hængsle | Ståle Storløkken | Terje Rypdal | Torstein Lofthus
Health and safety alert: when first activating this firebrand release you may wish to stand several yards back from your...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2024
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