Fred Hersch and Julian Lage: Free Flying

Fred Hersch | Julian Lage

This album title is very attractive because flying is precisely what true jazz improvisers aim to do, using the momentum...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2013

Clark Tracey Quintet: Jubilation

Chris Maddock | Clark Tracey | Daniel Casimir | Harry Bolt | Henry Armburg Jennings

Reliability and consistency are generally not as highly valued by fans as they are by fellow musicians. But Tracey has...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2017

Oliver Lake: Impala

Brandon Ross | Gene Lake | Geri Allenn | Oliver Lake | Pheeroan ak Laff | Santi Debriano

When Oliver Lake formed the World Saxophone Quartet in 1977, it enjoyed remarkable success for a so-called avant garde group....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2022

Jamison Ross: All For One

Barry Stephenson | Chris Pattishall | Cory Irvin | Jamison Ross | Rick Lollar

A winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2012 and mostly known as a drummer on albums such...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2018

The Keith Tippett Group: You Are Here… I Am There

Alan Jackson | Bryan Spring | Elton Dean | Gary Boyle | Jeff Clyne | Keith Tippett | Mark Charig | Nick Evans | Phil Howard | Robert Wyatt

Originally released on the same dizzying label (Vertigo) as Black Sabbath, graced by a Roger Dean cover, and with Tippett...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2013

Gil Evans Orchestra: Plays The Music of Jimi Hendrix

Billy Harper | David Sanborn | Gil Evans | Hannibal Marvin Peterson | Ryo Kawasaki

This first Evans venture for a then-major label (RCA Victor) may have been intended by the producers as a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016

Betty Davis: The Columbia Years

Betty Davis | Joe Sample | Wilton Felder

Anybody with a passing interest in pop culture will know that ‘Miles’’ ex is really a wholly inadequate moniker for...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2016

Alex Cline's Flower Garden Orchestra: Oceans Of Vows

Alex Cline | Areni Agbabian | Brad Dutz | Brother Phap Hai | Brother Phap Khe | Chi Li | Duc Nguyen | G.E. Stinson | Jeff Gauthier | Maggie Parkins

Nels Cline's lightning-storm guitar soloing in one of America's finest rock bands, Wilco, has seen his renown eclipse that of...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2017

Mark Murphy: Playing the Field/Rah/That's How I Love The Blues

It's heresy in some quarters to say so, but Murphy is really a dreadful singer, mannered and out of tune,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Gerald Albright: G

The US saxophonist Albright, a leading practitioner of the so-called ‘smooth jazz’ phenomenon, continues to plummet the depths of its...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017