Kang Tae Hwan/Midori Takada: An Eternal Moment

Not an exactly relaxing album, the first 41-minute track of shed-building percussion, birdlike twittering and atonal random honking is something...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Rachel Musson: Dreamsing

Rachel Musson

With so little opportunity for collaboration, instrumentalists have gone down the solo route, One such musician-composer is London-based experimental saxophonist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2021

Album Interview: Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble: The Spirit of Trane

Enzo Zirilli | Frank Harrison | Gilad Atzmon | Yaron Stavi

Fifty years since his death, Coltrane's spirit lives on through the jazz works of many artists, not least Gilad Atzmon....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017

Shez Raja: Gurutopia

Alex Stanford | Chris Nickolls | Mike Stern | Monika Lidke | Pascal Roggen | Randy Brecker | Shez Raja | Steve Pringle | Vasilis Xenopoulos

The ever ebullient Raja must have grinned from ear to ear to have recorded with two of his fusion heroes,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2016

Toots Thielemans: Bluesette

Three sessions from the Belgian nonagenarian harmonica and guitar player show him at the height of his powers in the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

Trevor Watts: The Lockdown Solos

Trevor Watts

Trevor Watts shows his jazz roots are still a major part of his playing as he storms through this powerful...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: July/2020

Ian Brighton: Now And Then

Derek Bailey | Frank Perry | Ian Brighton | Marcio Mattos | Nicky Heinen | Paul Brighton | Philipp Wachsmann | Trevor Taylor

Forty years. That’s one hell of a hiatus between albums, but evidently an iota in the erosion of the prevailing...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: June/2016

Keshav Batish: Binaries in Cycle 1

Aron Caceres | Keshav Batish | Lucas Hahn | Shay Salhov

Keshav Batish, drummer, tabla and sitar virtuoso, is equally versed in Hindustani music and jazz. Here, he blends the two...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2021

Wynton Marsalis: The Music Of America

Ben Wolfe | Cassandra Wilson | Eric Reed | Farid Barron | Gideon Feldstein | Herlin Riley | James Carter | Joe Temperley | Kent Jordan | Marcus Printup

Note absence of the word jazz in the title. One could argue that, although he is an embodiment of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012

Terence Blanchard & The E-Collective: Breathless

Charles Altura | Donald Ramsey | Fabian Almazan | JRei Oliver | Oscar Seaton | PJ Morton | Terence Blanchard

The same group gave a somewhat underwhelming performance at last year's Tampere Jazz Happening and though this recording is a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2015