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

Chick Corea: Tones for Joan's Bones

Chick Corea | Joe Chambers | Joe Farrell | Steve Swallow | Woody Shaw

This classy Japanese reissue of Corea's debut as a leader on LP for Herbie Mann's Vortex label, then distributed by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2014

Ran Blake/Claire Ritter: Eclipse Orange

Claire Ritter | Kent O'Doherty | Ran Blake

By coincidence, this new recording of Blake appears almost simultaneously with the archive material of his duo with Jeanne Lee...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2019

Mark Perry/Duncan Eagles: Road Ahead

Chris Nickolls | Duncan Eagles | Gareth Lockrane | Mark Perry | Max Luthert | Ola Onabule | Sam Leak

The saxophonist and co-leader of this quintet, Duncan Eagles, is known on the scene for his membership of the dynamic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Hugh Lawson/Richard Wyands: Jazzcraft Studio Recordings 1977-78

Ben Riley | Bob Cranshaw | David Lee | Hugh Lawson | Lisle Atkinson | Richard Wyands

The Danish label Jazzcraft seems to have been active during two visits to New York in the late 1970s, and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2013

Tubby Hayes Big Band: Rumpus – Live In North Finchley, London 1969

Bill Geldard | Brian Smith | David Horler | Greg Bowen | Harry Klein | Ian Hamer | Keith Christie | Kenny Wheeler | Les Condon | Louis Stewart

It has long been the ambition of many jazz musicians to either lead their own big band or record with...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2015