Bill Evans: With The Flutists (What's New/Nirvana)

Bill Evans | Chuck Israels | Eddie Gomez | Herbie Mann | Jeremy Steig | Marty Morell | Paul Motian

Another well-filled reissue, combining two of the more unusual albums in Evans’ discography. The Jazz Collectors label clearly sees the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2010

Album Interview: John Escreet: The Unknown

Evan Parker | John Escreet | John Hébert | Tyshawn Sorey

The New York-based Brit expat pianist John Escreet was so inspired by the enterprise that had evolved from his 2014...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2016

Jimmy Forrest: Four Classic Albums

Three albums with rhythm, plus a big band set, this is a representative selection of the tenorist’s early 1960s work,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette's six-month tenure as a member of the Bill Evans Trio – he left to heed the call of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2020

The Tubby Hayes Quartet: Free Flight

Mick Pyne | Ron Mathewson | Tony Levin | Tubby Hayes

There was a time when the only representation of Hayes on record was to be found in secondhand vinyl shops...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2020

I Like to Sleep: Daymare

Amund Storløkken Åse | Nicolas Leirtrø | øyvind Leite

Young musicians can soar with a rising current of innovation beneath their wings, playing direct and instinctive music, if not...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: June/2020

Duke Ellington: Jazz Party

Alexey Marti | Amari Ansari | Andrew Baham | Christopher Butcher | David Pulphus | Delfeayo Marsalis | Detroit Brooks | Dr. Brice Miller | Gregory Agid | John Gray

A reasonably well-done reissue of the famous 1959 Columbia album on which Dizzy Gillespie and Jimmy Rushing guest with an...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2020

David Torn: Only Sky

David Torn

If you want to know what David Torn, a film composer and guitarist who has worked with David Bowie, Ryuichi...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2015

Wild Card: Beast from the East

Adam Glasser | Alistair White | Andrew Noble | Barnaby Dickinson | Clement Regert | Denys Baptiste | Duncan Eagles | Emilia Mårtensson | Graeme Flowers | Imaani

The core trio of Wild Card are themselves a formidably fun band, but the buzz and sparkle of their releases...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2020

Andrew Woodhead: Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & electronics

Alex Frye | Alicia Gardener-Trejo | Andrew Woodhead | Angie Wakefield | Charlotte Keeffe | Graham Kelly | Helen Papaioannou | Jonathan Thorne | Lee Griffiths | Matthew King

In his famous journal, the 14th century Moroccan scholar and explorer, Ibn Battuta, relates how, on hearing the bells of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2021