Bedmakers: Live in Berlin

Dave Kane | Fabien Duscombs | Mathieu Werchowski | Robin Fincker

The French-born reedsman Robin Fincker was a recognised figure on the vibrant young London scene during the noughties making his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2021

Mickey Baker: But Wild/Bossa Nova: Collective personnel

Armand Molinetti | Bill Hendricks | Charles Hernandez | Christian Garros | Claude Gousset | Daniel Humair | Dimas Sedicias | George Arvanitas | Hubert Rostaing | Leo Petit

Kentucky-born guitarist ‘Mickey’ Baker (1925-2012) saw himself originally as a jazz musician, touring with the likes of Lester Young and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2021

SKRIM: The Crooked Path

Gard Nilssen | Morten Qvenild | Ståle Storl⊘kken | Stian Westerhus

Featuring a veritable ‘who’s who’ of Scandi-jazz legends (Storl⊘kken and Westerhus you’ll know of course, Qvenild and Nilssen have plied...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Laurindo Almeida/Bud Shank: Brazilliance Vols 1 and 2

The progenitor of bossa nova in the USA, seven years before Getz/Jobim, this was later revived into the LA Four,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

Art Pepper: Smack Up

Art Pepper | Buddy Clark | Chet Baker | Frank Butler | Harold Land | Herb Geller | Jack Sheldon | Jimmy Bond | Mel Lewis | Paul Moer

No matter how turbulent was his private life, when it came to recording Art Pepper invariably measured up to the...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2018

Franco Ambrosetti: Lost Within You

Franco Ambrosetti | Jack DeJohnette | John Scofield | Renee Rosnes | Scott Colley | Uri Caine

There are those who, in the past, have sniped at the stellar company with whom the trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti has...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2021

Sensaround: Isotropes

Alister Spence | Raymond McDonald | Shoeb Ahmad

This is the third collaboration on record between the Australian pianist Alister Spence and Raymond McDonald, the Scots improviser and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2015

Chat Noir: Nine Thoughts For One Word

Alessandro Tomaselli | Daniel Calvi | J. Peter Schwalm | Luca Fogagnolo | Michele Cavallari

Chat Noir's electronic textures and rock vibe may not sit easily with the jazz vision of some. But the band...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2016

Erik Honoré: Heliographs

Norway's answer to Brian Eno mixes alt. pop-electronica and contemporary classical for his eerily hypnotic debut alongside contributions from vocalist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Ahleuchatistas: Arrebato

This North Carolina math-rock duo did enough to inspire John Zorn to record them for his Tzadik label in 2008,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017