Nikolaj Hess: Spacelab & Strings

Anders Christensen | Caecilie Balling | Christian Ellegaard | Jakup Lützen | Josefine Opsahl | Mikkel Hess | Nikolaj Hess

Hess is a Danish pianist-composer in his mid-fifties who, among other things, teaches at the famous Rhythmic Conservatory and has...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2021

Mario Biondi: Brasil

Altair Martins | Andre Siqueira | Daniel Conceicão | Daniel Jobim | Davi Moraes | Ivan Lins | Kassin | Mario Biondi | Marlon Sette | Pedro Sá

Recorded at Marini in Rio de Janeiro under the production auspices of three times Latin Grammy winner Mario Caldato plus...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Laura Jurd's Dinosaur: To The Earth

Conor Chaplin | Corrie Dick | Elliot Galvin | Laura Jurd

Though Laura Jurd has kept on raising the high bar she set all the way back on her Landing Ground...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

California Ramblers: Up and At’Em

Important 1920s sides by Ed Kirkeby's New York all stars (the Dorseys, Red Nichols etc) who had nothing to do...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto: Live at the Berlin Jazztage 1966

Astrud Gilberto | Chuck Israels | Gary Burton | Roy Haynes | Stan Getz

This previously unissued concert by the Getz quartet with Gary Burton divides into what are in effect two distinctly different...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2021

AP Big Band: Plays Radiohead

Aarón Pozón | Alejandro Mateos | Ernesto Millán | Fran Sánchez | Guillermo Baez | Javier Martínez | Jordi Bailarín | Jorge Vistel | Juan Pedro ‘Pucho’ Martin | Luis Soler

Clive Deamer, drummer for Get the Blessing and sometimes Radiohead, once told me how jazz figured in the latter's thinking,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2021

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Black Staat Mater

Ellen Brekken | Heldvig Mollestad Thomassen | Ivar Loe Bjørnstadt

If the idea of free metal sounds like an interesting prospect, then hang on tight as Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2016

Howard Alden/Andy Brown: Heavy Artillery

This New York and Chicago guitarist have had a 15 year partnership and here swap warm Django-inspired bebop licks on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Roy Ayers: Jazz Is Dead 02

Roy Ayers

Über-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad put A Tribe Called Quest in the hip-hop hall of fame by way of extensive beat-mining...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2020

Ellen Bødtker & Jan Eirik Vold: Summer Der Lite

Arve Henriksen | Eirik Raude | Ellen Bødtker | Jan Eirik Vold

Ellen Bødtker is a Norwegian harp virtuoso, while Vold is a Norwegian man of letters famous for his poetry and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2016