FIRE!: (without noticing)

Andreas Werliin | Johan Berthling | Mats Gustafsson

Their first statement since the 30-piece FIRE! Orchestra’s monumental Exit! was released at the beginning of this year, (without noticing)...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2013

Various: 3 Nights At Cafe Oto

Alexander v. Schlippenbach | Christof Thewes | Eddie Prévost | Evan Parker | John Edwards

Is it too fanciful to suggest that Cafe Oto is the new Village Vanguard? Just as, from the late 1950s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2015

Album Interview: Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio: Volume 2

Anthony Hamilton | Brandy | Casey Benjamin | Common | Derrick Hodge | Dwele | Emeli Sandé | Faith Evans | Glasper | Jill Scott

Needless to say the predecessor was a big, big album, making Glasper the go-to jazzer for a new generation of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013

Schlippenbach Trio: Warsaw Concert

Alexander von Schlippenbach | Alexander Von Schlippenbach | Evan Parker | Paul Lovens

One of the great – and most enduring – improv trios on mind-bendingly fine form. Schlippenbach is also known for...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2017

Steve Smith, Tony Monaco & Vinny Valentino: Groove: Blue

Steve Smith | Tony Monaco | Vinny Valentino

Smith pitched in a different context to how we usually hear him; not the funky fusioneer, not the big band...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2015

Go: Organic Orchestra & Brooklyn Raga Massive: Ragmala – A Garland Of Ragas

Abderahim Hakmoun | Abhik Mukherjee | Adam Rudolph | Alexis Marcelo | Arun Ramamurthy | Avram Fefer | Bala Skandan | Charles Burnham | Damon Banks | David Ellenbogen

Chicagoan percussionist Adam Rudolph has been a pioneer of ethnomusicological exploration since the 1970s. A former student of, and collaborator...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2019

Sextet of Orchestra USA: Mack The Knife

Mainly this gets its star rating because of Eric Dolphy and Jerome Richardson's dazzling saxophone playing, and this overcomes the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016

Tete Montoliu: Blues For Myself

Eric Peter | Peer Wyboris | Tete Montoliu

As with the Lucky Thompson set reviewed elsewhere, this trio recording was first issued on the Spanish Ensayo label and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2016

Tom Harrell: Number Five

Danny Grissett | Jonathan Blake | Tom Harrell | Ugonna Okegwo | Wayne Escoffery

Trumpeter Tom Harrell's long and highly respected career is marked by sound musical craftsmanship often enlivened by lyrical grace, all...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2012

Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette: The Ambiguity Manifesto

Fiery trumpeter-composer Taylor Ho Bynum's band formed of his contemporaries – Tomas Fujiwara and Mary Halvorson among them – wonderfully...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020