Till Brönner: The Movie Album

The suave trumpet superstar plays slushy jazz interpretations of cinema classics with guests including Gregory Porter. ‘Cinema Paradiso’ and ‘Forbidden...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Johanna Burnheart: Burnheart

Boz Martin-Jones | David Swan | Joanna Burnheart | Jonny Wickham | Noel Langley

Burnheart is a German classical talent now living in London, whose conversion to jazz was refracted through Berlin techno. As...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2020

Australian Art Orchestra: Closed Beginnings

Erkki Veltheim | Lizzy Welsh | Peter Knight | Reuben Lewis | Tariro Mavondo | Zoë Barry

Australian Art Orchestra has always been a broad church. Founded in 1994 by the visionary composer-pianist Paul Grabowsky, the contemporary...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2021

Wayne Krantz: Good Piranha Bad Piranha

Keith Carlock | Nate Wood | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre | Wayne Krantz

Same songs done twice, with different trios. Well, kind of: the annoyingly talented Wood swaps drums for bass in the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015

Theo Trio

Julie Tippetts | Keith Tippett | Theo May

It is always a joy to hear the inventive partnership of vocalist Julie Tippetts and piano player Keith Tippett reunited...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2012

Danketsu 9: Towards A Walk In The Sun

Ang Wilson | Dylan Fujioka | Jason Adams | Kelly Coats | Ken Moore | Mallory Soto | Noah Guevara | Patrick Shiroishi | Pauline Lay

Led by saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi, this nonet's uninterrupted 47-minute live composition runs likes a tapestry of tonal rivulets, meandering and...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: September/2019

Billie Holiday: The Complete 1952-1957 Small Group Studio Sessions

Billie Holiday

Featuring over six hours of music, this 5CD retrospective from Masterworks collects together material from 10 albums recorded by the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2014

Charles Mingus: Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection

Bobby Jones | Booker Ervin | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Clarence Shaw | Dannie Richmond | Don Ellis | George Adams | Gunther Schuller | Horace Parlan

Compared to the stifling effect of Sony's blanket coverage of Dave Brubeck, their holdings of Mingus are quite modest. Now...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

Wayne Escoffery: The Only Son of One

Adam Holzman | Han Glawischnig | Jason Brown | Orrin Evans | Ricky Rodrigues | Wayne Escoffery

The ‘One’ of the title references his single-parent mother who swapped Walthamstow for New York when the saxophonist was eight...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2012

Sidsel Endresen/Stian Westerhus: Didymoi Dreams

Sidsel Endresen | Stian Westerhus

Endresen is one of Europe's most extraordinary vocalists: a voice-asinstrument exponent who has taken singing away from song and even...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: September/2012