Jaga Jazzist/Britten Sinfonia: Live with Britten Sinfonia

Andreas Mjøs | Britten Sinfonia | Christian Eggen | Erik Johannessen | Even Ormestad | Lars Hornveth | Line Hornveth | Marcus Forsgren | Martin Hornveth | Mathias Eck

A quick glance across the personnel above – and the abundance of multi-instrumentalists crammed into unclassifiable Norwegian nine-piece Jaga Jazzist...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: June/2013

Melvin Sparks: Live at Nectar's

Recorded just months before his death in 2011, the legendary Texas-born guitarist bids farewell with a classic, if rather routine,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Gary Lucas: The Essential Gary Lucas

Gary Lucas

The 36 vibrantly performed tracks that make up this career-spanning compilation of guitarist Gary Lucas' numerous recordings is the follow...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: March/2021

Ant Law: The Sleeper Wakes

Ant Law

Ant Law's fourth album as leader is unhurried and unmoved by fashion. Among his usual, strong quintet, Ivo Neame adds...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2020

Snorre Kirk Quartet: Going Up

Anders Fjeldsted | Jan Harbeck | Magnus Hjorth | Snorre Kirk | Stephen Riley

Imagine the classic Basie rhythm section re-constituted but without guitar and that’s what you hear on the opening, riff-based ‘Right...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2021

Joshua Redman: Walking Shadows

Brad Mehldau | Brian Blade | Dan Coleman | Joshua Redman | Larry Grenadier | Mehldau | Patrick Zimmerli

The presence of the 12-piece chamber orchestra makes the term ‘jazz strings’ appropriate, but the real story, at least from...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2013

Simians of Swing

Andy Davies | Ant Law | Benet Mclean | Benet McLean | Ivo Neame | Luca Boscagin | Polly Gibbons | Saleem Raman | Sam Leak

For those who frequent Ronnie Scott's upstairs jams on a Wednesday, the trumpeter Andy Davies will be a familiar face....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris Jazzwi in issue: October/2015

Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons

Ches Smith | Esperanza Spalding | JD Allen | Kris Davis | Marc Ribot | Nels Cline | Terri Lyne Carrington | Tony Malaby | Trevor Dunn | Val Jeanty

Pianist-composer Kris Davis can be found among a small coterie of contemporary New York underground scene experimentalists, including Ingrid Laubrock,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

Seldom do recordings of previously unissued material from the past demand jazz history be re-written. Live in Europe 1969 Vol....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2013

NES: Ahlam

Hailing from Valencia, NES is an unusual bare-boned vocal-cello-percussion trio headed by French-Algerian singer Nesrine Belmokh who boasts a commanding...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018