Foxes Fox: Live at the Vortex

Evan Parker | John Edwards | Kenny Wheeler | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Steve Beresford

How many records merely hint at the kind of empathy and interplay heard here but leave the listener wondering like...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: July/2012

Keith Jarrett: At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings III

Gary Peacock | Jack DeJohnette | Keith Jarrett

Originally released as a part of At The Blue Note, an expensive 6CD box set released in 1995 that went...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Søren Kristiansen/Thomas Fonnesbaek: The Touch: Plays The Music Of OP and NHØP

Søren Kristiansen | Thomas Fonnesbæk | Thomas Fonnesbaek

Perhaps it’s a welcome development that, as well as the repertory movement addressing the repertoire of valued jazz composers such...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2022

Stuart McCallum & Mike Walker: The Space Between

Mike Walker | Stuart McCallum

Here's a gentle gift from two of our more accomplished string fellows. McCallum, one time of Cinematic Orchestra, largely lends...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2017

Les Baxter: African Jazz Plus Jungle Jazz

Baxter's all-star band does jungle and latin material with minimal compositional content, mainly designed to present ‘thrilling adventures in stereo’,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Max Nagl feat. Lol Coxhill

Lol Coxhill | Max Nagl

A bit of a mixed bag this: freeish saxophone playing punctuated with the odd musique concrète collage (‘Messer’) or burst...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2013

Tubby Hayes And Paul Gonsalves: Just Friends

Lumped a little clumsily together into a single CD here are two vinyl albums which evoked considerable national pride in...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2019

Caixa Cubo: Angela

Henrique Gomide | João Fideles | Noa Stroeter | Zé Leônidas

Not for nothing are Caixo Cubo regarded as one of the best electric jazz trios in Brazil, a country where...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2021

The Graham Bond Organisation: Wade In The Water

Alexis Korner | Big Jim Sullivan | Dick Heckstall-Smith | Ernest Ranglin | Ginger Baker | Graham Bond | Ian Hamer | Jack Bruce | John Hockridge | John McLaughlin

“This is what people have been waiting for!” exclaims Pete Brown, producer, and, vitally, longtime associate of so many of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2013

Helena Kay's KIM Trio: Moon Palace

David Ingamells | Ferg Ireland | Helena Kay

Helena Kay was a few years below me on the jazz course at London’s Guildhall School of Music. Even as...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: Feb/2019