Willem Breuker & Han Bennink: New Acoustic Swing Duo

Han Bennink | Willem Breuker

Listen closely to this session and you can hear history being made. Recorded a full five months before Peter Brötzmann’s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2020

Tony Barnard’s International Jazz Collective: The Australian Suite

A galaxy of mainstream jazzers from Australia and UK (Jim Watson and Roger Beaujolais among them) perform this Aussie guitarist’s...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Mette Juul: There is a Song

The Danish singer-songwriter Mette Juul's collaboration with Blue Note trumpet star Ambrose Akinmusire in New York has blossomed well and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Hasaan Ibn Ali: Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album

Art Davis | Hassan Ibn Ali | Kahlil Madi | Odean Pope

At first sight, you might think this is one for collectors of obscurities. The pianist and composer Hasaan Ibn Ali...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2021

Sammy Figueroa And His Latin Explosion: Urban Nature

Alexander Pope Norris | Ed Calle | Gabriel Vivas | John Michalak | Jose Gregorio Hernandez | Norman Negroni | Sammy Figueroa | Silvano Monasterios

It's sad. Ray Barretto's gone. Mongo Santamaria's gone. Sammy Figueroa is now one of the last of the great latin...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Dave Bass: NYC Sessions

A committed if over familiar kind of US straightahead quartet session led by Cincinnati pianist-composer Dave Bass but with the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Torben Waldorff: Holiday on Fire

An ex-US, now Swedish-based, guitarist-composer showcases his enigmatic Metheny-derived originals in a quintet featuring his wife Maggi Olin on piano,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Art Tatum: The Greatest Piano of Them All

The plethora of late recordings that Norman Granz produced by Tatum make charting a way through them difficult, but this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

Ivo Perelman & Arcado String Trio: Deep Resonance

Ivo Perelman | Mark Dresser | Mark Feldman | William H Roberts

New York-based, Brazilian-born saxophonist Ivo Perelman's last pre-Covid date in London brought him together with several local singers and string...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/2020

Orchestre National De Jazz: Europa Oslo

Alexandra Grimal | Eric Echampard | Fabrice Martinez | Fidel Fourneyron | Hans Petter Blad | Hugues Mayot | Jean Dousteyssier | Maria Laura Baccarini | Olivier Benoit | Paul Brousseau

France's publically funded, flagship jazz orchestra has explored the works of Robert Wyatt, Astor Piazzolla and collaborated with John Hollenbeck...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017