I Like to Sleep: Daymare
Amund Storløkken Åse | Nicolas Leirtrø | øyvind Leite
Young musicians can soar with a rising current of innovation beneath their wings, playing direct and instinctive music, if not...
Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: June/2020
Duke Ellington: Jazz Party
A reasonably well-done reissue of the famous 1959 Columbia album on which Dizzy Gillespie and Jimmy Rushing guest with an...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2020
David Torn: Only Sky
If you want to know what David Torn, a film composer and guitarist who has worked with David Bowie, Ryuichi...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2015
Wild Card: Beast from the East
The core trio of Wild Card are themselves a formidably fun band, but the buzz and sparkle of their releases...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2020
Andrew Woodhead: Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & electronics
In his famous journal, the 14th century Moroccan scholar and explorer, Ibn Battuta, relates how, on hearing the bells of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2021
Harry Allen and Scott Hamilton: 'Round Midnight
Chuck Riggs | Harry Allen | Joel Forbes | Rossano Sportiello | Scott Hamilton
Hearing these two together, like master and pupil, at Norwich recently was a joy. And so it is here. Neither...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2012
Paul Grabowsky Sextet: The Bitter Suite
Andrew Robson | Cameron Undy | James Greening | Jamie Oehlers | Paul Grabowsky | Simon Barker
Paul Grabowsky is one of the major figures in the Australian jazz scene, but it would be fair to say...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2015
Soul Rebels Brass Band: Unlock Your Mind
Perhaps the Rebels most song-centred release, the brass collective still retain their dance energy, drawing deeply as they do on...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2011
Whit Dickey/Mat Maneri/Matthew Shipp: Vessel In Orbit
Mat Maneri | Matthew Shipp | Whit Dickey
Drummer Whit Dickey – who power-drove the David S Ware Quartet throughout the early 1990s – has released some of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: May/2017
Eddie Condon/Bud Freeman: Complete Commodore & Decca Sessions
Commodore, the first US independent label to specialise in small-group jazz, started operations the night after Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
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