Neil Cowley Trio: The Face of Mount Molehill

Evan Jenkins | Leo Abrahams | Neil Cowley | Rex Horan

For pianist-composer Neil Cowley, improvisation has always been a bit of fun in a live situation but an artistic no-go...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

STR4TA: Aspects

Bluey Maunick

Bluey Maunick and Gilles Peterson's relationship goes back at least a decade, when they worked together guiding Incognito's chart-topping career:...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: June/2021

Album Interview: Jah Wobble & Bill Sharpe: Kingdom Of Fitzrovia

Bill Sharpe | Fridrik Karlsson | Jah Wobble | Jonas Persson | Marc Layton-Bennett | PJ Higgins | Sean Corby

The combo of Wobble and Sharpe may catch the headlines – Sharpe's best known for the big haired jazz pop...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2013

Art Themen/Dave Barry Quartet: Hanky Panky

Art Themen | Dave Barry | Dave Green | Gareth Williams

Barry says a session was cancelled so instead he corralled Themen, Williams and Green, all of whom were available at...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2022

Chris Speed Trio: Respect For Your Toughness

Chris Speed | Chris Tordini | Dave King

New York-based saxophonist Chris Speed’s career stretches back to the early 1990s and includes work with Claudia Quintet and Tim...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2020

Michael Mantler: Comment C'est

Christoph Cech | David Helbock | Himiko Paganotti | Max Brand Ensemble | Michael Mantler | Sun Yi | Tibor Kövesdi

In principle, this reviewer has nothing against the idea of jazz-identified performers and writers preferring to move into the realm...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2018

Aparat

Aparat, the multi-keyboard led duo of ex-Rip Rig and Panic founder Mark Springer and Penguin Café frontman Arthur Jeffes, merge...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Kristjan Randalu & New Wind Jazz Orchestra: Sisu

Aleksander Paal | Allan Järve | Allan Kaljaste | Andrus Karjel | Artur Kiik | Ben Monder | Ingrid Jensen | Ingvar Leerimaa | Jason Hunter | Johannes Kiik

The pianist-composer Kristjan Randalu is one of the better-known contemporary jazz ambassadors from the small yet open-minded jazz scene in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2023

Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling

Cecil Brooks | Danny Ray Thompson | Dave Davis | Dave Hotep | Elson Nascimento | Farid Barron | James Stewart | Knoel Scott | Marshall Allen | Michael Ray

Since becoming the musical director of Sun Ra's Arkestra in 1993, long standing member Marshall Allen has diligently orbited Ra's...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: December/2020

Hannes Riepler: Wild Life

Chris Cheek | Hannes Riepler | James Maddren | Oli Hayhurst

For his third CD to date, the London-based Austrian born guitarist Hannes Riepler employs his quartet as opposed to the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016