According to the Sound: Prism-a-Ning

Adam King | Adam Parry-Davies | Chad Lefkowitz-Brown | Gary Alesbrook | Jake Goldbass | James Carter | James Morton | Mike Rodriguez | Otto Hashmi | Patrick Case

Hailing from Birmingham and Bristol respectively, the keyboardist Adam Parry-Davies and guitarist-programmer Patrick Case went through a long, rigorous process...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Richie Beirach: Leaving

Richie Beirach

Now aged 75, pianist Richie Beirach made an album with the same title in 1976, a duo set with reeds...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: May/2023

Conic Rose: Heller Tag

Bertram Burkert | Franziska Aller | Johannes Arzberger | Konstantin Döben | Silvan Strauß

“Coming from a jazz background,” Berlin trumpeter Konstantin Döben reflects, “I had to work up the courage to write something...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2023

Gabriel Latchin Trio: Viewpoint

Gabriel Latchin | Jeremy Brown | Joe Farnsworth

Pianist Latchin has been around for a while now and remains one of our most consistently rewarding players. This is...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023

US4: My Scandinavian Blues (A Tribute to Horace Parlan)

Adam Nussbaum | Horace Parlan | Jimmi Roger Pedersen | Sinne Eeg | Thomas Clausen | Tomas Franck

This international venture, recorded in Denmark and filmed by a German company, celebrates the music of Horace Parlan. The colleague...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2016

Nels Cline & Julian Lage: Room

Julian Lage | Nels Cline

Cline has helped bring improvisatory fire to Wilco, one of the finest US rock bands extant, while maintaining his jazz...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2015

Roamer: Lost Bees

Lauren Kinsella | Matthew Halpin | Matthew Jacobson | Simon Jermyn

Roamer are an improvising Irish quartet who reside in Berlin, Brooklyn, London and Dublin; and they make a point of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2022

Dee Dee Bridgewater: Midnight Sun

André Ceccarelli | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Ira Coleman | Thierry Eliez

Despite the wildly differing treatments, ranging from the sumptuous orchestral setting of Johnny Mercer’s title track (from Dear Ella) to...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2012

Jan Lundgren Trio: Flowers of Sendai

This Swedish pianist has worked at the top level of European jazz and here is in trio with an elegant,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Aruan Ortiz Trio: Live In Zurich

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor

About three years ago, this writer was asked by Cuban pianist Ortiz to do the liner notes for an album...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2018