Flow Trio: Set Theory – Live at The Stone

Charles Downs | Joe Morris | Louie Belogenis

Some musicians just exude seriousness – and Joe Morris is one of them. He'd already earned a reputation as one...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2011

Christian Scott: Christian aTunde Adjuah

Christian Scott | Corey King | Jamire Williams | Kenneth Whalum III | Kris Funn | Lawrence Fields | Louis Fouche IIII | Matthew Stevens

Trumpeter Christian Scott's new album Christian aTunde Adjuah is not only the title of his new 2-CD set but also...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Giovanni Guidi Trio: This Is The Day

Giovanni Guidi | Joao Lobo | Thomas Morgan

Having missed the chance to catch the trio live in London in April, I'm left with a rather variable, if...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2015

Bill Laswell: Means Of Deliverance

Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell's been-there-done-that CV stretches from the mainstream (Mick Jagger and Sting) to the outer reaches (William Burroughs, Peter Brötzmann,...

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

Kevin Figes Quartet: Changing Times

Emily Wright | Jim Blomfield | Kevin Figes | Mark Whitlam | Thad Kelly

Not many people namecheck Henry Cow these days. Not enough people, IMHO. But Bristol-based saxophonist Kevin Figes does in talking...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2020

Peter Appleyard: Sophisticated Ladies

A bevy of Canadian jazz singers head a sprightly 84-year-old ex-Benny Goodman vibes legend's standards quintet....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Bill Evans: Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980)

Bill Evans

There's a huge amount of good music here, as indeed there should be from a compilation covering a quarter-century. A...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2021

Neil Cowley Trio: Touch and Flee

Evan Jenkins | Neil Cowley | Rex Horan

As with another widely admired piano trio, The Necks, Neil Cowley Trio tends to get coverage in the jazz media...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

John Scofield: Swallow Tales

Bill Stewart | John Scofield | Steve Swallow

John Scofield met Steve Swallow at Berklee half a century ago, in a student-teacher connection that became a playing partnership...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

Joe O'Connor/Theo Carbo/Tim Green: Eclogue

Joe O'Connor | Theo Carbo | Tim Green

Perhaps it has something to do with the huge, empty skies and landscapes of the Australian outback, but the music...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2021