Aquarium: Places

Edward Perez | Godwin Louis | Jason Palmer | Kendrick Scott | Mark Turner | Mike Moreno

The 26-year-old pianist-composer Sam Leak is the man behind Aquarium, a quartet that a lot of critics picked up on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Christian Kobi: Atta!

Christian Kobi | Taku Sugimoto | Wakana Ikeda | Yoko Ikeda

Swiss saxophonist Christian Kobi is a supremely focused improviser and no surprise, perhaps, to find him associating with a group...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2018

Barb Jungr: Hard Rain – The Songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen

Barb Jungr | Clive Bell | Gary Hammond | Neville Malcolm | Richard Olatunde Baker | Simon Wallace | Steve Watts

Released on her own Kristalyn Records label, Hard Rain brings together 11 classic songs from the Dylan/Cohen songbooks. Investing everything...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2014

Robbie Lee & Mary Halvorson: Seed Triangular

Mary Halvorson | Robbie Lee

Mary Halvorson has long had the reputation of being among the most inventive guitar stylists in avantjazz, but here she...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2018

Bill Frisell: All We Are Saying

Bill Frisell | Greg Leisz | Jenny Scheinman | Kenny Wollesen | Tony Scherr

What luxury to be awash in so many Frisell recordings, especially as he’s tapped such rich musical veins of late....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2011

Livio Minafra 4et: Surprise!!!

Every now and then you hear something that reminds you forcefully of the dizzying distances jazz has travelled in the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2012

Reuben Fowler: Between Shadows

Alex Munk | Andy Greenwood | Brigitte Beraha | Callum Au | Dave Hamblett | Freddie Gavita | George Crowley | George Hogg | Gordon Campbell | Guy Barker

The 23-year-old trumpeter Reuben Fowler’s debut album on the Edition label represents part of his prize for winning the Kenny...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Jim Snidero: Strings

Billy Drummond | Cenovia Cummings | David Fink | Jim Snidero | Joyce Hamman | Kenji Bunch | Mark Feldman | Mary Wooten | Paul Gill | Paul Woodiel

Strings was first issued on Milestone (MCD 9326 2) two decades ago. Its reappearance now is welcome in that it...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Joe Farrell: Joe Farrell Quartet

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Joe Farrell | John McLaughlin

Re-releases of rare bona fide jazz classics don’t come around too often, so when they do grab them. This album...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013

Don Ellis: The Hindustani Jazz Orchestra Live at UCLA

Chuck Domanico | Dave Mackay | Don Ellis | Emil Richards | Gable Baltazar | Hari Har Rao | Steve Bohannon

Ellis had already been making a name for himself in jazz with albums like How Time Passes (1960) and New...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2022