Spirit In The Dark: Now Is The Time

Anders Engen | Audun Erlien | David Wallumrød

Organ Club nights at Oslo's Cosmopolite Scene let these Norwegian session veterans hone their Hammond trio craft. The result moves...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2016

Duke Ellington: Treasury Shows, Vol. 16

Two full–length broadcasts from October and November 1945, plus material from 1943, add high quality Ellington performances to the commercially...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Eri Yamamoto Trio: Life

This New York-based pastoral jazz pianist-composer's 10th release as leader again showcases her longstanding trio of bassist David Ambrosio and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Lynne Arriale Trio: Chimes of Freedom

EJ Strickland | Jasper Somsen | KJ Denhert | Lynne Arriale

What first strikes you when listening to a Lynne Arriale recording is the sheer beauty of her piano sound: the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2020

New Faces: Straight Forward

Producer Marc Free reaches back into the Posi-Tone recording catalogue to select tunes for a New York sextet full of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2018

Foxes Fox: Live at the Vortex

Evan Parker | John Edwards | Kenny Wheeler | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Steve Beresford

How many records merely hint at the kind of empathy and interplay heard here but leave the listener wondering like...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: July/2012

Keith Jarrett: At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings III

Gary Peacock | Jack DeJohnette | Keith Jarrett

Originally released as a part of At The Blue Note, an expensive 6CD box set released in 1995 that went...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Søren Kristiansen/Thomas Fonnesbaek: The Touch: Plays The Music Of OP and NHØP

Søren Kristiansen | Thomas Fonnesbæk | Thomas Fonnesbaek

Perhaps it’s a welcome development that, as well as the repertory movement addressing the repertoire of valued jazz composers such...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2022

Stuart McCallum & Mike Walker: The Space Between

Mike Walker | Stuart McCallum

Here's a gentle gift from two of our more accomplished string fellows. McCallum, one time of Cinematic Orchestra, largely lends...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2017

Les Baxter: African Jazz Plus Jungle Jazz

Baxter's all-star band does jungle and latin material with minimal compositional content, mainly designed to present ‘thrilling adventures in stereo’,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016