Uri Caine Ensemble: George Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue

Barbara Walker | Chris Speed | Jim Black | Joyce Hammann | Mark Helias | Ralph Alessi | Theo Bleckmann | Uri Caine

Definitely an album of two halves, this begins with a 22½ minute sextet adaptation of the Gershwin opus. This is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2013

The Kandinsky Effect: Synesthesia

This Paris-based power trio, led by the American saxophonist Warren Walker, sounds like a rocking-out version of now defunct punk-jazzers...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Martin Archer: Story Tellers

Anton Hunter | Corey Mwamba | Kim Macari | Martin Archer | Mick Somerset | Peter Fairclough | Stone-Lonergan

Yorkshire-born composer and musician Martin Archer made his name as a saxophonist on the UK free improv scene of the...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: October/2016

Huntsville: Pond

Ingar Zach | Ivar Grydeland | Tonny Kluften

Over the last decade or so, Norwegian trio, Huntsville, have forged a unique musical language that draws deeply from several...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2015

Patchwork Jazz Orchestra: The Light That Shines

James Davison

Gatherings of any scale having been outlawed these past months, you might have thought big bands had been banned. But,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2020

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