Gilfema: Three

Ferenc Nemeth | Lionel Loueke | Massimo Biolcati

All good things come round again. Three is the trio’s first album in a dozen years but there’s a nary...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020

Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra: Into Forever

Chris Cruiks | Gavin Barras | Keiko Kitamura | Lisa Mallett | Luke Fowers | Matthew Halsall | Rachel Gladwin | Sam Bell | Taz Modi

Gavin Barras’ double bass is the engine that drives this latest from Manchester-based trumpeter, Matthew Halsall. Each tune is built...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2015

Notilus

This French five-piece offer a peculiar sounding mixture of Mike Oldfield-esque arpeggiated synth and more cutting electronica with Milesian ideas...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Clifford Jordan: Complete Strata-East Sessions

Albert Heath | Bill Lee | Billy Hart | Billy Higgins | Cecil McBee | Cecil Payne | Cedar Walton | Charles Brackeen | Charlie Haden | Chief Bey

Despite working for Mingus and Max Roach among many others, Jordan never achieved the recognition he deserved for his tenor...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2014

Pulcinella: Bestiole

Daniel Casimir | Ferdinand Doumerc | Florian Demonsant | Frédéric Cavallin | Jean-Marc Serpin | Patrick Vaillant

Even now in the 21st century, it's hard to imagine a musical instrument more instantly and overwhelmingly evocative of France...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2014

Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet: Witchi-Tai-To

Bobo Stenson | Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Palle Danielsson

The Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet only made two albums – the other one was Dansere – but as Garbarek himself...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2019

Joe Pass: Sounds of Synanon

Pass fans will want his debut on vinyl after rehab, but striking as his playing is, it is just a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy: Onward and Upward

Ralph Peterson

This step-change release for Ralph Peterson, the 58 year-old Art Blakey-inspired drummer and bandleader, brings together no less than 14...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2020

Jane Ira Bloom/Mark Helias: Some Kind Of Tomorrow

Jane Ira Bloom | Mark Helias

Bloom has been turning out brilliant albums since the late 1970s and, for all that time, has played only soprano....

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2021

Arthur Blythe: Elaborations/Light Blue/Put Sunshine In It

Abdul Wadud | Alphonso Johnson | Arthur Blythe | Bob Stewart | Bobby Battle | Gerry Brown | Kelvyn Bell | Muhammed Abdullah | Paulinho da Costa | Paulinho Da Costa

The recent reissue of Blythe's mid-1970s output included the classic Illusions, and this batch of three reminds us that he...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2017