JoVia Armstrong: The Antidote Suite

Amr Fahmy | Damon Warmack | Isaiah Sharkey | Jeff Parker | JoVia Armstrong | Lesley Deshazor | Nicole Mithcell | Teh'Ray Hale | Yaw Ageyman

The Detroit-raised drummer, percussionist and educator JoVia Armstrong self-released her debut album Fuzzy Blue Robe Chronicles back in 2009, prompting...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2022

Biréli Lagrène and Sylvain Luc: Best Moments

Biréli Lagrène | Sylvain Luc

Biréli Lagrène first made an impact on the jazz scene when he was 13, releasing Routes to Django: Live in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Tara Minton and Ed Babar: Two For The Road

Ed Babar | Lilia Iontcheva | Stan Sulzmann | Tara Minton

This fine duo album from Australian harpist/vocalist Tara Minton and London bassist Ed Babar celebrates a long-standing musical collaboration. Penned...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2022

Josh Nelson: Discoveries

This is already young West Coast-based pianist/composer Josh Nelson’s fifth album as leader and he puts an unexceptionally breezy LA...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011

Thumbscrew: Multicolored Midnight

Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Tomas Fujiwara

Anniversaries mean little musically, but there’s something reassuring in Thumbscrew marking a decade of collaboration with their seventh release together....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2022

Merritt Brunies: Complete Recordings 1924-6

The 17 rare sides by New Orleansv cornetist Brunies, are complemented by ten additional 1920s rarities....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Stan Getz: Stan Getz Plays

Bill Crow | Bob Whitlock | Duke Jordan | Frank Isola | Jimmy Raney | Jimmy Rowles | Max Roach | Stan Getz

This replicates a number of tracks featuring the quintet that Getz toured with during 1952 (including guitarist Jimmy Raney and...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2012

Cecil Taylor: Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!

Cecil Taylor

If the charge that Cecil Taylor sounds like an explosion in a piano factory is worth answering at all, then...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: August/2012

Revival Room

Adam Fairhall | Johnny Hunter | Mark Hanslip

It’s hard to say why the organ trio has largely remained resistant to the lure of the avant-garde. Larry Young...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021

The Filthy Six: The Fox

Amos Trice | Clarence Jones | Dupree Bolton | Elmo Hope | Frank Butler | Harold Land | Herbie Lewis | Leon Petties | Martin Banks

Led by trumpeter Nick Etwell, these slinky retro groovesters, featuring B3-er Pete Whitaker, work within very stylistic confines of funk-soaked...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012