Gerry Mulligan Quartet: In Concert

Ray Nance | Aaron Bell | Harry Carney | Lawrence Brown | Sam Woodyard | Al Williams | Johnny Hodges

It's very welcome to have further documentation of this particular Mulligan quartet, which existed for little more than a year,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2023

Steve Banks: Emboldened

Sam Crockatt | Rebecca Nash | Steve Banks | Henrik Jensen | Mark Whitlam

There are multiple meanings to Emboldened – it is, after all, the guitarist's debut recording, following recognition for his work...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: July/2023

Naïssim Jalal: Healing Rituals

Naïssim Jalal | Claude Tchamitchian | Clément Petit | Zaza Desiderio

Franco-Syrian, Victoire du Jazz-nominated composer and flautist Naïssim Jalal and her new quartet featuring long established double-bassist Claude Tchamitchian and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2023

The Nonidentical: Material Tropes

Ruth Goller | Seb Rochford | Ben Davis | Giulia Loi | Zachary Gvirtzman | Julie Kjaer | Maurizio Ravalico

Zac Gvi, Zachary Gvirtzman's musical alias, has been thinking all this time about 2011's London riots, remarkably the only mass,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2023

Kit Downes/PJEV/Hayden Chisholm: Medna Roso

Julijana Lesic | Lana Hosni | Gloria Lindeman | Hayden Chisholm | Kit Downes | Jovana Lukic | Zvezdana Ostojic

The piquant, close harmonies of the female a cappella choir PJEV are undoubtedly the central attraction on Medna Roso; a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2023

Malombo Jazz Makers: Malompo Jazz

Sometimes, it doesn't matter how good your music is, if luck goes against you, success may prove elusive. Such was...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2023

Béla Fleck: As We Speak

Zakir Hussain | Béla Fleck | Edgar Meyer | Rakesh Chaurasia

A meeting of the spirits that is hard not to welcome, but perhaps rather harder to enjoy to the utmost....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2023

Sylvie Courvoisier & Cory Smythe: The Rite of Spring – Spectre d’un songe

Sylvie Courvoisier | Cory Smythe

With a background in European classical music and more than two decades as a fixture on the New York downtown...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2023

Soft Machine: The Dutch Lesson

Roy Babbington | John Marshall | Mike Ratledge | Karl Jenkins

The title riffs around the titles of two tracks, ‘The French Lesson’ and ‘The German Lesson’, from the Softs’ then-current...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2023

The Jazz Doctors: Intensive Care

Dennis Charles | Rafael Garrett | Frank Lowe | Billy Bang

Two lost jazz treasures, resurrected courtesy of Mike Gavin's Cadillac label (which incidentally celebrates its 50th anniversary this year). Led...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2023