Mike Pride: Drummer’s Corpse/Birthing Days

Diverse simultaneous releases from an avant garde percussionist/neo-beat poet, from Brooklyn; the first includes a suite for avant percussion featuring...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Rakka Soutu: Lumpeela

This is great fun and played with real commitment; a Finnish sextet with an infectious sound combining such things as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Dave Pell: Four Classic Albums

The tenorist has already got one such collection on Avid and this adds to the set with two sessions from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Gary Peacock/Marilyn Crispell: Azure

Gary Peacock | Marilyn Crispell

Peacock is of course a known quantity, or certainly should be after 30 years on and off alongside Keith Jarrett,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2013

Arrigo Cappalletti Quintet: Hot Music

A more conventional disc release than usual for the prolific Russia-via-Devon based label, this veteran Italian pianist’s young quintet (featuring...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

The Byron Allen Trio

Maceo Gilchrist | Teddy Robinson | Byron Allen

‘Whatever happened to Byron Allen?’ asks keyboard player Don Pullen, lamenting the passing of the avant-garde scene, in Gary Giddins’...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: August/2013

Chet Baker: Chet Sings!

George Morrow | Russ Freeman | Red Mitchell | Shelly Manne | Carson Smith | Peter Littman | Jimmy Bond | Dave Wheat | Chet Baker | Bud Shank

Perhaps for far too long Chet Baker the crooner has received a bad press. The fact that he played this...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2013

Swedish Mobilia/Luca Aquino: Did You Hear Something?

An Italian guitar (Andreas Bolzoni) trio featuring Miles-influenced trumpeter Aquino as guest, in a more abstract, contemporary post-rock twist on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Joe Locke: Lay Down My Heart - Blue and Ballads Vol 1

Ryan Cohan | David Finck | Joe Locke | Jaimeo Brown

Joe Locke has a personal voice, fluency to spare and a sound that shimmers with the metallic soul of Milt...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2013

Kit Packham’s One Jump Ahead: One Foot in the Groove

“I’m a dinosaur looking back to another age,” sings the Caterham-based Packham unapologetically in the opener and the CD title...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013