Lacuna: Talk on the Step

Steve Waterman | Lee Goodall | Dan Messore | Aidan Thorne | Ollie Howell

Former Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama student Dan Messore made a memorable impression last year with his debut...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2013

Gabriel Garrick Quintet: Sunlight

Sam Walker | Matt Ridley | Gabriel Garrick | Chris Nickolls | William Bartlett

Gabriel, son of the late Mike, stakes a claim to be his own man with this new quintet album (it’s...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2013

Oliver Nelson: Meet…/Main Stem

His arranging was so good, people forget that Nelson was a fine saxophonist, and jousting with Kenny Dorham or Joe...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Memnon: Sound Portraits of Ibsen Characters

The avant-garde folk-art improvising duo of highly rated Norwegian pianist Helge Lien and eerie vocalist Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer is inspired...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Noordpool Orchestra: Radiohead, A Jazz Symphony

A 42-piece orchestration of hits and album tracks from (almost every) jazz musician’s pet rock band that’s impressive in its...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Barry Harris: Newer Than New/Listen To Barry Harris

With the Lonnie Hillyer/Charles McPherson frontline that also worked with Mingus, this is a classy quintet, with a solo piano...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Jazz Crusaders: Freedom Sound/Lookin’ Ahead

The first two albums by this group of Houston emigrés, newly ensconced in the West, and laying down a marker...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Compassionate Dictatorship: Entertaining Tyrants

Jasper Høiby | Jez Franks | James Maddren | Tori Freestone

Buoyed by their signing to an indie label and backed by Jazz Services for a major tour, the irrepressible Dictators...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Nils Landgren Funk Unit: Teamwork

Joe Sample | Nils Landgren | Till Brönner | Magnus Lindgren | Magnum Coltrane Price | Andy Pfeiler | Jonas Wall | Robert Ikiz | Sebastian Studnitzky | Wilton Felder

After the melancholy delicacies of his excellent The Moon, The Stars and You project, Landgren returns to his beloved funk...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet: Here and Now/Another Git Together/… and John Lewis

Later editions of the Jazztet from 1960-2 with Harold Mabern and Cedar Walton, but still with the band’s clear identity,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013