Julie Tippetts and Martin Archer: Serpentine

Gary Houghton | Julie Tippetts | Pete Fairclough | Martin Archer

Serpentine, the third and finest recent outing from Julie Tippetts and Martin Archer, feels less epic and less fantastic than...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2013

David Gilmore: Numerology: Live at Jazz Standard

Christian McBride | Miguel Zenón | Claudia Acuña | Mino Cinelu | Luis Perdomo | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | David Gilmore

Guitarist Gilmore is one of the most accomplished on today's scene and has worked with artists as diverse as Wayne...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2013

Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic

Jan Bang | Eivind Aarset

Glacially slow and lingering Dream Logic's 11 tracks are mostly the work of Bang and Aarset although producer Erik Honoré,...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: February/2013

Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project

Pat Metheny

Like the magicians of yore who invented chess playing automata that could defeat grandmasters, Metheny's Orchestrion is a creation of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2013

Ibrahim Maalouf: Wind

Frank Woeste | Clarence Penn | Larry Grenadier | Ibrahim Maalouf | Mark Turner

After the 2007-11 trilogy of Diasporas, Diachronism and Diagnostic, in which electronics and state of the art production featured prominently,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2013

Ernest Dawkins: Afro Straight

A new CD from veteran AACM saxophonist Dawkins' new group on the reliable Chicago Delmark label is unexpectedly on a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Charles Rouse: Two Is One

Paul Metzke | Calo Scott | Charles Rouse | Airto Moreira | Martin Rivera | Azzedin Weston | David Lee | Stanley Clark | George Davis

After a decade playing in Thelonious Monk's band, tenor-man Charles Rouse was clearly primed to stretch out into open ground....

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2013

Baptiste Trotignon: Song Song Song

One of France's young stars, the pianist Trotignon is on diversion here exploring the Chanson tradition with singers including Jeanne...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Max Nagl feat. Lol Coxhill

Lol Coxhill | Max Nagl

A bit of a mixed bag this: freeish saxophone playing punctuated with the odd musique concrète collage (‘Messer’) or burst...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2013

Paisean

Ex-Middlesex 1980s uni graduates, the experienced saxophonist Ed Jones and pianist-composer Steve Plews, convene for a set balancing hard bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013