Avishai Cohen: Triveni II

Nasheet Waits | Avishai Cohen | Omer Avital

The trumpeter Avishai Cohen has six albums to his credit, has just won Downbeat's rising star award in the critic's...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2013

Luis Bonfa: Introspection/The New Face of Bonfa

The first of these two albums is a clever piece of multi-tracked playing by the Brazilan guitar maestro — the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

Jon Irabagon: Outright! Unhinged

This fiery rising star Chicagoan tenor saxophonist-composer's genre-subverting band boasts a heavy-duty New York left-of-centre lineup including Tom Rainey and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Dieter Ilg: Parsifal

Dieter Ilg | Patrice Héral | Rainer Böhm

Richard Wagner doesn't crop up too often in the repertoires of jazz trios. His big, bombastic and extremely Germanic operas...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2013

Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson: Stones

Colin Stetson | Mats Gustafsson

It was kind of inevitable that these two macho heavyweights would eventually work together. Gustafsson is, of course, the Swedish...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2013

Michel Sajrawy: Arabop

Wisam Arram | Nehaya Damouni | Adnan Hadda | Samir Makhoul | Valeri Lipets | Amiram Granot | Stas Zilberman | Maali Klar | Michel Sajrawy

Michel Sajrawy, a Palestinian of Christian faith with an Israeli passport and a British conservatory education, is a fusionist for...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2013

Julian Shore: Filaments

Shelly Tzarafi | Alexa Barchini | Noah Preminger | Phil Donkin | Kurt Ozan | Jeff Miles | Tommy Crane | Julian Shore | Andrew Hadro | Godwin Louis

A record that exudes a life force a hothoused young virtuoso would struggle to find in music school, Filaments has...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: February/2013

Ivar Grydeland: Bathymetric Modes

Guitar family and minimalist digital loops merge in a chilled new recording by a Norwegian guitarist, also a member of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Paul Motian: On Broadway

Masabumi Kikuchi | Bill Frisell | Michaël Attias | Rebecca Martin | Lee Konitz | Loren Stillman | Paul Motian | Joe Lovano | Larry Grenadier | Thomas Morgan

Compiled as a tribute to Motian, his occasional series has now been collated in time to celebrate the 25th anniversary...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2013

Nathan Haines: The Poet's Embrace

Kevin Field | Nathan Haines | Alain Koetsier | Thomas Botting

The accomplished New Zealand saxophonist, who has made worthwhile forays into the dance music world by way of albums like...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2013