Gustavo Santaolalla and Various artists: On The Road OST

Edwin Livingston | Gustavo Santaolalla | Frank Bennett | Brian Blade | Charlie Haden | Mike Lang | Terry Harrington

The soundtrack from Walter Salles' recent adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road brings together Kerouac's love of jazz and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2012

Album Interview: Nat Birchall: World Without Form

Corey Mwamba | Paul Hession | Adam Fairhall | Jon Thorne | Nat Birchall | Nick Blacka | Andy Hay

Birchall's follow-up to last year's excellent Sacred Dimension finds him further pursuing his heartfelt devotion to the spirit and sound...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2012

Louis Armstrong: Complete Hot Fives and Hot Sevens

Carroll Dickerson's | Erskine Tate's | Lillie Delk Christian | Louis Armstrong | Butterbeans & Susie | Johnny Dodds | Jimmy Bertrand's | Victoria Spivey

EJC offer us far more than it suggests on their rather flimsy 4-CD slipcase. Yes, all the Hot Fives and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2012

Hilario Durán Trio: Motion

Born in Havana in 1953 to a musician father who was a member of the ‘Movimiento del feeling’, Hilario Durán...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2014

Yaron Herman: Alter Ego

Ziv Ravitz | Emile Parisien | Logan Richardson | Stephane Kerecki | Yaron Herman

Judging by his sleeve notes for this fourth album, and his second for Siggi Loch's ACT following Follow The White...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2012

The Cookers: Believe

Billy Hart | Craig Handy | David Weiss | Cecil McBee | Billy Harper | George Cables | Eddie Henderson

This band really has such a distinctive sound. Totally different from anything else on the scene today. It's a magic...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2012

Andy Bey: Andy & The Bey Sisters

Rayu Ellis | Paul Rovere | Kenny Dorham | Kenny Clarke | Andy Bey | Geraldine | Barney Wilen | Salome Bey

Although it is worth noting that the family vocal trio made more of an impact in Europe than in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012

Dice Factory

Tom Farmer | Tom Challenger | Jon Scott | George Fogel

At last the debut by a band that was formed some three years ago and it's scarcely a disappointment. In...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: November/2012

Tomas Fujiwara and The Hook Up: The Air Is Different

Mary Halvorson | Jonathan Finlayson | Tomas Fujiwara | Brian Settles | Trevor Dunn

There's quite a line-up on The Air Is Different: between them, these musicians have worked with the likes of Anthony...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: November/2012

Wolfgang Haffner: Heart of the Matter

Wolfgang Haffner | Eythor Gunnarsson | Dominic Miller | Sebastian Sudnitsky | Till Br'nner | Götz Alsmann | Bruno Müller | Céline Rudolph | Nicolas Fiszman

Heart of the Matter is a logical continuum of Shapes and Round Silence in its use of subtle electronic tone...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2012