Flavio Boltro 5et: Joyful

Rosario Giuliani | Alex Ligertwood | Darryl Hall | Pietro Lussu | Flavio Boltro | André Ceccarelli

Back in 1998 in an interview in Downbeat, Wynton Marsalis picked out Italian trumpeter Flavio Boltro as one of the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2012

Various Artists: Americans in Europe

This overlaps somewhat with the Retrieval issue of a similar title reviewed in August, but also has some rare sides...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012

George Montague: Have you Met George

The Cotswold-based piano playing mainstream singer-songwriter Montague pitches up somewhere in-between Jamie Cullum and Robbie Williams....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Arthur Kell Quartet: Jester

Mark Ferber | Loren Stillman | Brad Shepik | Arthur Kell

A concept album dedicated to clowning about, jesters down the ages, I kid you not, with a splendid cover picture...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: October/2012

Leimgruber/Demierre Phillips: Montreuil

High level free improv session with Barre Phillips, the pianist Jacques Demierre and saxophonist Urs Leimgruber from the Swiss avant...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Jürgen Friedrich: Monosuite

A Cologne-based composer sets up an epic third stream dialogue between 22-piece string orchestra and improvisers, with John Hollenbeck on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Kenny Werner: Me, Myself & I

Kenny Werner

A live club date from last year's Montréal Jazz Festival, this reminds me in some ways of the Werner solo...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

The Remote Viewers: City of Nets

Adrian Northover | Caroline Kraabel | Sue Lynch | John Edwards | David Petts | Rosa Lynch-Northover

The eleventh album by this maverick London-based outfit follows in a direction hinted at in last year's Nerve Cure, with...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2012

Alex Tassel: The First Element: The Sea

Alex Tassel | Julien Charlet | Sylvain Beuf | Diego Imbert | Jose Arean | Mexico Symphonic Orchestra | Guy Barker | Laurent de Wilde

There are quite a few layers of surprise surrounding this album recorded in Mexico by a quintet and local symphony...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: September/2012

Dans les arbres: Canopée

Xavier Charles | Ivar Grydeland | Christian Wallumrød | Ingar Zach

Collectively written, this may well come across as contemporary classical music. However, essentially it's an introspective improv approach by this...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: September/2012