Miles Davis: Live in Copenhagen 1964

Miles Davis | Tony Williams | Herbie Hancock | Wayne Shorter | Ron Carter

This concert comes three months after The Miles Davis Quintet in Tokyo from 14 July 1964 with Sam Rivers on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012

Trish Clowes: And in the Night-Time She is There

Thomas Gould | Trish Clowes | Thea Spiers | Gwilym Simcock | string quartet | Kathleen Willison | Louise McMonagle | James Maddren | Adam Robinson | Heidi Parsons

This is saxophonist-composer Trish Clowes’ follow up to her well-received debut Tangent released on Basho in 2010. On that recording...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Shai Maestro Ttio: Shal Maestro Trio

Avishai Cohen's sideman, the Israeli pianist sets out on his own for a trio debut that is a more rhapsodic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

JazzKamikaze: The Return of Jazzkamikaze

Kristor Bredsgaard | Daniel Heiy Davidsen | Anton Eger | Marius Neset | Morten Schantz

To these ears, fusion always seemed the squarest and least genuine of all the musical variations to evolve out of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2012

Beverley Belme and her Quartet: Seasons of Love

This west Yorkshire actress-vocalist doesn't lack presence especially at slower tempos on a set of mostly standards backed by local...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Keith Loftis: Simply, Loftis

Dallas-born saxophonist Loftis, who's locked into a tried-and-tested modernism, is a mainstay of the Roy Hargrove band and the trumpeter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Steve Smith and Vital Information: Live! One Great Night

Tom Coster | Vinny Valentino | Baron Browne | Steve Smith

The recording may be five years old, but Smith knows how to keep this band and its high-energy fusion fresh...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2012

Aleks Sever: Danger Girl

Jeff Young | Mitch Forman | Nick Lane | Deron Johnson | Walt Fowler | Aleks Sever | Melvin Lee Davis | Oscar Seaton | Brandon Fields

Sever's kicked around the States for a decade now, and this is her third album but the first with such...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2012

Solveig Slettahjell and Morten Qvenild: Antologie

Morten Qvenild | Solveig Slettahjell

When Solveig Slettahjell first emerged on the Norwegian scene in 2001 with her Slow Motion Orchestra (with her long-time pianist...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012

Dave Jones Quartet: Resonance

Paul Baxter | Johnny Tomlinson | Kristoffer Wright

A Port Talbot-based piano quartet with additional horns/strings plays well-crafted tunes with some similarities to young London bassist Will Collier's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014