Andrea Venetiani Trio: Oltreoceano

The Italian, US resident double bassist/composer's trio debut features his mentor Kenny Werner, and alternates between Monk-esque bop and something...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Bob Belden's Animation: Transparent Heart

Jacob Smith | Bob Belden | Matt Young | Roberto Verastegui | Peter Clagett

Bob Belden's latest album might be considered programmatic or impressionistic, it might be said to employ music concrète techniques, or...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012

4 Sided Triangle

Mike Outram | Daisy Palmer | Kevin Figes | Dan Moore

Kevin Figes studied sax with Elton Dean and has had a close association with Keith Tippett since moving to Bristol...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Album Interview: Bugge Wesseltoft & Henning Kraggerud: Last Spring

Henning Kraggerud | Bugge Wesseltoft

Although most of Wesseltoft's work has been released by his own Jazzland label, including his hugely influential New Conception of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012

Ondatropica

A Columbian band that fuses their folklorist roots with western street styles from ska, rock to hip hop on a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Andy Jaffe: Manhattan Projections

John Clark | Tom Olin | Philippe Crettien | Andy Jaffe | Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith | Bill Lowe | Mike Marcus | Claire Arenius | Wallace Roney | Ed Jackson

The bulk of this album covers the first seven tracks recorded by a septet featuring Branford Marsalis, with the remaining...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: August/2012

Frank Lowe: The Loweski

Joseph Jarman | William Parker | Rashid Sinan | Raymond Lee Cheng | Frank Lowe

If ‘the cry’ is a much-used description of the magic of many improvising horn players, then this music makes a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2012

Alan Pasqua: Twin Bill

Subtitled Two Piano Music of Bill Evans, this odd tribute by the New Jersey pianist, a regular collaborator of Peter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Hannes Riepler: The Brave

Tom Challenger | Hannes Riepler | Jon Scott | Kit Downes | Ryan Trebilcock

Originally from Innsbruck in Austria, guitarist Hannes Riepler came to London via study in Amsterdam and has been running regular...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: August/2012

Astor Piazzolla: L'Ultime Concert

To tango fanatics Piazzolla can do no wrong, so no doubt this pretentious final wallow in Tangoid structures with Symphony...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012