Wild Card: Everything Changes

Sophie Alloway | Clement Regert | Graeme Flowers | Dennis Rollins | Roberto Manzin | B'loon | Andrew Noble

As the Duke liked to mention, jazz shouldn't wander too far from dance, and if you can't dance to Wild...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2012

Zlatko Kaucic Kombo/Orkester: Rara Roza Sound Fields for T.S.

Recorded live in Slovenia, this avant jazz group within a string orchestra performs the abstract classical textural compositions of Zlatko...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Slide Hampton Octet: Somethin’ Sanctified/Sister Salvation/Live at Birdland

Two classic Atlantic albums by Slide (the first by a slightly swollen octet) plus previously unissued broadcasts from Birdland, with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Gabrielle Ducomble: J'ai De Amours

A Belgian, London-based Guildhall postgraduate fronts a band that includes pianist Alex Hutton and guitarist Nicolas Meier and sings standards,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Johnathan Blake: The Eleventh Hour

Tim Warfield | Robert Glasper | Jaleel Shaw | Gregoire Maret | Kevin Hays | Mark Turner | Tom Harrell | Johnathan Blake | Ben Street

One of the best and busiest drummers on the New York scene, who has appeared – and impressed – at...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2012

Dead Belgian: Love & Death: the Songs of Jaques Brel

A Liverpool-based band fronted by Fionnuala Dorrity give it their all in tribute to a witty iconic chansonnier with an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Chris Anderson Trio: My Romance/ Inverted Image

Walter Perkins | Bill Lee | Chris Anderson | Art Taylor | Philly Joe Jones

Chicago pianist Chris Anderson could truthfully be called a ‘musician's musician's musician.’ In fact, even some of my most knowledgeable...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2012

Album Interview: James Morrison: Snappy Too

Jeff Hamilton | James Morrison

With James Morrison it really is a case of seeing is believing. Without having seen him live it's very difficult...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2012

Peter Herbert: Joni

Wolfgang Mitterer | Ena | Peter Herbert | Koehne Quartett

Joni Mitchell's influence now runs deep within the jazz world, hopefully redressing the frankly sexist abuse she received around the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2012

Jazz Soul: Seven Impressions of Curtis May field

So often supergroups (this one includes Terri Lyne Carrington, Wallace Roney and Ernie Watts) don't live up to their billing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012