Gannets: Transmissions of Not

Steve Noble | Chris Cundy | Alex Ward | Dominic Lash | Fyfe Dangerfield

If there's ever any danger of an avant-garde improv unit having teenappeal, then it might just be Gannets that fits...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2012

Yazz Ahmed: Finding My Way Home

Jay Darwish | Laurence Cottle | Alam Nathoo | Janek Gwizdala | Shabaka Hutchings | John Bailey | Corrina Silvester | Chris Fish | George Hart | Yazz Ahmed

Now in her latetwenties, Yazz Ahmed only started playing jazz on the trumpet in her late teens. You aren't made...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Headhunters: Survival Of The Fittest/Straight From The Gate

Derrick Youman | Zak Diouf | Blackbird McKnight | Baba Duru | Paul Potyen | Bennie Maupin | Joyce Jackson | Harvey Mason | Blackbird Mcknight | Bill Summers

If ever there was an appropriate title for a tune, then it is surely ‘God Made Me Funky’, the high...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012

Ernie Henry: The Last Sessions

Benny Golson | Wilbur Ware | Wynton Kelly | Paul Chambers | Melba Liston | Lee Morgan | Cecil Payne | Ernie Henry | Philly Joe Jones

Of the many young bebop saxophonists to be inspired and infl uenced by Charlie Parker, perhaps one of the most...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2012

Blink: Twice

Robin Fincker | Vincent Courtois | Alcyona Mick | Paul Clarvis

A double CD set from the experimental Blink, a sax-piano-drums trio that specialises in keeping you guessing as to what...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Tony Perkins: Tony Perkins/On a Rainy Afternoon

Perkins’ light vocal style has not stood the test of time well, but if you blank him out, this record...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Livio Minafra 4et: Surprise!!!

Every now and then you hear something that reminds you forcefully of the dizzying distances jazz has travelled in the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2012

Jim Mullen Reunion Quartet: String Theory

Eric Ford | Carmen Flores | Dave Le Page | Duncan Eagles | Benet Mclean | Mathew Sharp | Max Luthert | Benet McLean

Glaswegian guitarist Jim Mullen recently reformed his quartet with Gareth Williams, Mick Hutton and Gary Husband for a Jazz Services-supported...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2015

Dan Wilensky: Back in the Mix

Besides his stints with Ray Charles, Playboy Club house band and numerous big pop dates, this LA-based saxophonist leads a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Oscar Peterson: The Sound of the Trio

These albums comprise Peterson's own favourite recordings by the Brown/Thigpen version of his trio, but rather than buy these individual...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012