Bud Powell: 1962 Copenhagen

Bud Powell | Don Byas | Jørn Elniff | Ørsted Pedersen | Brew Moore | Niels-Henning

Amidst all the travails of the period before his early death in 1966, the year 1962 seems to have been...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Jo Harrop: The Heart Wants

Troy Miller | Christian McBride | Jason Rebello | Hannah Vasanth | Andy Davies | Jo Harrop

The album cover of The Heart Wants, which features vocalist and songwriter Jo Harrop musing over a lyric sheet, is...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Peter Materna: The Kiss

Peter Materna | Silvan Strauß | Lisa Wulff

As founder and artistic director of Jazzfest Bonn, Peter Materna is ideally situated to pick out, evaluate and assimilate the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Monocled Man: Ex-Voto

Rory Simmons | Jon Scott | Chris Montague

The trumpeter-composer-programmer Rory Simmons is an original member of North London’s underground LOOP Collective, an organization that became very fertile...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

New Age Doom & Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s Guide to the Universe

The final recorded appearance from the late dub reggae pioneer, who offers spoken and sung pearls of wisdom for this...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Betamax Vs Clive Bell

Drummer Maxwell Hallett, AKA Betamax, also plays in Soccer96 and The Comet is Coming, and this side project is an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Ember with Orrin Evans: No One is Any One

Orrin Evans | Noah Garabedian | Caleb Wheeler Curtis | Vinnie Sperrazza

For their central inspiration the Brooklyn-based trio Ember, formed in 2017, draw on both the post-1970s Chicago and New York...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Levitation Orchestra: Illusions & Realities

Hamish Nockles-Moore | Beatriz Rola | James Akers | Sophie Plummer | Paris Charles | Harry Ling | Domenech Plana | Axel Kaner-Lindstrom | Roella Oloro | Saskia Horton

Levitation Orchestra are a London jazz collective, 14 strong here, whose second album was composed by discussing ideas about childhood,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Chick Corea Akoustic Band with John Patitucci & Dave Weckl: Live

Chick Corea | John Patitucci | Dave Weckl

This album was already in the works at the time of Corea’s sudden and unexpected death on 9 February 2021....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Russell Gunn & The Royal Krunk Jazz Orchestra: The Sirius Mystery

Post-bop trumpeter Russell Gunn leads an explosive contemporary big band on the second album in an arcane conceptual trilogy dedicated...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022