Matthew Goodheart & The Broken Ghost Consort: Presences

Melvyn Poore | Matthias Muche | George Cremaschi | Georg Wissel | Matthew Goodheart

You don’t need a degree in electro-acoustic sound engineering to appreciate what’s going on here, but it probably helps.Goodheart’s piece...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021

Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Freddie Hubbard | Roy Haynes | Bill Evans | Eric Dolphy | Oliver Nelson | George Barrow

Has there ever been amore impressive line-up on one jazz record than on Oliver Nelson’s 1961 masterpiece? Perhaps… but more...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2021

Omer Klein: Personal Belongings

Amir Bresler | Omer Klein | Haggai Cohen-Milo

The aptly-titled Personal Belongings originated close to the heart of the gifted Frankfurt-resident Israeli pianist Omer Klein, being a half-dozen...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2021

Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Live at Slugs’ Volume I

Charles Tolliver | Cecil McBee | Jimmy Hopps | Stanley Cowell

Charles Tolliver and his Strata-East co-founder Stanley Cowell, accompanied by the superb McBee-Hopps rhythm section, are both in absolutely imperious...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2021

Albert Nicholas: Albert’s Blues & the 44 Gerrard St. Session

Barry Martyn | Jim Bray | Albert Nicholas | Wally Fawkes | Bruce Turner | Graham Burbidge | Pete Appleby | Paul Simpson | Bix Duff | Cuff Billett

Something of a game of two halves, this one. The fine New Orleans clarinet star Albert Nicholas had come to...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2021

Matti Klein: Soul Trio Live on Tape

A smokin' hot series of sessions, recorded live with no overdubs, featuring Wurlitzer and Rhodes Bass maestro Klein and his...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2021

Joe McPhee/Michael Marcus/Jay Rosen/Warren Smith: Blue Reality Quartet!

Jay Rosen | Joe McPhee | Michael Marcus | Warren Smith

Here’s the latest instalment in Arkansas-based Mahakala Music’s mission to bring together unfairly overlooked improvisers and free-jazz big guns. In...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021

Michael Garrick Sextet: A New Serious Music

Coleridge Goode | Ian Carr | Henry Lowther | Art Themen | Trevor Tomkins | Jeremy Robson | Michael Garrick | Don Rendell | John Smith | Norma Winstone

A game of two halves, with points of interest in both, but very unalike in production and atmosphere. The separate...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2021

Marc Johnson: Overpass

Marc Johnson

Over a period of nearly half a century, Johnson has been a high-level player including as a creative bandleader with...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2021

The Harvey O’Higgins Project: That’s the Way to Live!

Josh Morrison | Jeremy Brown | Dave O’Higgins | Graham Harvey

All is well with the world. Dave O’Higgins is back and swinging in partnership with old pals. Pandemics may come...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2021