Erik Verwey Trio: People Flow

Belgian pianist Verwey and guests create a a breezy and accessible series of musical sketches and portraits of past encounters...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2021

Don Rendell Quintet: Space Walk

Peter Shade | Trevor Tompkins | Don Rendell | Stan Robinson | Jack Thorncraft

Space Walk, from the EMI Lansdowne Jazz series, is the first of the much-anticipated British Jazz Explosion series of facsimile...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2021

Sam Blakeslee and Wistful Thinking: The Long Middle

This Ohio-based trombonist is joined by his appropriately named drum-less chamber jazz ensemble Wistful Thinking for a breezily understated debut...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2021

Joe O'Connor/Theo Carbo/Tim Green: Eclogue

Tim Green | Theo Carbo | Joe O'Connor

Perhaps it has something to do with the huge, empty skies and landscapes of the Australian outback, but the music...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2021

Télémaque: The King's Hall Concert

Joe McPhee | Paul Hession | John Pope

This is as much a showcase for the strength of the improvised music scene in the Northeast of England as...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021

Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020

Alexander Hawkins | Stephen Davis | Neil Charles | Anthony Braxton

While pursuing his path as an uncompromisingly original composer, Anthony Braxton has regularly visited ‘the tradition’ during his long career....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021

Tower of Power: 50 Years of Funk & Soul

Steve ‘Doc’ Kupka | Chester Thompson | Lenny Pickett | Francis ‘Rocco’ Prestia | Adolpho Acosta | Sal Cracchiolo | Roger Smith | The Tower of Power Funky Strings | Bruce Conte | David Eskridge

Get out your red zimmer, baby, you're going out to dance. Well, what can you say? This wasn't so much...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2021

Mike Taylor: Mandala

Tony Reeves | Jon Hiseman | Dave Tomlin | Mike Taylor

The introductory compilation album of Decca's new 1960s/70s British Jazz Explosion reissue series includes a track from the restless and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2021

Kenny Wheeler/John Dankworth Orchestra: Windmill Tilter (The Story Of Don Quixote)

John McLaughlin | Chris Pyne | John Spooner | Henry Lowther | Derek Watkins | Tristan Fry | Alan Branscombe | Dave Holland | Michael Gibbs | Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler, the inimitable Canadian trumpet maestro and quiet legend of post-1960s jazz composition, had been playing all kinds of...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2021

Marta Capponi: Life Within

Ross Stanley | Dario Di Lecce | Emiliano Caroselli | Jo Caleb | Marta Capponi

What makes this album from the Rome-born, London-based vocalist and composer Marta Capponi really take flight is the remarkable rapport...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2021