Michael Mantler: Coda – Orchestra Suites

Bjarne Roupe | Michael Mantler

Austrian trumpeter-composer Mantler makes music that can move from shadow to light in a moment. The mercurial moods of this...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021

Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk: Mulligan Meets Monk

Percy Heath | Connie Kay | Miles Davis | Wilbur Ware | Mulligan | Thelonious Monk | Gerry Mulligan | Monk | Shadow Wilson | Zoot Sims

Mulligan and Monk had gelled when they'd met previously in various impromptu playing situations, this giving Riverside producer Orrin Keepnews...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021

Ferg Ireland Trio

James Maddren | Ferg Ireland | Nathaniel Facey

Ferg Ireland's big tone, sure rhythmic sense, adventurous musicality and lightning fast chops have earned him a place as first-call...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: September/2021

Archie the Goldfish: Water & Light

Graeme Flowers | Kishon Khan | Chris Bestwick | Aidan Thorne | Nadia Basurto

Archie the Goldfish is a new project from Graeme Flowers and Chris Bestwick, who first played together over two decades...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2021

Derek Bailey/Mototeru Takagi: Live At Far Out, Atsugi 1987

Derek Bailey | Mototeru Takagi

The four improvised duets that make up this collaboration between UK guitarist Derek Bailey and Japanese soprano sax player Mototeru...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: September/2021

Shitney: Post Vocal

Katrine Amsler | Qarin Wikström | Maria Faust

What draws this trio together is attitude. There is an effortless musical identity that rubs up against the radical; they...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: September/2021

Matt Ridley: The Antidote

Ant Law | Matt Ridley | Marc Michel | Alex Hitchcock | Tom Hewson

Matt Ridley was an in-demand bass sideman on the circuit before the pandemic crisis took hold, but he's also quietly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

Kippie Moketsi & HaiSinger: Blue Stompin'

Barney Rachabane | Gilbert Mathews | Kippie Moeketsi | Hal Singer | Duku Makasi | Sipho Gumede | August Gus Nemeth

USA meets SA on a session that has simpatico charm à gogo. While the trans-continental encounter of two excellent saxophonists,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2021

Roberto Magris & Eric Hochberg: Shuffling Ivories

The Italian bassist and Chicagoan pianist are in bebop mode for much of the time here, but with nods to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

Bill Evans: Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings

Eddie Gomez | Bill Evans | Marty Morell | Claus Ogerman | Metropole Orkest

This, the latest release in a seemingly unstoppable stream of unreleased Evans recordings stems from two European tours, falling chronologically...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2021