Lisa Hilton: More than Another Day

Lisa Hilton | Luques Curtis | Rudy Royston

Pianist-composer Lisa Hilton has been recording regularly for her own label Ruby Slippers since the late 1990s. Her jazz piano...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

Soft Works: Abracadabra in Osaka

Hugh Hopper | John Marshall | Elton Dean | Allan Holdsworth

Rarity alone does not a recording special make, but having four former members of Soft Machine from different eras come...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2021

Dave Stryker: Baker's Circle

Mclenty Hunter | David Stryker | Mayra Casales | Jared Gold | Walter Smith III

Stryker's clean lines and mastery of the groove fitted perfectly with his long-time boss Stanley Turrentine's soulful sax. So it's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2021

Group Sounds Four & Five: Black & White Raga

Jack Bruce | Henry Lowther | Ron Rubin | Ken McCarthy | Lyn Dobson | Jon Hiseman

Taken from the Jon Hiseman tape archive, Group Sounds Four (a broadcast from June 1966 involving Lowther, Dobson, Bruce and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021

The Underflow: Instant Opaque Evening

David Grubbs | Rob Mazurek | Mats Gustafsson

The paths of saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, guitarist David Grubbs and trumpeter Rob Mazurek have crossed and crossed again since they...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Poetry, Pleased: Charles Lloyd & The Marvels: Tone Poem

Reuben Rogers | Charles Lloyd | Greg Leisz | Eric Harland | Bill Frisell

Although the vocal add-ons to the Marvels' first two albums spoke of music-making with no boundaries or barriers, the fascination...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021

Out of Necessity…: John Pope Quintet: Mixed With Glass

Jamie Stockbridge | Johnny Hunter | John Pope | Faye MacCalman | Graham Hardy

The fourth edition of the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music was set to run in October 2020 until...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Futari: Beyond

Satoko Fujii

The band-name Futari apparently means ‘two people' in Japanese, and it pairs the highly prolific Satoko Fujii on piano with...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2021

New Life Trio: Visions Of The Third Eye

Steve Reid | Brandon Ross | David Wertman

Drummer Steve Reid, with his dazzling discography that includes sideman credits for everyone from Motown to Sun Ra and James...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2021

Kjetil Mulelid: Piano

The 29-year-old Norwegian pianist Mulelid's solo debut invites inevitable comparisons with Keith Jarrett with its meditative qualities, rhapsodic classical roots,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021