Album Interview: Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Ding Dong. You're Dead

Ellen Brekken | Ivar Loe Bjornstad | Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen

That Mollestad would love to have played on Miles' Live/Evil recordings is the giveaway. This is a guitarist whose writing...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2021

Santa De la Rubia/Vinicius Gómes: Changes

The Barcelona-based saxophonist De La Rubia and Brazilian guitarist Gómes' new recording has a contemporary cool about it; the vibe...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

Wynton Marsalis/Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet: The Democracy! Suite

Carlos Henriquez | Ted Nash | Walter Blanding | Dan Nimmer | Elliot Mason | Obed Calvaire | Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis and a Lincoln Center Orchestra septet recorded these new Marsalis pieces without an audience in the Lincoln Center...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2021

Cat Toren: Ocelot

It's rather difficult to warm to the forbidding brand of avant-garde jazz offered by the Brooklyn-based, Canadian pianist Cat Toren's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

Tania Giannouli Trio: In Fading Light

Kyriakos Tapakis | Andreas Polyzogopoulos | Tania Giannouli

The music of the piano trio led by Greek composer, improviser and bandleader Tania Giannouli has been likened to ECM's...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2021

Roseanna Vitro: Listen Here

Kenny Barron | Roseanna Vitro | Buster Williams | Ben Riley | Arnett Cobb

Recorded in 1982 and originally released in October 1984, this reissue of Roseanna Vitro's fine debut album finds a singer...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2021

Pat Thomas & The Locals: Play The Music Of Anthony Braxton

Darren Hasson Davis | Evan Thomas | Alex Ward | Dominic Lash | Pat Thomas

To the casual listener, finding an entry point into the complex and substantial body of work by US composer Anthony...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2021

Stickmen ft Gary Husband: Owari

Gary Husband | Markus Reuter | Pat Mastelotto | Tony Levin

Tony Levin and Pat Mastellotto's deep understanding of each other over the decades with King Crimson and their own projects...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

Cameron Graves: Seven

Max Gerl | Mike Mitchell | Colin Cook | Kamasi Washington | Cameron Graves

Blimey! Did they have a bus to catch? Graves and co. billywhizz through 11 cuts in just 32 minutes. Graves...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

The Richard Andersson Quartet: Pocket Music

The young Danish bassist Richard Andresson heads an experienced home-grown line up (including drummer Kresten Osgood) in an enjoyable in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021