De Beren Gieren: Less is Endless

Simon Segers | Lieven Van Pée | Fulco Ottervanger

There was a justifiable buzz on the live European circuit (remember that?) about the young Belgian-based cosmic piano trio De...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021

A Love Supreme Electric

Rakalam Bob Moses | John Hanrahan | Wayne Peet | Vinny Golia | Henry Kaiser | Mike Watt

Originally released on Bob Thule's Impulse! label in 1965, saxophone maestro John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album became the definitive...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: February/2021

Wolfgang Lakershmid/Chet Baker: Quintet Sessions 1979

Larry Coryell | Chet Baker | Buster Williams | Wolfgang Lakerschmid | Tony Williams

Death and taxes, we're assured, are the only certainties in life. I'd add another: that the discography of trumpeter Chet...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: February/2021

Nina Pedersen: Time is a Restless Thief

This Norwegian Rome-based singer-songwriter has a commandingly expressive and uncannily retro 1960s vocal, not so much a jazz-rooted singer as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021

Peter Leitch New Life Orchestra: New Life

Duane Eubanks

‘It occurred to me that I was free from the tyranny of the jazz guitar – of having to practice...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2021

Ethan Iverson: Bud Powell in the 21st Century

Ben Street | Dayna Stephens | Giovanni Hoffer | Ethan Iverson | Lewis Nash | Ingrid Jensen | Umbria Jazz Orchestra

We know that Iverson, since leaving The Bad Plus, has been an expert piano teacher also capable of excellent commentary,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2021

Mark Egan/Danny Gottlieb: Electric Blue

Mark Egan | Danny Gottlieb

On the cover, with its Rembrandt dark hues, they look the elder statesmen that they are, following half a century...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2021

Keith Tippett: The Monk Watches the Eagle

Kevin Figes | David Roach | Keith Tippett | The BBC Singers | Julie Tippetts | Andy Scott | Rob Buckland | Paul Dunmall | Chris Biscoe | Ben Waghorn

A special BBC recording that captures Tippett's cantata on its debut, at Norwich Cathedral. It's a diverse piece, commissioned for...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2021

Machito: The Machito Collection 1941 – 52

Mario Bauza | Harry ‘Sweets; Edison | Charlie Parker | Buddy Rich | Flip Phillips | Machito | Chano Pozo | Harry Belafonte | Howard McGhee | Rene Hernandez

What Afro-Cuban jazz joy is this? A 40 track, 2CD re-issue by the great Francisco Raul Gutierrez Grillo – aka...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: February/2021

Speak Low: Speak Low II

Otis Sandsjö | Lucia Cadotsch | Petter Eldh | Lucy Railton | Kit Downes

This trio of double bass, saxophone and voice entwine so closely that even the most melancholic of tracks feel like...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: February/2021