Cosmic Vibrations featuring Dwight Trible: Pathways & Passages

John B Williams | Breeze Smith | Derf Reklaw | Pablo Calogero | Dwight Trible | Christopher Garcia

Although vocalist Dwight Trible is most probably the name that will be readily identified by most this is a west...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2020

Shiver: #4 – I Need You To Focus

Chris Sharkey | Andy Champion | Joost Hendrickx

Chris Sharkey is one of the UK's most agile musical shapeshifters. Hewing heavy riffs for the likes of the much-missed...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: November/2020

Tim Garland: ReFocus

Asaf Sirkis | John Turville | Ben Hancox | Lauren Scott | Magdalena Filipczak | Rakhi Singh | Tim Garland | Cecilia Bignall | Juan-Miguel Hernandez | Yuri Goloubev

Since the British reeds-playing composer Tim Garland is an eclectically powerful storyteller and musical landscape-painter, it was always likely that...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2020

Orlando Le Fleming: Romantic Funk: The Unfamiliar

Philip Dizack | Orlando Le Fleming | Will Vinson | Kush Abadey | Nate Wood | Sean Wayland

Royal Academy-schooled bassist Le Fleming was already an in-demand UK-based sideman before taking off in 2003 for New York where...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Floating Circles Quartet: Humble Travellers

Jonny Wickham | Matt Hurley | Johanna Burnheart | Aidan Pearson | Arthur Newell

Aidan Pearson is a Tomorrow's Warriors and Guildhall graduate, and Floating Circles Quartet are the vehicle of this rare contemporary...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2020

Marius Neset/Danish Radio Big Band/Miho Hazama: Tributes

Jakob Munck Mortensen | Kaspar Vadsholt | Peter Dahlgren, | Lars Vissing | Anders Gaardmand | Frederick Menzies | Erik Eilertsen | Hans Ulrik | Gerard Presencer | Thomas Kjaergaard

With 2016's Snowmelt and 2019's Viaduct (both featuring the London Sinfonietta), the Norwegian reeds virtuoso Marius Neset emerged as a...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2020

Hazar feat. Al Di Meola: Reincarnated

Formerly recognised as a virtuoso on the Turkish Saz, Hazar has attuned his skills to the acoustic guitar mixing his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Javon Jackson: Déjà Vu

David Williams | Javon Jackson | Jeremy Manasia | McClenty Hunter

On the fittingly titled Déjà Vu, JavonJackson looks to breathe new life into classic straightahead jazz. You can't find many...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

The Royal Bopsters: Party of Four

A male-female MOR jazz vocalese quartet (with guests Bob Dorough and Sheila Jordan) inspired by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes: Heritage of the Invisible II

Aquiles Navarro | Ricardo de León | Tcheser Holmes | Marcos de la Fuente | Brigitte Zozula | Nick Sanders

Trumpeter Navarro and drummer Holmes have been playing together since they were both students at the New England Conservatory. It...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2020