Jeff Cosgrove: History gets Ahead of the Story

Some pretty tasty contributions from a trio of Hammond B-3-er John Medeski and saxophonist John Lederer and the drummerleader Cosgrove...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020

Album Interview: RYMDEN: Space Sailors

Bugge Westeltoff

You can only make a first impression once, and RYMDEN’s debut album, Reflections and Odysseys, was always going to be...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2020

Chick Corea: Plays

It's fair to say that Keith Jarrett raised the solo piano concert to an art form in its own right...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2016

Lokkhi Terra: Cubangla

Kishon Branch

London-based collective Lokkhi Terra have been blending sounds from around the globe since 2010. They describe their music as Bangla-Afro-Latin-Jazz,...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2020

John Hollenbeck: Songs you Like a Lot

John Hollenbeck

Grammy nomin-ations aren't always the key to being noticed; ask drummer-composer John Hollenbeck, who has a handful to his credit...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Blacknuss

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Originally released on Atlantic Records, Pure Pleasure's reissue of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's euphoric celebration of black music is yet another...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: October/2020

Django Bates & Norbotten Big Band: Tenacity

Django Bates

The seven-year journey of this music from recording to release chimes well with the title, though Tenacity could also be...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2020

Don Weller’s Major Surgery: Major Surgery: Rare Live Performances 1978

Don Weller

Don Weller, the titanic Sonny Rollins and Coltrane-inspired tenor saxophonist whose guest appearances with Gil Evans' UK touring groups have...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2020

Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Ballads for Two

Chet Baker

The tonal palette of trumpet and vibes is initially intriguing, but palls slightly after a few of these funereally-paced ballads....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2020

Fonnesbæk & Kauflin: Standards

Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | Pat Senatore

Justin Kauflin, the blind pianist whose close relationship with Clark Terry just before he died was made into the documentary...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017