John Surman: Saltash Bells

Lorenzo Feliciati

This is John Surman's first solo ‘solo’ record in 18 years and the seventh in a sequence that began in...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise

Bjørn Kjellemyr | Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen | Egil Fossum | Kari Bremmnes | Aage Kvalbein | Ketil Bjørnstad | Matias Bjørnstadt

Patience is a virtue for this Japanese veteran meditative jazz pianist's trio that's notable for being his last with the...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Arild Andersen/the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra/Tommy Smith: Celebration

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra | Tommy Smith | Arild Andersen

Bassist Arild Andersen's critically acclaimed trio with Tommy Smith on saxophone has toured extensively and recorded for ECM – Live...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Jon Balke Batagraf: Say and Play

Ambient experimental Norwegian keyboardist with percussion collective Batagraf is inspired by the ritualistic languages of Wolof, Yoruba and Arabic drumming,...

Reviewed in issue April/2012

Anders Jormin: Ad Lucem

Erika Angell | Anders Jormin | Jon Fält | Fredrik Ljungkvist | Miriam Wallentin

This album combines two thirds of the Bobo Stenson Trio (Jormin and Fält) with the elegant voices of Wallentin and...

Reviewed in issue April/2012

Billy Hart: All Our Reasons

Ethan Iverson | Billy Hart | Mark Turner | Ben Street

Drummer Billy Hart started off in the 1960s bands of Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery, then contributed to such jazz...

Reviewed in issue April/2012

Tord Gustavsen: The Well

Tore Brunborg | Jarle Vespestad | Tord Gustavsen | Mats Eilertsen

It came as something of surprise that after an impressive trilogy of albums in the trio format, when his compositional...

Reviewed in issue February/2012

Tim Berne: Snakeoil

Tim Berne | Ches Smith | Matt Mitchell | Oscar Noriega

Tim Berne, noted explorer of the tensions between composition and improvisation, knew exactly what he was doing in assembling his...

Reviewed in issue February/2012

Andy Sheppard, Michel Benita, Sebastian Rochford: Trio Libero

Andy Sheppard | Michel Benita | Sebastian Rochford

This is an album of stately elegance and beauty. Featuring 13 tunes over its 51-minute length, it flows gracefully from...

Reviewed in issue February/2012

Sinikka Langeland: The Land That Is Not

Trygve Seim | Martku Ounaskari | Sinftka Langeland | Anders Jomin | Arve Henrftsen

The Land That Is Not is, for me, a record of contradictions, simultaneously hard to I really dislike but also...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2011/2012