Sonar (feat. David Torn): Tranceportation Vol.2

David Torn | Manuel Pasquinelli | Stephan Thelen | Christian Kuntner | Bernhard Wagner

Swiss ensemble Sonar follow up their 2019 collaboration with guitarist David Torn by culling more music from the lengthy sessions...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2020

Spirit Fingers: Peace

Try to categorise pianist Greg Spero's Spirit Fingers at your peril; they're a slick mixture of contemporary beats, swing, jazz-rock...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Dave Bryant: Night Visitors

Dave Bryant | Charnett Moffett | Gregg Bendian

Since Ornette Coleman's radical agenda included setting jazz free from harmonic constraints, he rarely went in for hiring keyboardists. Dave...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Tropos: Axioms//75AB

Phillip Golub | Raef Sengupta | Lalia Smith | Mario Layne Fabrizio | Zachary Levine

Formed in 2018 at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music, improvisational quintet Tropos’ debut recording celebrates the 75th birthday of...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2020

Alan_Braufman: The Fire Still Burns

Ken Filiano | Alan Braufman | James Brandon Lewis | Cooper-Moore | Andrew Drury | Michael Wimberly

It's the kind of comeback you normally only see in movies. In the early 1970s, saxophonist Alan Braufman was a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2020

Teddy Wilson Trio: Revisits the Goodman Years

Jesper Lundgaard | Teddy Wilson | Ed Thigpen

The then 68-year old Wilson was in Copenhagen in 1980 in what was for him a busy year, this also...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2020

James Copus: Dusk

Tom Cawley | James Copus | Jason Brown | Conor Chaplin

As will be apparent elsewhere in these pages, young trumpeter Copus is currently making a name for himself, hitherto with...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2020

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: The Mothers 1970

Flo &Eddie aka oward Kaylan | Frank Zappa | Jeff Simmons | George Duke, | Aynsley Dunbar | Ian Underwood | Mark Volman

That Frank Zappa is a major figure deserving of constant attention is a given. Whether or not we need quite...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2020

Thomas Agergaard Quartet: Testing 1-2-3-4

Carsten Dahl | Thomas Blachman | Thomas Agergaard | Lennart Ginman

Agergaard is one of Denmark's top tenor saxophonists. He's been around the block and then some, and has refined what...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2020

Rudresh Mahanthappa: Hero Trio

Rudresh Mahanthappa | Francois Moutin | Rudy Royston

Mahanthappa's 2015 CD Bird Caiis was one of the most intelligent investigations of Charlie Parker's music in recent memory, using...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2020