Øyvind Braekke Sextet: Wilderness

This trombonist's pan-generational Norwegian supergroup, featuring Jacob Young and Per Zanussi among others, conjure up a charming, chamber-classical informed, ensemble-arranged...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday Sings

Flip Phillips | Barney Kessel | Billie Holiday | Oscar Peterson | Charlie Shavers | Alvin Stoller | Ray Brown

Produced by Norman Granz and featuring a first-class line-up, this all-ballads album – the singer's first recording for Granz's Clef...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2020

Heinrich Von Kalnein: Möbius Strip

Uli Rennert | Lucas Konig | Jaka Arh | Jonathan Herrgesell | Heinrich Von Kalnein | Cristina Niguel Martinez | Gina Schwarz

Austrian saxophone player Heinrich Von Kalnein compares his musical journey thus far to the two rings formed when the single...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: June/2020

Patrick Shiroishi: Descension

Patrick Shiroishi

A leading figure on LA's free-improv underground, saxophonist Shiroishi burrows deep into his own family history with a meditation on...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2020

Jazz Sabbath

Ash Soan | Jerry Meehan | Milton Keanes

This ill-fated, forgotten classic fittingly fell through my letter box on 1 April, the day Id returned from a curtailed...

Reviewed by George Kaplan (or is it Andy R in issue: June/2020

Kruglov-Sooäär Quartet: Tchaikovsky

Jaak Sooaar | Mihkel Malgand | Alexey Kruglov | Tanei Ruben

Led by saxophone player Alexey Kruglov and electric guitarist Jaak Soaar, this jazz-infected selection of Russian composer Pyett Tchaikovsky's greatest...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: June/2020

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Ella & Louis Again

Louis Bellson | Ella Fitzgerald | Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown | Louis Armstrong

The timeless music here makes one forget what a surprise it and its 1956 predecessor Ella & Louis were at...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2020

Laura Jurd's Dinosaur: To The Earth

Laura Jurd | Corrie Dick | Conor Chaplin | Elliot Galvin

Though Laura Jurd has kept on raising the high bar she set all the way back on her Landing Ground...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

Laila Biali: Out of Dust

Rich Brown | Larnell Lewis | Laila Biali | Glenn Patscha | Ben Wittman

I was a big fan of Laila Biali's 2018 self-titled debut on ACT – for which she bagged Vocal Jazz...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2020

Gerald Cleaver: Signs

Gerald Cleaver

Gerald Cleaver is best known as a drummer who's worked with free-jazz luminaries including William Parker and Matthew Shipp but,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2020