Danny Keane: Roamin'

Artists involved in this English pianist's debut include Byron Wallen and Ethiopi-jazz titan Mulatu Astatke, and it's is a cosmopolitan...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Aaron Parks: Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man

Greg Tuohey | Aaron Parks | Tommy Crane | David Ginyard Jr

You can draw a line from Aaron Parks' 2008 debut Invisible Cinema and Little Big to the new CD Little...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Edikanfo: The Pace Setters

William Quist | Kwesi Okran | Ishmael ‘Smith’ Odei | George Williams | Gilbert ‘Chee-Kin-Chee’ Amartey | Paa Akrashie | Albert ‘Bobo’ Williams | Osei Tutu

The lauded Ghanaian group Edikanfo can't quite catch a break. Back in 1981, for example, the highlife-meets-Afro funk outfit were...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2020

Charles Pillow Ensemble: Chamber Jazz

Saxophonist Charles Pillow's orchestra fuses elements of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy with jazz – the latter providing the structuring...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Ron Caines/Martin Archer AXIS: Dream Feathers

Hervé Perez | Gus Garside | Ron Caines | Laura Cole | Anton Hunter | Johnny Hunter | Martin Archer

There's a clear division of labour at work in this particular axis: Ron Caines, erstwhile member of UK psych-prog originals...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2020

Hideto Sasaki-Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet + 1: Stop Over

Kei Narita | Noriyasu Watanabe | Hideto Sasaki | Toshiyuki Sekine | Takashi Kursaki

This is the sixth release in BBE's J Jazz Masterclass Series, curated by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden. The ‘J’...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2020

Kirk Knuffe: Brightness Live in Amsterdam

Kurt Knuffe is an impressive cornetist, who sings a little too, and he leads a raw, open-ended groove trio with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Obradović-Tixier Duo: The Boiling Stories of a Smoking Kettle

David Tixier | Lada Obradović

‘Quirky’ is not a word to be bandied about lightly, particularly in a musical context – too often it's a...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2020

Stefano Bollani: Piano Variations on Jesus Christ Superstar

Stefano Bollani | Manuela Bollani | Frida Bollani | Valentina Cenni

The first time they were recorded, the titular lyrics to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's groundbreaking rock opera were...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2020

Caspar Brotzmann Massaker: Home

Eduardo Delgado Lopez | Caspar Brötzmann | Danny Longman

For their fifth LP guitarist Caspar Brotzmann's Massaker trio made a slight return to their previously released The Tribe and...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: June/2020