Christian Wallumrød Ensemble: Many

Tove Törngren Brun | Per Oddvar Johansen | Eivind Lenning | Espen Reinertsen | Christian Wallumrød

After five albums on the Munich-based ECM label, Wallumrød turned to Norway’s leading independent label Hubro in 2016 with Kurzsam...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Tony Kofi: Another Kind of Soul

Andy Cleyndert | Alex Webb | Tony Kofi | Andy Davies | Alfonso Vitale

The transmigration of souls is a curious concept, but the soul of Cannonball Adderley must surely have alighted, Bird-like, within...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020

Dan Loomis: Job's Trial

New York bassist Dan Loomis’ ‘Jazz Song Cycle’ is more like an avant-psych rock oddity in which he sketches out...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Avishai Cohen: Big Vicious

Ziv Ravitz | Uzi Ramirez | Avishai Cohen | Yonatan Albalak | Aviv Cohen

The Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen charged onto the scene with his invigorating, all-embracing grasp of the 20th century acoustic jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Olivier/Abbasi: Oasis

With its understated Indian percussion instrumentation, this collaboration between French harpist Isabelle Olivier and New York-based guitarist Rez Abbasi catches...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Wayne Krantz: Write Out Your Head

Pino Palladino | Wayne Krantz | Tim Lefebvre | Orlando Fleming | Will Lee | Chris Potter | Gabriella Anders | Keith Carlock

Krantz keeps the constant surprise going with a release which is at once more composed, in both mood and construction,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020

John Coltrane Quartet: Africa/Brass

Eric Dolphy | Booker Little | Freddie Hubbard | Paul Chambers | Reggie Workman | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones | John Coltrane

Coltrane Plays the Blues, re-released in a limited edition run by Vinyl Lovers, is without the original cover art, an...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Mike Westbrook: Love and Understanding: Citadel/Room 315 Sweden ‘74

Bengt Hallberg | Arne Domnérus | Jan Allan | Sven Larsson | Stefan Brolund | Georg Riedel | Americo Bellotto | Claes Rosendahl | Rune Gustafsson | Lennart åberg

Falling in love again… Released in 1975, Citadel/Room 315 is rightly recognised, if you need labels, as a classic of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020

Agile Experiments: Alive in the Empire

Dave De Rose | John Edwards | Dan Nicholls | George Crowley

Agile Experiments’ vinyl-only releases emphasise the Dave De Rose’s collective’s ethos since their 2015 start, fiercely improvising to curious Brixton...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020

Mezcla: Shoot the Moon

David Bowden | Alan Benzie | Steve Forman | Michael Butcher | Joshua Elcock | Ben MacDonald | Stephen Henderson

Former BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year David Bowden also plays bass on the limpidly beautiful, locally nostalgic folk-jazz...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020