Wolfgang Haffner: Kind of Tango

Wolfgang Haffner | Christopher Dell | Bill Evans | Vincent Peirani | Guest Alma Naidu | Lars Nilsson | Simon Oslender | Lars Danielsson | Ulf Wakenius | Sebastian Studnitzky

First there was Kind of Cool (2015). Next there was Kind of Spain (2017). And now, to complete the trilogy,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2020

Johnny Hodges: Creamy

Jimmy Woode | Sam Woodyard | Harry Carney | Billy Strayhorn | Clark Terry | Sonny Greer | Ray Nance | Lawrence Brown | Johnny Hodges

Was a jazz album ever more appropriately titled? This EJC reissue of two of Hodges’ mid-1950s Verve sessions is a...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2020

Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You?

Tcheser Holmes | Keir Neuringer | Camae Ayewa | Aquiles Navarro | Luke Stewart

East Coast collective Irreversible Entanglements still refer to themselves as a free jazz group but, since the release of their...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2020

Keith Oxman: Two Cigarettes in the Dark

Houston Person | Jeff Jenkins | Ken Walker | Annette Murrell | Keith Oxman | Paul Romaine

The original ‘Two Cigarettes in the Dark’ was a 1934 Bing Crosby hit that sugar-coated romantic deceit with sweetly voiced...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2020

Gaz Hughes: The Gaz Hughes Sextet Plays Art Blakey

Gaz Hughes | Alan Barnes | Bruce Adams | Dean Masser | Andrzej Baranek | Ed Harrison

Drummer Hughes first gained attention with the Matthew Halsall band and is presently best known as a busy sideman and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2020

Ivar Grydland/Henry Kaiser: In the Arctic Dreamtime

Henry Kaiser | Ivar Grydland

One might not think that a 1925 silent film documentary made by polar explorer Roald Amundsen would be the most...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2020

Trilok Gurtu: God is a Drummer

Sabri Tulug Tirpan | Jonathan Cuniado | Wolf Kerschek | Zara | Christophe Schweizer | Emre Meralli | Kaplana Patowary | Frederik Koster | Trilok Gurtu

Gurtu is right: God is a drummer, she told me so, and this is a God that celebrates peace, reverence,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020

Raul Midón: The Mirror

Midón seems to have unfortunately lost his mojo of late and this rather lightweight recording confirms as much following the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Evan Parker/Paul Lytton: Collective Calls (Revisited) (Jubilee)

Evan Parker | Paul Lytton

Saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lytton first bonded together in 1969, at a time when the UK experimental music...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: May/2020

Gerry Mulligan/Art Farmer: Gerry Mulligan & Art Farmer

Russ Freeman | Bill Crow | Gerry Mulligan | Dave Bailey | Art Farmer | Art Pepper | Buddy Clark | Bob Enevoldsen

This Gerry Mulligan Quartet was a very different beast to its earlier, and more celebrated, Chet Baker-featured incarnation. For one...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2020