Day Dream: Originals

Bassist Drew Gress, drummer Phil Haynes and pianist Steve Rudolph’s assertive, sonically atmospheric recording of original material has enough unexpected...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Arto Lindsay/Ken Vandermark/Joe McPhee/Phil Sudderberg: Largest Afternoon

Joe McPhee | Arto Lindsay | Ken Vandermark | Phil Sudderberg

The term ‘skronk’ is usually applied these days to the sound of the saxophone used as an energy source in...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2020

Howard Riley: More Listening, More Hearing

Howard Riley

Perhaps the first thing to say is that this new release, along with its predecessor on the same label, Listen...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2020

The Geordie Approach: Shields

Ståle Birkeland | Chris Sharkey | Petter Frost Fadnes

The Geordie Approach are no ordinary improvising trio. Their previous two albums – 2007’s Why Eye and Inatween from 2012...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2020

Mike Nock/Hamish Stuart/Julien Wilson/Jonathan Zwartz: This World

Mike Nock | Jonathan Zwartz | Julien Wilson | Hamish Stuart

In February this year, this group embarked on a 14-date Australian tour to support the release of This World. The...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2020

Andrea Brachfeld: Brazilian Whispers

T Portinho | Lincoln Goines | Chembo Corniel | Jason Tieman | Bill O&Connell | Andrea Brachfeld | Harvie S | Roni Ben Hur

Antonio Carlos ‘Tom’ Jobim is the gift that keeps on giving – and where the flautist Brachfeld is concerned, his...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2020

Stellari String Quartet: Vulcan

Marcio Mattos | Philipp Waschmann | John Edwards | Charlotte Hugg

This latest project from veteran experimental violinist Philipp Waschmann (whose Bead label was an important factor in the development of...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2020

Ramon Lopez/Mark Feldman: Trappist-1

Now here’s an interesting configuration: violin-drums duos are rare events, but the flexibly lyrical downtown NY violinist Feldman and the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Majid Bekkas: Magic Spirit Quartet

Vocalist-instrumentalist Bekkas’ quartet’s mediation between North African Gnawa and Nordic sensibilities is trance-like for the most part, and the inclusion...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Frode Kjekstad: In Essence

An engaging guitarist with roots in the Grant Green-Pat Martino school of blues-inflected soul jazz and bop leads a trio...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020