Chantler/Noble/Wright: Atlantis

Stockholm-based synth player John Chantler and his free improv trio of British drummer Steve Noble/ saxophonist Seymour Wright offer very...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Don Grolnick: Nighttown

Randy Brecker | Dave Holland | Marty Ehrlich | Joe Lovano | Don Grolnick | Steve Turre | Bill Stewart

Don Grolnick pretty much reached the top of his profession as a first-call New York studio musician in the 1970s...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2020

Lee Morgan: Here's Lee Morgan

Albert Heath | Wynton Kelly | Eddie Higgins | Wayne Shorter | Frank Strozier | Paul Chambers | Lee Morgan | Clifford Jordan | Art Davis | Bob Cranshaw

Taped for the Vee Jay label in 1959/60 – that is between such Blue Note classics as Candy and The...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2020

Album Interview: Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons

Michael Bease | Steve Davis | Lew Soloff | Christian McBride | James Burton | Doug Purviance | Carl Maraghi | Ron Blake | Warren Wolf | Geoffrey Keezer

A great contemporary bassist, McBride has also become an important educator and advocate for both the artform and African-American culture...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2020

Sarah Vaughan: The Complete Columbia Singles As & Bs 1949-53

Jimmy Jones | Sarah Vaughan | Miles Davis | Bennie Green

Released in 2018, Acrobat’s impressive 2CD anthology Sarah Vaughan – The Early Years 1944-48 brought together 49 tracks which Vaughan...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2020

Karen Sharp Trio: Another Place

Simon Thorpe | Colin Oxley | Karen Sharp

Sharp is a busy presence on the wider jazz scene these days. Her quartet with pianist Nikki Iles tours regularly...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2020

Noemi Nuti: Venus Eye

Chris Eldred | Noemi Nuti | Gareth Lockrane | Emiliano Caroselli | Tom Herbert

This follow-up to her acclaimed 2015 debut on Ubuntu, Nice to Meet You, sees vocalist, instrumentalist and composer Noemi Nuti...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2020

Last Dream of the Morning: Crucial Anatomy

Mark Sanders | John Edwards | John Butcher

When Butcher, Edwards and Sanders released the album Last Dream Of The Morning in 2017, it was, somewhat improbably, the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2020

Falkner Evans: Marbles

Ron Horton | Steve Nelson | Belden Bullock | Ted Nash | Falkner Evans | Michael Blake | Matt Wilson

The Oklahoma-raised Falkner Evans’s crisp professionalism and economy of style reflect early years playing Dylan-influenced rock and touring with western-swing...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2020

Erlend Apneseth: Fragmentarium

Fragmentarium Hubro ‘Nordic exotica’ could be a way of describing the Hardanger fiddler-composer Erlend Apneseth’s seductive otherworldly mix of sampling...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020