Bobby Previte/Jamie Saft/Nels Cline: Music from the Early 21st Century

Ralph Alessi | Tineke Postma | Dan Weiss | Kris Davis | Matthew Brewer

After accumulating a series of excellent albums with bassist Steve Swallow, Saft and Previte ring the changes with the introduction...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2020

Giorgi Mikadze: Georgian Microjamz

Georgian Giorgi Mikadze is joined by influential guitarist David ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski in a microtonal keys-guitar quartet that very effectively, as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Jeff Parker & The New Breed: Suite For Max Brown

Paul Bryan | Ruby Parker | Jay Bellrose | Josh Johnson | Nate Walcott | Katinka Kleijn | Rob Mazurek | Jeff Parker | Makaya McCraven | Jamire Williams

I love everything about this album from Chicago multi-instrumentalist and Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker, which is dedicated to his mother,...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2020

Magnus Broo Trio: Rules

The Swedish trumpeter Broo, best known for ace Nordic jazzers Atomic, approaches the Great American Songbook with a fresh impetus;...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

Arthurs, Khroustaliov, Sartorius: Hangkerum

Julian Sartorius | Isambard Khroustaliov | Tom Arthurs

This new release on Lisbon experimental label Clean Feed is the first time these three leading improvisers have recorded together...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: March/2020

John McLaughlin/Shankar Mahadevan/Zakir Hussain: Is That So?

Zakir Hussain | Shankar Mahadevan | John McLaughlin

McLaughlin calls this album his “labour of love”. Certainly it is quite unlike anything in his already considerable discography –...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2020

Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Entity

Natsuki Tamura | Briggan Krauss | Ches Smith | Joe Fiedler | Stomu Takeishi | Dave Ballou | Oscar Noriega | Herb Robertson | Tony Malaby | Andy Laster

Sixtieth birthdays in Japan are special and are celebrated as kanreki, when one cycle of life is at an end...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2020

Pablo Held: Ascent

Jonas Burgwinkel | Pablo Held | Nelson Veras | Jeremy Viner | Veronica Morscher | Robert Landermann

Ascent comes on the heels of 2018’s Investigations, which was Held’s tenth album. On it, he brings Brazilian guitarist Nelson...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2020

Rachel Sutton: A Million Conversations

Roland Perrin | Rachel Sutton | Stuart Brooks | Paul Robinson | Michael Curtis Ruiz

While some debut albums can occasionally be guilty of shoehorning in more fillers than a Christmas stocking, a track list...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2020

Nils Landgren & Jan Lundgren: Kristallen

Nils Landgren | Jan Lundgren

Swedish trombonist (and vocalist) Nils Landgren’s musical world has long stretched stylistically from jazz deep into R&B and funk; Landgren’s...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2020