Zach Brock/Matt Ulery/Jon Deitmyer: Wonderment

Rated young violinist Brock lives up to his promise, co-leading a playful Chicagoan acoustic jazz trio with influences ranging from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Barb Jungr: Bob, Brel And Me

Jamie Safir | Jenny Carr | Rod Youngs | Gabriella Swallow | Barb Jungr | The Fourth Choir | Mark Lockheart | Christoph Bracher | Pete Horsfall | Mike Lindup

Bob, Brel And Me is a carousel of styles and varied arrangements. To state the obvious, the Bob is Dylan...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: October/2019

Rebecca Nash/Atlas: Peaceful King

Rebecca Nash | Sara Colman | Nick Walters | Chris Mapp | Thomas Seminar Ford | Matt Fisher | Nicholas Malcolm

Drawing on players from Entropi, Paradox Ensemble and other projects she plays in, pianist Rebecca Nash has assembled a like-minded...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: October/2019

Phil Ranelin: Collected Works 2003-19

Pharoah Sanders | Pablo Calagero | Jinshi Ozaki | Don Littleton | Mahesh Balasooriya | Danny Grissett | Zane Musa | Donald Bailey | Roger Glenn | Calvin Keys

Trombonist Ranelin is best known as the co-founder of the Tribe label, one of the revered flagships of independent often...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2019

João Lencastre's Communion 3: Song(s) of Hope

João Lencastre | Eivind Opsvik | Jacob Sacks

Portuguese drummer and composer João Lencastre's first visit to New York in 2002 - where he came into contact with...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2019

Gary Burton: The New Quartet

Gary Burton | Harry Blazer | Abraham Laboriel | Michael Goodrick

This ECM Touchstone reissue from 1973 documents perhaps the least known of Burton's famous quartets, the first of which, with...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2019

Nigel Price Organ Trio: Live At The Crypt

Vasilis Xenopoulos | Ross Stanley | Matt Home | Nigel Price

This is best described as an example of what Nigel and Vasilis do so well in so many playing situations,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2019

Remote Viewers Trio: Notes Lost In A field

With a lengthy discography going back to 1999, the current incarnation of this unit with saxophonists David Petts, Adrian Northover...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Michael Eaton: Dialogical

Brooklyn-based saxophonist Michael Eaton's quartet delivers an assertive, yet uneven, collage of fusion, avant-classical and angular jazz minimalism in spite...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Tini Thomsen's Maxsax: Shift

Mark Haanstra | Tini Thomsen | Tom Trapp | Miles Bould | Joost Kroon | Nigel Hitchcock

In recent years the German baritone sax specialist Katharina ‘Tini’ Thomsen has made a name for herself playing in the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019