John Coltrane: Blue Train + Giant Steps

Steve Davis | Billy Higgins | Eric Dolphy | Freddie Hubbard | Wynton Kelly | Jimmy Cobb | Curtis Fuller | Sonny Rollins | Paul Chambers | Kenny Drew

And still they come… Jazz Images, again. Coltrane once more. Another pairing of classic albums served up with a further...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2019

Avishai Cohen/Yonathan Avishai: Playing The Room

Avishai Cohen | Yonathan Avishai

This is a gorgeous set - another delicate exploration of brass tonality, restrained improv eloquence and quiet empathy from the...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2019

Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet: Witchi-Tai-To

Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Bobo Stenson | Palle Danielsson

The Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet only made two albums – the other one was Dansere – but as Garbarek himself...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2019

Phil Minton/John Butcher/Gino Robair: Blasphemous Fragments

Gino Robair | John Butcher | Phil Minton

Vocalist Phil Minton has one of the most easily recognisable repertoires of extended techniques in improvised music. He pulls out...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2019

Stan Getz/Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt: For Musicians Only

Percy Heath | Stan Getz | Herb Ellis | Connie Kay | John Lewis | Sonny Stitt | Ray Brown | Dizzy Gillespie | Stan Levey

OK, here it is; the ultimate speed-demon slug-out between two of bebop's leading lights and the then king of the...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2019

Ethan Iverson Quartet/Tom Harrell: Common Practice

Ethan Iverson | Eric McPherson | Tom Harrell | Ben Street

Former Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson notes that when he first came to New York from Wisconsin as an 18...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2019

Sloth Racket: Dismantle Yourself

Cath Roberts | Sam Andreae | Anton Hunter | Johnny Hunter | Seth Bennett

Over the past half-decade saxophonists Cath Roberts and Dee Byrne have built one of the most exciting experimental and free-improv...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2019

Bill Evans: Live At Birdland, New York City

Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Teddy Kotick | Scott LaFaro

The absolute classics in this batch are combined on the Jazz Images reissue, not only the advertised Waltz For Debby...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2019

Mette Juul: Change

This Danish singer's angle on standards and originals is a dryly reflective one without any frills, and the cool understatement...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Martin Speake and Alex Maguire: Feathers

A wonderfully virtuosic, simpatico sax-piano duo between two widely-experienced UK musicians that's a 2CD thesis on lightning counterpoint, sonic clarity...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019