Frode Haltli: Border Woods

This Norwegian accordionist-composer's quietly enchanting experiments in texture and tonality (using traditional Scandinavian instruments) lend an otherworldly dimension to his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Melissa Aldana: Visions

Leland Whitty | Matthew Tavares | Julian Anderson-Bowes | Matthew Chalmers

The three-year gap between the 2013 Thelonious Monk Prize winner Melissa Aldana's fifth album, Visions, released on the East coast...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

John Ghost: Airships Are Organisms

Rob Banken | Elias Devoldere | Jo De Geest | Wim Segers | Lieven Van Pée | Karel Cuelenaere

Belgian group John Ghost, led by the Ghent-based guitarist and composer Jo De Geest, return with this cryptically-titled release, which...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2019

Wendy Kirkland: The Music's On Me

This Chesterfield-based vocalist-pianist-lyricist has a plucky character, convincingly wording instrumental standards and singing jazz with a pronounced English accent accompanied...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Veronica Swift: Confessions

Veronica Swift | Benny Green | Carl Allen | Emmet Cohen | Russell Hall | Kyle Poole | David Wong

The daughter of the jazz singer, educator and author Stephanie Nakasian and the late jazz pianist Hod O'Brien, Veronica Swift...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2019

Maria Farantouri/Cihan Türkoğlu: Beyond The Borders

The Greek protest singer's compositions for sextet using traditional instruments are ethereal, trance-like twists on her roots-based traditions as well...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Bill Connors: Of Mist And Melting

Jan Garbarek | Bill Connors | Gary Peacock | Jack DeJohnette

It was around 1974 that the ex-Return to Forever guitarist Bill Connors made the change from electric to acoustic, and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Alice Zawadzki: Within You Is A World Of Spring

Lucy Nolan | Fred Thomas | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Peggy Nolan | Rob Luft | Alice Zawadzki | Laura Senior | Simmy Singh | Hyelim Kim

London-based singer, violinist and pianist Alice Zawadzki gifts us a second album both tender in spirit and defiantly anti-genre, hooking...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2019

Paul Combs: Unknown Dameron

Paul Combs | Bill Cunliffe | Kamau Kenyatta | Alex Aspinall | Richard Sellers | Jeff Denson | Alex Frank | Melonie Grinnel | Derek Cannon | Danielle Werts

This is a record that invites two different approaches to reviewing. Firstly, it presents a dozen unknown, or relatively obscure,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2019

Steve Cole: Gratitude

Anyone up for a smooth jazz revival? Saxophonist Steve Cole and his well-oiled retro funk-fusion ensemble actually offers a more...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019