Danketsu 9: Towards A Walk In The Sun

Kelly Coats | Jason Adams | Mallory Soto | Ang Wilson | Patrick Shiroishi | Ken Moore | Noah Guevara | Dylan Fujioka | Pauline Lay

Led by saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi, this nonet's uninterrupted 47-minute live composition runs likes a tapestry of tonal rivulets, meandering and...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: September/2019

John Etheridge: Twenty: The Best of Sweet Chorus

John Etheridge | Malcolm Creese | Christian Garrick | Andy Crowdy | Dave Kelbie

Ah, such sweet surprises from an Etheridge project dedicated to the timeless magic of Stephane Grappelli. As Etheridge points out,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2019

Dudu Pukwana/Han Bennink/Misha Mengelberg: Yi Yole

Han Bennink | Misha Mengelberg | Dudu Pukwana

Here's a hugely enjoyable snapshot of a fertile period in the history of the Instant Composers Pool when leading Dutch...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2019

Paul Desmond: First Place Again

Percy Heath | Paul Desmond | Jim Hall | Connie Kay

Paul Desmond and Jim Hall collaborated on a whole series of ‘mood jazz’ albums on the RCA label in the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

John Abercrombie/Marc Johnson/Peter Erskine: Live At The Nightstage, Boston

Marc Johnson | John Abercrombie | Peter Erskine

Abercrombie was too modest a musician to have a ‘pomp’, but hellfire, on this live recording he was in, let...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2019

George Cables: All Smiles

Essiet Essiet | Victor Lewis | George Cables

Cables' beaming expression on the album cover says it all. A series of health setbacks culminating in an above the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019

Kang Tae Hwan/Midori Takada: An Eternal Moment

Not an exactly relaxing album, the first 41-minute track of shed-building percussion, birdlike twittering and atonal random honking is something...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Sensaround: heart/noise

Protean experimentalist Raymond MacDonald is alternately smokily noir-ish and Evan Parker-like on this trio collab that's a gritty post-apocalyptic tapestry...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Per Mathisen: Sounds of 3 Edition 2

Per Mathisen | Ulf Wakenius | Gary Husband

Per Mathisen (aka the Norwegian Bass Viking) recorded a first edition of Sounds of 3 in 2016 with a different...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Lettuce: Elevate

The Lettuce ensemble are all about phat funk and hip hop-derived beats echoing bands such as Tower for Power and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019