Various Artists: Sunny Side Up

An overview of the coolly infectious sounds coming out of Melbourne's underground post-acid jazz scene with an emphasis on spiritual...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

McCoy Tyner: Enlightenment

Azar Lawrence | Alphonse Mouzon | McCoy Tyner | Joony Booth

In 1972, Orrin Keepnews signed McCoy Tyner to his Milestone label, and Sahara reestablished his career that had lost direction...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Jack DeJohnette: New Directions

Lester Bowie | Eddie Gomez | John Abercrombie | Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette joined Manfred Eicher's ECM label in 1972 – at the end of his stint with Miles Davis' Bitches...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2019

Sounds Of Liberation: Unreleased (Columbia University 1973)

Dwight James | Monnette Sudier | William Brister | Khan Jamal | Billy Mills | Omar Hill | Byard Lancaster

Based in Philadelphia at the height of the avant-garde black expression movement of the early 1970s, Sounds Of Liberation were...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: September/2019

Pigfoot: Pigfoot Shuffle

Liam Noble | James Allsopp | Chris Batchelor | Paul Clarvis

This new album from London jazz eccentrics Pigfoot is a greatest hits collection drawn from their gig series at the...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: September/2019

Bushman's Revenge: Et Hån Mot Overklassen

Rune Nergaard | Gard Nilssen | Even Helte Hermansen

Where once rock musicians got it together in the country, this is the sound of instrumental rock being taken apart...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2019

Paul Bley/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian: When Will The Blues Leave

Gary Peacock | Paul Motian | Paul Bley

A previously unissued concert recorded by Swiss Radio from a less documented period of Bley's activity. He had been notably...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2019

Michael Janisch: Worlds Collide

Michael Janisch | Andrew Bain | John Escreet | Rez Abassi | Clarence Penn | Jason Palmer | John O'Gallagher | George Crowley

Janisch enjoys considerable kudos as the founder and head of the dynamic independent record label Whirlwind Recordings, but that should...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2019

Patricia Barber: Higher

Patrick Mulcahy | Neal Alger | Katherine Werbiansky | Jim Gailloreto | Patricia Barber | Jon Deitemyer

Whether she's breathing new life into Ovid's Metamorphoses (on her 2006 album Mythologies), paying tribute to one of her songwriting...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2019

Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen

Teppo Mäkynen | Timo Lassy

Lassy and Mäkynen were key figures in the upsurge of Finnish jazz around 2005 that added to the notion of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019