Tori Freestone Trio: El Mar de Nubes

Tim Giles | Dave Manington | Tori Freestone

Tenerife's highlands and sea-of-clouds coastline are spiritual homes for the imaginative British saxophonist Tori Freestone, who took a break there...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2019

Bill Evans: Evans In England

Marty Morell | Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez

This selection of material recorded at Ronnie's may well be the best posthumous Evans discovered by Resonance, but I can...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2019

Babelfish: Once Upon A Tide

Barry Green | Brigitte Beraha | Chris Laurence | Paul Clarvis

Babelfish is one of the most rewarding and creatively fecund modern jazz quartets about. Fired by the notion that music...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2019

Lester Young: Blue Lester

Unlike the Monk reviewed above, this is a slightly eccentric selection, so unless you're after just a few representative tracks,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2019

Red Kite

Trond Frønes | Bernt André Moen | Even Helte Hermansen | Torstein Loftus

Blame it on Motorpsycho, but the hard rock forged in Birmingham, the Surrey delta and Hendrix's visionary soul truly lives...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2019

Album Interview: Elephant9: Psychedelic Backfire I

Torstein Lofthus | Nikolai Hængsle | Ståle Storløkken

Many moons ago I wandered into a humble cafe and was met by the waitress saying: “I had that Jon...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2019

Q4: Uphill Struggle

The new one by this all-sax quartet, with compositions by ex-Itchy Fingers Nigel Hitchcock and Tini Thomsen, contains everything from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound: Quartet and Quintet Albums with Roy Haynes

Eric Dolphy | Booker Little | Freddie Hubbard | George Duvivier | Roy Haynes | George Tucker | Richard Wyands | Oliver Nelson | Ron Carter | Jaki Byard

This well produced 2CD set with some fine Francis Wolff iconography combines Dolphy's first three albums under his own name...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019

Blossom Dearie: The Adorable Blossom Dearie

Well-put-together 3CD set collects Dearie's early Parisian work, plus some mid-1950s US quartets, but focuses on work with husband Bobby...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2019

Dadisi Komolafe: Hassan's Walk

Dadisi Komolafe | Sonship Theus | Eric Tillman | Roberto Miranda | Rickey Kelly

Tom Albach's Nimbus West label was the home for seminal early 1980s west coast jazz of a Coltranian persuasion, and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2019