Jim Mullen: Volunteers

Mark Nightingale | Jim Mullen | Steve Fishwick | Alan Barnes | Gareth Lockrane | Mick Hutton | Gareth Williams | Julian Siegel | Tristan Maillot

We're used to hearing guitar supremo Mullen in small groups, often with organ at their heart. This time he's chosen...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2019

Gabriel Ferrandini: Volúpias

Hernâni Faustino | Gabriel Ferrandini | Pedro Sousa

Ferrandini, Faustino and Sousa are all vital players on Lisbon's impressive free-jazz scene, but these cuts see them each temper...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: August/2019

Mosambique: Big City Moves

Led by keyboardist Ivan Blomqvist, Mosambique are an expansive sounding quintet capturing a head-nodding yet unspectacular Oslo-based melting pot of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Kenny Werner: Solo In Stuttgart

Kenny Werner

An absorbing set from Werner, which for this writer inevitably brings to mind an equally impressive but totally different solo...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2019

Dave Stryker: Eight Track III

This guitarist's working B-3 trio joins forces with vibraphonist Stefon Harris for a greasy zero-angst MOR workout on some 1970s...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

Joanna Wallfisch: Far Away From Any Place Called Home

Chris Tordini | Jesse Elder | Arthur Vint | Joanna Wallfsch

I was a big fan of Joanna Wallfisch's 2016 album Gardens In My Mind and the magical soundworld it inhabited....

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2019

Faith Brackenbury: KnifeAngel

Oli Hayhurst | Martin Speake | Rob Luft | Faith Brackenbury | Will Glaser | Alex Maguire

Brackenbury's prolific, post-motherhood output over the past decade finds inspiration here in Alfie Bradley's ‘Knife Angel’, a giant sculpture of...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2019

Marc Ducret: Lady M

Léa Trommenschlager | Catherine Delaunay | Sylvain Darrifourcq | Rodrigo Ferreira | Liudas Mockunas | Joachim Florent | Marc Ducret | Bruno Ducret | Régis Huby | Sylvain Bardiau

It says on the sleeve that guitarist Marc Ducret's Lady M is ‘d'après Macbeth de William Shakespeare’, but I confess...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2019

Woody Shaw Quintet: Basel 1980

Tony Reedus | Mulgrew Miller | Carter Jefferson | Woody Shaw | Victor Lewis | Larry Willis | Stafford James

The history books like to have us believe that, until the arrival of Wynton Marsalis and co. in the early...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2019

Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto: Love, Love

Umbra Zindiko | Kamau Eric Gravatt | Ron McClure | Ndugu Leon Chancler | Bill Connors | Hadley Caliman | Mguanda David Johnson | Bayete | Nyimbo Henry Franklin | Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto

Quite simply the funkiest thing ECM has ever released. Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto was, along with Bennie Maupin, the Herbie...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2019