Dominic Ashworth: Psyche

Derek Nash | Brian Iddenden | Mick Foster | Andy Cleyndert | Dominic Ashworth | Chris Gower | Nick Milward | Digby Fairweather | Craig Milverton | Nick Kacal

Ashworth often records for other leaders, notably Fairweather, but seldom fronts his own albums, so this release is to be...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2019

Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson: Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson

Norman Granz signed Armstrong to his Verve roster and placed him with label hero Oscar Peterson's trio, augmented by Bellson,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019

John Coltrane: Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings

Donald Byrd | Freddie Hubbard | Jimmy Cobb | Wilbur Harden | Paul Chambers | Kenny Burrell | Art Taylor | John Coltrane | Louis Hayes | Tommy Flanagan

This impressive set could be seen as a response to the recent 1963: New Directions (see Jazzwise 238), but there...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2019

The Lie Detectors: Part III: Secret Unit

This duo of New York-based guitarist/Zorn collaborator Eyal Maoz and London-based drummer Asaf Sirkis lay down stimulating doses of free-jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Beck Hunters: Has It Been Found?

Mick Beck | Anton Hunter | Johnny Hunter

The list of free-jazz bassoonists is not a very long one. In fact, other than Karen Borca, who played with...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2019

Human Feel: Gold

Chris Speed | Jim Black | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Andrew D'Angelo

Seattle-raised reeds-player Andrew D'Angelo met saxophonist Chris Speed and drummer Jim Black in high school, and formed the Human Feel...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019

Phillip Johnston & The Coolerators: Diggin Bones

He's performed both in cinema and theatre, but saxophonist Phillip Johnston's sax-organ trio, that includes The Necks bassist Lloyd Swanton,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Mike Nock: Ondas

Jon Christensen | Mike Nock | Eddie Gomez

Pianist Mike Nock, born in New Zealand but now a long established pillar of the Australian jazz scene, had a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2019

Scott McLemore: The Multiverse

The third album from drummer Scott McLemore is awash with guitar atmospherics: a duo pairing from Iceland (Hilmar Jensson) and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

VEIN featuring Norrbotten Big Band: Symphonic Bop

Florian Arbenz | Michael Arbenz | Thomas Lähns

More and more recordings are embracing postmodernism, most particularly in the use of collage. First pioneered by the modernists, but...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2019