Lage Lund: Terrible Animals

Tyshawn Sorey | Sullivan Fortner | Larry Grenadier | Lage Lund

Lund's credentials are gold plated: Juillard, Berklee and a Fulbright scholarship seem to point inevitably toward jazz's glittering prizes. Yet...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2019

Bridges with Seamus Blake: Continuum

Jesper Bodilsen | Anders Thorén | Espen Berg | Seamus Blake | Hayden Powell

American heavyweights teaming up with lesser-known Europeans rarely blend as neatly as Seamus Blake does with the Norwegian-based trumpet and...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2019

The Dudley Moore Trio: Have Some Moore!

Pete McGurk | Dudley Moore | Chris Karan | Jeff Clyne

This 2CD special edition culls material ranging from Moore's first 1961 EP to a previously unissued track from a 1977...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2019

Tommaso Starace Harmony Less Quartet: Narrow Escape

Ruben Bellavia | Tommaso Starace | Dave O'Higgins | Davide Liberti

Milan-born and UK-educated saxophonist Tommaso Starace makes his devotion to hard bop pretty clear on Narrow Escape, but it's no...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019

Tom Cawley: Catenaccio

Fini Bearman | Tom Cawley | Chris Higginbottom | Gareth Lockrane | Robin Mullarkey

Insiders might clock that this album's title names the 1950s/60s football swerve toward tight, sweeper-backed defensive tactics – the unenlightened...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019

Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems

Vijay Iyer | Craig Taborn

Taborn's recent astounding solo piano gig at the Vortex confirmed what many of us have argued for some time: he...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2019

Steph Richards: Take The Neon Lights

Steph Richards | James Carney | Sam Minaie | Andrew Munsey

Steph Richards is a young Brooklyn-based, Canadian trumpeter-composer whose already found her niche working under titans of experimental music such...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Wandering Monster

Sam Quintana | Calvin Travers | Aleks Podraza | Ben Powling | Tom Higham

This may be their debut album, but there's a maturity and generosity in each others' musical company that makes Wandering...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2019

Clifford Jordan: Four Classic Albums

Almost all the sleeve-note writers on the original albums here make something of Jordan's apparent Sonny Rollins influence. Listened to...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: February/2020

Gwilym Simcock: Near and Now

Gwilym Simcock

This follow-up to Simcock's Mercury Prize-shortlisted 2011 ACT debut, the brilliant Good Days At Schloss Elmau, was penned primarily on...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2019