Paula Rae Gibson/Paul Jolly: Vestige

Paula Rae Gibson's sparsely-textured duo with 33 Records boss/reedsman Paul Jolly might be the most directly expressive vehicle yet for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Earshot: Tell No One

Originally from the UK, the Berlin-based guitarist Robert York and impressively cool-school tenor saxophonist Arabella Sprot lead quartet Earshot on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Album Interview: Marshall Allen/Danny Ray Thompson/Roswell Rudd/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balázs Pándi: Ceremonial Healing

Jamie Saft | Balázs Pándi | Roswell Rudd | Danny Ray Thompson | Trevor Dunn | Marshall Allen

To call Marshall Allen and Danny Ray Thompson key figures in the Sun Ra Arkestra would be something of an...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2019

Dewa Budjana: Mahandini

On his latest album for MoonJune, this Indonesian fusion guitarist-composer's band goes full-throttle on a deft mix of indo-prog and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Chat Noir: Hyperuranion

Nils Petter Molvær | Nils Petter Molvaer | Michele Cavallari | Daniel Calvi | Luca Fogagnolo

The title refers to Plato's heavenly realm of ideal forms, which provides the loose concept behind Chat Noir's seventh album...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2019

Various Artists: Spiritual Jazz Vol.9: Blue Note Parts 1 & 2

Andrew Hill | Duke Pearson | Solomon Ilori | Joe Henderson | Pete La Roca | Eddie Gale | Freddie Hubbard

One of the pioneering labels in the history of jazz is a logical entry in Jazzman's excellent Spiritual Jazz compilation...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2019

Third Ear Band: Alchemy: Remastered and Expanded Edition

Dave Tomlin | Paul Minns | Glen Sweeny | Mel Davis | John Peel | Richard Coff

As uncategorisable today as they were back in the high hippie summers of 1968 and 1969, Third Ear Band had...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2019

Dominic Miller: Absinthe

Santiago Arias | Nicolas Fizsman | Manu Katché | Dominic Miller | Mike Lindup

‘Atmosphère! Atmosphère!’ as Arletty famously intoned in Marcel Carné's classic 1938 film Hôtel du Nord – Dominic Miller's second release...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2019

Dusko Goykovich: Slavic Mood

Andy Scherrer | Dusko Goykovich | Vince Bendetti | Joe Nay | Ben Thompson

The pioneering trumpeter-composer Dusko Goykovich was one of the first jazz musicians to leave his home in the former Yugoslavia...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Trish Clowes: Ninety Degrees Gravity

Trish Clowes | Ross Stanley | James Maddren | Chris Montague

Saxophonist-composer Clowes’ fifth album is an adventurous and enjoyable expansion of interests and ideas. On one hand she is further...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019