Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles

Freddie Hubbard | Herbie Hancock | Ron Carter

Along with Maiden Voyage, Empyrean Isles represents Herbie Hancock’s finest work for Blue Note. Empyrean Isles is Hancock’s fourth album...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019

Celloman: Arpezzato Cello

Ivan Hussey, formerly a big-time rock session musician, is also a cello-playing superhero known as Celloman. Employing bow-less guitar techniques...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Duncan Eagles: Citizen

David Preston | Dave Hamblett | Matt Robinson | Duncan Eagles | Max Luthert

For close to a decade, saxophonist-composer Duncan Eagles has been a guiding influence on the structure-stretching cooperative trio Partikel, a...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2019

Phil Ranelin: Vibes From The Tribe

Barabara Huby | Ron English | Daud Abdul Kahafiz | Kenny Cox | George Davidson | Raph Armstrong | Buddy Budson | Wendell Harrison | Ken Thomas | Faruq Hanif Bey

With collectable vinyl being reissued on a weekly basis it is becoming increasingly difficult to determine a really essential classic...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019

Wendy Eisenberg: Its Shape Is Your Touch

Wendy Eisenberg

Guitarist, banjo-player, poet and vocalist Wendy Eisenberg divides her musical output between art song and angular improvisation. Here she focuses...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: April/2019

Jan Garbarek/Kjell Johnsen: Aftenland

Kjell Johnsen | Jan Garbarek

Both these albums capture the subtleties of tonal inflection, timbral nuance and majestic expressivity of Garbarek’s saxophones in a demanding...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019

Larry Grenadier: The Gleaners

Larry Grenadier

Longstanding associate of Brad Mehldau, Mark Turner and Wolfgang Muthspiel, to name but a few, Grenadier has the kind of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019

Paul Bley: Ballads

Gary Peacock | Mark Levinson | Paul Bley | Barry Altschul

One of ECM’s current Touchstones reissues celebrating their 50th anniversary, this actually predates the formation of the label by a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2019

Vanessa Rubin: The Dream Is You: Vanessa Rubin Sings Tadd Dameron

Carl Allen | Vanessa Rubin | Kenny Davis | John Cowherd

While any new recording by the illustrious Vanessa Rubin should immediately pique the interest of vocal jazz fans, the singer’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2019

Quinsin Nachoff's Flux: Path of Totality

Alan Ferber | Quinsin Nachoff | Mark Duggan | Matt Holman | Orlando Hernandez | Matt Mitchell | Dan Urness | Carl Maraghi | Ryan Keberle | David Binney

The New York-based, Canadian saxophonist-composer Quinsin Nachoff’s second album for his quartet Flux has its roots in a progressive jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019