Pat Metheny: Watercolors

Dan Gottlieb | Eberhard Weber | Lyle Mays | Pat Metheny

He looks from the cover, bucktoothed and smiley, hair awry and flares unfeasibly fanned. It’s hard to imagine this is...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2019

Simon Nabatov/Barry Guy/Gerry Hemingway: Luminous

Keenly atmospheric collective free-improv from a virtuosic line-up that gets the balance just right between pianist Nabatov’s unpredictable melody-driven twists...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Dave Holland Quintet: Seeds of Time

Marvin 'smitty' Smith | Julian Priester | Dave Holland | Kenny Wheeler | Steve Coleman

Between 1983 and 1987, Dave Holland recorded three albums with his quintet – Jumpin’ In, Seeds of Time and The...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019

John Surman/John Warren: The Brass Project

Chris Pyne | Malcolm Griffiths | David Stewart | John Marshall | Steve Waterman | Stuart Brooks | Henry Lowther | John Warren | Andrew Waddicor | John Surman

Somehow this fine album has previously eluded me, despite possessing much Surman from before and since. Though there is no...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2019

The Roger Beaujolais Italian Trio: Barba Lunga

Alessandro Pivi | Roger Beaujolais | Giacomo Dominici

Vibes player Roger Beaujolais now has a long beard and celebrates the fact in the title of his new album...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2019

Joe McPhee/John Butcher: At The Hill Of James Magee

Joe McPhee | John Butcher

Drawing parallels between music and the environment in which it is made can sometimes be inappropriate. But ‘The Hill’ in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019

Binker Golding & Elliot Galvin: Ex Nihilo

Binker Golding | Elliot Galvin

Collaborations with Evan Parker notwithstanding, the sax-drums duo of Binker and Moses have never quite committed to the art of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2019

Daniel Herskedal: Voyage

Helge Andreas Norbakken | Eyolf Dale | Daniel Herskedal | Bergmund Waal Skaslien

You wouldn’t normally associate the tuba with words such as serene, fragile, understated or even flexible. In jazz, at least,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Keith Jarrett: Standards, Vol. 1

Keith Jarrett | Gary Peacock | Jack DeJohnette

This is part one of a trilogy of albums recorded in January 1983 by Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette – the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019

Ran Blake/Claire Ritter: Eclipse Orange

Claire Ritter | Kent O'Doherty | Ran Blake

By coincidence, this new recording of Blake appears almost simultaneously with the archive material of his duo with Jeanne Lee...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2019