Nubiyan Twist: Jungle Run

Tony Allen | Jonny Enser | Nubiya Brandon | Pilo Adami | Tom Excell | Joe Henwood | Mulatu Astatke | Luke Wynter | Oli Cadman | Nick Richards

Forged in Leeds, living in London and recording in rural Oxfordshire, Nubiyan Twist embody British jazz’s current outward perspective. Jazz...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2019

Yonathan Avishai: Joys and Solitudes

Yoni Zelnik | Yonathan Avishai | Donald Kontomanou

“I saw at some point that I become more expressive with less notes,” says Israeli-French pianist Yonathan Avishai, whose new...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2019

Orrin Evans & The Captain Black Big Band: Presence

Anwar Marshall | Troy Roberts | Stafford Hunter | Orrin Evans | Brent White | Josh Lawrence | David Gibson | Madison Rast | Jason Brown | Todd Bashore

Philadelphia’s Captain Black Big Band are a jubilantly risk-embracing collective formed from the city’s sharpest jazz players – organised (though...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2019

Fred Hersch Trio: Trio ‘97 @ The Village Vanguard

Tom Rainey | Fred Hersch | Drew Gress

It took pianist Fred Hersch 18 years to headline at the Village Vanguard after arriving on the New York jazz...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019

Chicago Edge Ensemble: Insidious Anthem

Jeb Bishop | Dan Phillips | Krzysztof Pabian | Mars Williams | Hamid Drake

This second album from the Chicagoan quintet – follow-up to 2017’s Decaying Orbit – finds bandleader and guitarist Dan Phillips...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2019

SHL: #2

Leeds guitarist Nik Svarc, drummer-percussionist Steve Hanley and keyboardist Martin Longhawn join the dots between jazz-rock and Hammond funk, discovering...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures: Monday Nights Vol. 1

Gabby Abularach | John Clark | Jon Faddis | Shunzo Ohno | Gil Evans | Delmar Brown | Darryl Jones | Alex Sipiagin | Matthew Garrison | Alden Banta

Gil Evans’s son, Miles, now in his fifties, has periodically kept alive the legacy of his father, and specifically of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2019

Art Blakey & Duke Jordan: Les Liaisons Dangereuses + Des Femmes Disparaissent

Sonny Cohn | Benny Golson | Clark Terry | Tommy Lopez | Lee Morgan | Charlie Rouse | Jymie Merritt | Eddie Khan | Duke Jordan | Johnny Rodriguez

It’s worth pointing out that Duke Jordan’s soundtrack to Les Liaisons Dangereuses now makes up only half of the original...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Behn Gillece: Parallel Universe

Having played for over a decade on the New York scene, this young vibraphonist carries the torch for a tradition...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson

Just like the above album this is identical to the Essential Jazz Classics issue reviewed in 2012, and while not...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019