Jason Palmer: Rhyme And Reason

Matt Brewer | Jason Palmer | Kendrick Scott | Mark Turner

Improvising musicians have long adapted each other’s songs to create new work, and this album is an invigorating example of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

Andrew Cyrille: Lebroba

Andrew Cyrille | Bill Frisell | Wadada Leo Smith

Cyrille is one of the key figures in the history of the drums in improvised music insofar as he has...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio & Verneri Pohjola: Ancestry

Scott McLemore | Verneri Pohjola | Porgrimus Jónsson | Sunna Gunnlaugs

Mr and Mrs McLemore (Sunna Gunnlaugs and Scott McLemore) are two important figures on the Icelandic jazz scene, with the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019

Chris Potter: Circuits

Linley Marthe | James Francies | Chris Potter | Eric Harland

Well, this album puts some distance between the three ECM albums Potter recorded in recent years and, on top of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019

Joe McPhee & Hamid Drake: Keep Going

Joe McPhee | Hamid Drake

Throughout a career lasting half a century, Joe McPhee has explored a multiplicity of strategies for improvisation – from original...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2019

Joe Lovano: Trio Tapestry

Carmen Castaldi | Joe Lovano | Marilyn Crispell

If you played this spaciously exploratory album without investigating its origins, you might disrespectfully ponder if Joe Lovano had moved...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2019

John Coltrane: 1963: New Directions

Jimmy Garrison | Roy Haynes | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones | John Coltrane

It took the name John Coltrane, who may have died in 1967 but whose influence still shapes the sound of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019

John Lewis and Sacha Distel: Afternoon In Paris

Distel’s fine guitar playing took a back seat after this celebrated 1956 session with MJQ members, plus Barney Wilen, (and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Barry Guy/Peter Evans: Syllogistic Moments

Barry Guy | Peter Evans

One of the great elder statesmen of European improvised music, Guy has done some of his best work in orchestral...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

Misha Tsiganov: Playing With The Wind

Matt Brewer | Alex Sipiagin | Dan Weiss | Misha Tsiganov | Seamus Blake

Russian pianist Tsiganov, now resident in New York, must arguably be one of the most brilliant musicians on the planet....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2019