Duke Ellington: Live at Ciro's Los Angeles, CA, 1947

These eight short AFRS broadcasts are a useful documentary component of the Ellington archive, but with boxy sound, and –...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019

Keith Jarrett: La Fenice

Keith Jarrett

Since his Radiance album and his Tokyo Solo DVD of 2002, Jarrett began breaking away from the notion of a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Feb/2019

Nick Malcolm: Real Isn't Real

Emily Wright | Ric Yarborough | Nick Malcolm | Alexander Hawkins | Will Harris | Lauren Kinsella | Marie Lister | Josienne Clarke | Olie Brice

Stylised jazz sub-genres hold little sway for many of the newer generation of improvising musicians and Nick Malcolm is a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Smells Funny

Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen | Ellen Brekken | Ivar Loe Bjørnstad

Our chums at Classic Rock dubbed this trio ‘Sabbath Jazz’. And if you stopped reading there, woe betide you tin-eared...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Feb/2019

Common Objects: Skullmarks

Lina Lapelyte | Lee Patterson | Rhodri Davies | John Butcher | Angharad Davies | Pat Thomas

Scattered among the colonial and shamanic bric-a-brac of Oxford’s cavernous Pitt Rivers Museum, Rhodri Davies’ sextet tease out their alien...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: Feb/2019

Brom: Sunstroke

Yaroslav Kurilo | Anton Ponomarev | Dimitry Lapshin

Moscow based power-jazz trio Brom are a group that push against musical boundaries and allow such diverse genres as noise,...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: Feb/2019

King Crimson: Meltdown: Live in Mexico City, 2017

Tony Levin | Mel Collins | Jeremy Stacey | Robert Fripp | Pat Mastelotto | Jakko Jakszyk | Bill Rieflin | Gavin Harrison

According to Fripp’s typically gnomic liner notes, there have been just four definitive formations of King Crimson since it first...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019

Eli Keszler: Stadium

Mariel Roberts | Will Lang | Genevieve Murphy | Eli Keszler | Laura Kenner

There's a striking interiority to Stadium, the ninth solo album from New York City-based percussionist and sound artist Eli Keszler....

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: Feb/2019

Caroline Scott: Khoalesce

Caroline Scott | Kevin Glasgow | John Turville | Duncan Eagles

Like Lorraine Baker, Scott is a Trinity Laban graduate who has cut her teeth at Oliver’s bar and has the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Feb/2019

François Houle/ Alexander Hawkins/Harris Eisenstadt: You Have Options

Brooklyn drummer Eisenstadt and London pianist Hawkins, who met in the Convergence Quartet, join the classical-schooled Vancouver clarinetist Houle for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019