Colin Fisher: Garden of Unknowing

Colin Fisher

The audio cassette had its heyday during the 1970s-90s, and seems like a slightly pathetic, if loveable, artefact looking at...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Hubert Laws: Morning Star/Carnegie Hall/The Chicago Theme

Don Sebesky | Hubert Laws | Bob James | Ralph McDonald | Billy Cobham | Eric Gale | Stanley Clarke | Ron Carter | George Benson

Laws is a case of a talented musician who is hard to categorise and who is largely misunderstood. To jazz-funk...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Jonathan Finlayson: 3 Times Round

Craig Weinrib | Matthew Mitchell | Jonathan Finlayson | John Hebert | Steve Lehman | Brian Settles

A longtime associate of Steve Coleman, trumpeter Finlayson’s two CDs to date, Moment And The Messsage and Moving Still, impressed....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Koichi Matsukaze Trio and Toshiyuki Daikotu: Earth Mother

Another of BBE’s reissues of rare 1970s Japanese jazz, this focuses on saxophonist Matsukaze (who takes an inventive trio trip...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Sara Dowling: Two Sides Of Sara

Sarah Dowling is a London-based ex-virtuosic cellist who got the bug for time-honoured Ella-influenced jazz singing about a decade ago....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Yelena Eckemoff: Better Than Gold And Silver

The Russian pianist-composer’s chamber jazz-ish take on verses from the book of Psalms (two CDs, with and without vocal) is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Bobby Broom & The Organi-Sation: Soul Fingers

Filipe Fraga | Sergio Pires | Sammy Figueroa | Matt Jones | Bobby Broom | Andrew Toombs | Kobie Watkins | Justin ‘Justefan’ Thomas | Ben Paterson | Luciano Antonio

When a 20-year-old Bobby Broom debuted on the GRP label as a leader in 1981, it signalled a star was...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Eddie Prévost & Ken Ikeda: The Whole Moon Rests In A Dewdrop On The Grass

Eddie Prévost | Ken Ikeda

Eddie Prévost was, of course, a key figure in the birth of European improv: a young drummer working the London...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Javon Jackson: For You

Jeremy Manasia | McClenty Hunter | David Williams | Javon Jackson

The tenor saxophonist matured during the 1980s renaissance in acoustic modern jazz, but cut his teeth with masters from an...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Myra Melford's Snowy Egret: The Other Side of Air

Ron Miles | Tyshawn Sorey | Liberty Ellman | Stomu Takeishi | Myra Melford

Forming in 2012, followed by a self-titled debut in 2015, Snowy Egret is accessibly leftfield composer-pianist Myra Melford’s most recent...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019