Various Artists: Kubrick's Music-Selections From The Films Of Stanley Kubrick

Toots Thielemans | Vera Lynn | Jack Hylton | John Coltrane | Oscar Peterson Trio | Ray Noble

The iconic American-born film director Stanley Kubrick’s use of music soundtrack as contrapuntal, and often incongruous to the screen images...

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

Mako Sica/Hamid Drake: Ronda

Przemyslaw Krys Drazek | Brent Fuscaldo | Hamid Drake | Chaetan Newell

The meeting of Mako Sica, a Chicago trio of multi-instrumentalists who fall artfully between genres and Hamid Drake, one of...

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

Paula Rae Gibson/ Kit Downes: Emotion Machine

The sense of close integration between the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter Paula Rae Gibson and her new partner Kit Downes, on piano...

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

Tom Ward/Adam Fairhall: Susurrus

Moving between London and Manchester’s new-generation experimental jazz scenes, the reedsman Tom Ward and the acoustic pianist/accordionist Adam Fairhall are...

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

Christian McBride's New Jawn

Christian McBride | Nasheet Waits | Josh Evans | Marcus Strickland

Bassist McBride is a kind of latter-day Pied Piper, a jazz activist as well as a virtuoso player, constantly teaching,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Ida Sand with Stockholm Underground: My Soul Kitchen

Singer Ida Sand hires an early version of Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit known as the Stockholm Underground to pump out...

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

Cyrus Chestnut: Kaleidoscope

Cyrus Chestnut | Eric Wheeler | Chris Beck

It’s well known that Chestnut is a gutsy, groovy, gospel-influenced virtuoso, expert at enlivening the existing traditional piano-trio approach. He’s...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Django Reinhardt: The Best of Django Reinhardt

Well, if you forgive the absence of ‘Nuages’ this comes close to a definitive Reinhardt anthology, and if you only...

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

Denny Seiwell Trio: Boomerang

A run-of-the-mill organ-guitar-drums trio from LA led by the veteran drummer Danny Seiwell, a session drummer and founder member of...

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

Eric Dolphy: Eric Dolphy Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Sessions

J.C. Moses | Eric Dolphy | Richard Davis | Eddie Kahn | Bobby Hutcherson | Clifford Jordan | Garvin Bushell | Prince Lasha | Woody Shaw | Sonny Simmons

Originally recorded for Alan Douglas’ Douglas label, Eric Dolphy Jazz Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Sessionsis a deluxe, limited-edition...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019