Trygve Seim: Helsinki Songs

Trygve Seim | Kristjan Randalu | Markku Ounaskari | Mats Eilertsen

As a youngster, Trygve Seim was more interested in football than the saxophone. Then his dad played him a Jan...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2018

Barb Jungr & John McDaniel: Float Like A Butterfly: The Songs Of Sting

Barb Jungr | John McDaniel

This follow-up to their 2016 collaboration exploring the work of The Beatles, Come Together, sees the duo of Jungr and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2018

Gwyneth Herbert: Letters I Haven&t Written

Gwyneth Herbert | Sam Burgess | Ned Cartwright | Rob Luft | Corrie Dick

This collection of self-penned songs from Gwyneth Herbert, album number seven following her brilliant 2013 release The Sea Cabinet, coincides...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2018

Benny Golson: Four Classic Albums

A who's who of the hard-bop scene in 1957-58, these four Golson albums (Modern Touch, New York Scene, Other side...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Joey Baron/Robyn Schulkowsky: Now You Hear Me

For many, one drum solo is more than enough, so a whole album of drum duos might have scant appeal,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

Jack Wilkins: Windows

Guitar trios need some element of excitement or originality to sustain interest over a full album and the paltry 35...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2018

Romanovská Tichý Hrubý

Petr Tichý | Anna Romanovská | Michal Hrubý

This remarkable Czech winds-and-string strio's debut album lays a feast of a table of the unexpected before us. Hrubý's ‘Ach...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: October/2018

Chet Baker: Live in London Vol. 2

Jim Richardson | Tony Mann | Chet Baker | John Horler

When the first volume of Jim Richardson's informal recordings of Chet Baker playing at the Canteen in London in 1983...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2018

Johnny Griffin and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis: Four Classic Albums

No less essential than the Golson reviewed above, this is one of the great two-tenor partnerships of the same era,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Now Vs. Now: The Buffering Cocoon

Sasha Masakowski | Jason Lindner | Steve Wall | Justin Tyson | Natasha Diggs | Panagiotis Andreou

Jason Lindner's two-decade evolution from brainiac NYC keyboardist to synth lord has been fascinating to witness, not least as his...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: October/2018