Polyorchard: Sextet/Quintet

Good luck to those up for listening to North Carolina-based upright bassist David Menestres' Polyorchard's extremely cryptic brand of abstract...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Tony Kofi and the Organisation: Point Blank

Simon Fensby | Tony Kofi | Peter Cater | Pete Whittaker

Hard bop, Monk and organpowered soul-jazz are among prizewinning UK saxophonist Tony Kofi's favourite inspirations. Untypically, for his music-of-now Brit-jazz...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2018

Sidsel Endresen/Jan Bang: Hum

An experimental Norwegian duo which fi nds ingenious Punkt remixer Jan Bang electronically sculpting textures from samples of Norwegian vocal...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Thumbscrew: Ours/Theirs

Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Tomas Fujiwara

Ours and Theirs, simultaneously released CD recordings by leading New Yorkbased improvising guitarist Mary Halvorson's regular trio Thumbscrew, developed from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

The Giles Thornton Jazz Orchestra: Be In Today

Liane Carroll | Ewan Gilchrist | Finn Bradley | James Maltby | Matt Grenz | Rosie Bullen | Magnus Pickering | Tom Dunnett | Mike Walker | Chris Saunders

“Go big or go home”, the popular saying counsels. Composer-arranger Giles Thornton, recording his crowdfunded debut while still a student...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2018

Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: The Mathematics Of War

Sam Byrd | Rodger Coleman

The three feral epics contained on The Mathematics Of War – Coleman and Byrd's follow-up to last year's superb Who...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: September/2018

Keely Smith: The Keely Smith Collection 1949-62

Smith's death last December ought to have prompted a wave of reissues, but aside from a Louis Prima compendium, it...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Erroll Garner: Nightconcert

Kelly Martin | Erroll Garner | Eddie Calhoun

Originally recorded by Philips in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, only eight of the 16 tracks presented here have ever been...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Don Ellis and his Orchestra: Shock Treatment/Autumn

Don Ellis | Frank Strozier | Ira Sculman | John Klemmer | Steve Bohanon

Don Ellis moved quickly to adapt to the changing times in the 1960s. Attracting attention with a big band that...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2018

James Gilmore: Bag of Tricks Vol 2

James Gilmore, a guitarist from North Carolina, prescribes a musical recipe for chaos, one that sees his quartet navigate a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018