Cuong Vu 4-Tet: Change In The Air

Luke Bergman | Bill Frisell | Cuong Vu | Ted Poor

Cuong Vu has long been associated with ‘eout there’ directions in jazz, as he most recently demonstrated in 2016 with...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2018

STUFF: Old Dreams New Planets

Joris Caluwaerts | Dreis Laheye | Andrew Claes | Mixmonster Menno | Lander Gyselinck

Belgium is a vibrant crossroads country, the double-nature of its improbable yet somehow ongoing Flemish-Walloon equilibrium seeming to encourage jazz...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2018

Bill O'Connell: Jazz Latin

Craig Handy | Lincoln Goines | Randy Brecker | Bobby Ameen | Andrea Brachfeld | Dan Carillo | Conrad Herwig | Bill O'Connell

The core band on this sashaying suite played together for decades in the late flautist Dave Valentin's band. They channel...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2018

Terje Rypdal: Bleak House

Tom Karlsen | Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Terje Rypdal | Terje Venaas | Christian Reim

Ah, to be 21, your Strat strapped on and a horn-laden band to big you up: and not to mention...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2018

Steve Khan: Public Access/Headline/Crossings

Dennis Chambers | Steve Khan | Manolo Badrena | Michael Brecker | Dave Weckl | Lani Groves | Vivian Cherry | Kurt Yahjian | Anthony Jackson | Janie Barnett

Once Columbia lost faith in fusion, Khan had to change his tune, literally. First he changed guitar, from Tele to...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2018

Tord Gustavsen Trio: The Other Side

Jarle Vespestad | Tord Gustavsen | Sigurd Hole

This album had me at hello, which in the case of The Other Side consists of the rolled, bluesily meditative...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2018

Harold López-Nussa: Un Día Cualquiera

Harold López-Nussa | Ruy Adrian López-Nussa | Gaston Joya

With all the uncertainty surrounding the relationship between the North and its Latin American neighbours, some musicians are offering their...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Mike LeDonne and the Groover Quartet: From the Heart

Slick and derivative are words which come to mind upon listening to this B3 organist's all-too-familiar soul-jazz combo, but the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Jay Phelps: Free As The Birds

Stacy Dillard | Nasheet Waits | Corey Wilcox | Rachael Cohen | Mark Lewandowski | Luana Soares Harf | Rodrigo ‘Pantera’ Rigaud | Emilia Mårtensson | Cecilia Stalin | Russell Hall

Canadian-born Londoner Phelps doesn't broaden his horizons into hip hop and soul as much as this album's vocoder-brushed opener ‘Everyone's...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2018

Reid/Kitamura/Bynum/Morris: Geometry Of Caves

Tomeka Reid | Joe Morris | Kyoko Kitamura | Taylor Ho Bynum

The standout moment on this interesting album, ‘It Is Deeper Than Is Wide’, could be something of a leitmotif for...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2018