Stephanie Richards: Fullmoon

Richards' intriguing mutant trumpet vistas get live sampled, roughenedup and regurgitated during a set that unsettles the template originally put...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Shake Stew: Rise and Rise Again

A promising young Austrian septet led by 30-year-old bassist Lukas Kranzelbinder have Shabaka Hutchings guesting on two tracks, and they...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Mark Springer: Diving

Mark Springer

It's a long time since pianist Mark Springer first stepped out from his role as musical brain behind early 1980s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2018

Peggy Lee: Four Classic Albums

This is music from Peggy's great period, 1956-61, topped off with Quincy Jones' peerless arrangements for Blues Cross Country, but...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Joey Alexander: Eclipse

Joshua Joshua Redman | Reuben Rogers | Eric Harland | Joey Alexander

Even Mozart, the quintessential musical child prodigy, couldn't lay claim to two Grammy-nominated albums by the age of 14. Bali-born...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2018

Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Willisau) 1991 Studio

Gerry Hemingway | Mark Dresser | Anthony Braxton | Marilyn Crispell

Originally issued in 1993 in a 4CD version boasting multiple weaves through Braxton's compositions, recorded both live and in the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: July/2018

Ornette Coleman: The Atlantic Years

Billy Higgins | Eric Dolphy | Freddie Hubbard | Ed Blackwell | Jimmy Garrison | Don Cherry | Charlie Haden | Ornette Coleman | Scott LaFaro

Although Beauty Is a Rare Thing, a ‘complete’ Coleman Atlantic 6CD package, came out in 1993 to considerable acclaim (it...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

Mike Gibbs Band: Symphony Hall, Birmingham 1991

John Clark | Chris Pyne | John Scofi eld | Mike Gibbs | John Rooke | Tony Coe | Stuart Brooks | John Taylor | John Barclay | Julian Argüelles

Mike Gibbs celebrated his 80th birthday with two nights at the Vortex in September of last year directing a largely...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Gerry Mulligan: Four Classic Albums (Third Set)

Built around three of Mulligan's classic sextet albums from 1955-56, the band mainly featuring Jon Eardley and Bob Brookmeyer, this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2018

Jon Hassell: Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1)

Jon Hassell

Now 81-years-old, Jon Hassell's quirkily trance-like and ethereal musical collages have always been ahead of their time; so much music...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018