Svein Finnerud Trio: Plastic Sun

Espen Rud | Bjørnar Andresen | Svein Finnerud

Though a virtual unknown outside Norway in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Svein Finnerud was one of the country's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

Taku Sugimoto: h

Taku Sugimoto | Cristián Alvear

In a blindfold test, you might assume h to be a carefully organised piece by a composer immersed in Morton...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: July/2018

Guillaume Barraud Quartet: Arcana: The Indo-Jazz Sessions

The French Bansuri flautist infuses his energetic compositions, based around Indian Raga, with meter-chopping Mahavishnu-influenced electric jazz but thankfully without...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Steve Gadd Band

Duke Gadd | Walt Fowler | Steve Gadd | Kevin Hays | Jimmy Johnson | Michael Landau

The big change is Hays coming in for the sublime Larry Goldings. But panic not, the change is more evolutionary...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2018

Grant Green: Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry's

Grant Green | Greg ‘Vibrations’ Williams | Emmanuel Riggins | Gerald Izzard | Ronnie Ware

Once again, hats off to Resonance for their diligent archival research that reaches into places other album researchers fail to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

Ella Fitzgerald & Her Fellas: The Complete 1942-1953 Vocal Duets

This collection of Ella with other singers, cut for Decca, works surprisingly well. It's good to have her work with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2018

Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær featuring Eivind Aarset & Vladislav Delay: Nordub

Vladislav Delay | Sly Dunbar | Eivind Aarset | Robbie Shakespeare | Nils Petter Molvær

Presentations of the union of Jamaica's “riddim twins” Sly & Robbie and Norway's jazz-tech champions, trumpeter Nils Pettar Molvær and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2018

Omri Mor: It's About Time

Avishai Cohen | Karim Ziad | Omri Mor | Donald Kontomanou | Michel Alibo | Maalem Abdelkebir Merchane

Jerusalem-born pianist Omri Mor is best known for being a member of the bassist Avishai Cohen's trio from 2011. As...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Iiro Rantala: Mozart, Bernstein, Lennon

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen | Iiro Rantala

Recorded at the Gala Concert of last year's Jazzahead! summit, this genre-crossing concert is a somewhat unconventional showcase for Rantala's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

Jeremy Pelt: Noir En Rouge: Live in Paris

Vicente Archer | Victor Gould | Jeremy Pelt | Jacquelene Acevedo | Jonathan Barber

At last – a live recording by Pelt's touring band. It's still a great shame that the trumpeter's earlier wonderful...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2018