Benjamin Boone/Philip Levine: The Poetry Of Jazz

John Lauffenburger | Philip Levine | Atticus Boone | Brian Hamada | Greg Osby | David Aus | Karen Marguth | Max Hembo | Chris Potter | Asher Boone

The title is clear enough in intent and the strategies deployed on The Poetry Of Jazz are not unfamiliar. Saxophonist...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2018

Espen Eriksen Trio with Andy Sheppard: Perfectly Unhappy

Andy Sheppard | Espen Eriksen | Lars Tormod Jenset | Andreas Bye

Andy Sheppard has been guesting live wherever possible with the Espen Eriksen Trio since 2016. He blends perfectly into this...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2018

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints: Scandal

Joey Baron | Lawrence Fields | Linda May Han Oh | Joe Lovano | Dave Douglas

There's something of Coleman Hawkins about Lovano: like the Hawk, he can swing and sing and mainline the blues in...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2018

Kamasi Washington: Heaven And Earth

Ronald Bruner | Tony Austin | Brandon Coleman | Carlitos Del Puerto | Dwight Trible | Thundercat | Ryan Porter | Gabe Noel | Kahlil Cummings | Jonathan Pinson

The runaway success of 2015's The Epic and the subsequent wave of global touring made Washington into something of a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2018

Ella Fitzgerald: The Legendary Rome Concert

Most of the famous 1958 Rome concert has been around for ages on various issues, most recently on Gambit, but...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2018

Z-Country Paradise: Live in Lisbon

Recorded live at the Jazz em Agosto Festival in 2016, this no-wave avant-jazz quintet's imposing line-up includes experimental reeds-man Frank...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Ben Webster: Ben Webster & Associates

Roy Eldridge | Jimmy Jones | Les Spann | Coleman Hawkins | Budd Johnson | Jo Jones | Ray Brown | Ben Webster

With hindsight, not all of Leonard Feather's pronouncements have stood the test of time. However, when he wrote on the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2018

Derek Bailey & Company: Klinker

Derek Bailey | Simon H Fell | Will Gaines | Mark Wastell

In the years leading up to this live set recorded at The Klinker in South London during the summer of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: June/2018

John Tilbury/Keith Rowe/Kjell Bjorgeengen: Sissel

John Tilbury | Keith Rowe | Kjell Bjørgeengen

Over a span of 50 minutes, John Tilbury, Keith Rowe and Kjell Bjørgeengen remember Bjørgeengen's wife Sissel, who died in...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: June/2018

Peter Bruun's All Too Human: Vernacular Avant-Garde

Peter Bruun | Marc Ducret | Simon Toldam | Kasper Tranberg

Thirty-something Danish drummer Peter Bruun has worked with some real heavyweights, including Evan Parker, Tim Berne and Django Bates. Here...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2018