Joshua Trinidad: In November

Joshua Trinidad | Jacob Young | Ståle Liavik Solberg

As good an example as any of a fruitful transatlantic creative exchange. Furthermore, this is an endorsement of perhaps a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2018

Alan Benzie Trio: Little Mysteries

The standard of Scottish jazzers is generally pretty high and the pianist Alan Benzie, a Berklee alumnus and the first...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Deirdre Bradshaw: Smoocherama: DB with the Les Capstick Trio

Deirdre Bradshaw | Lennie Ringwood | Les Capstick | Stan Goodmayes

Deirdre Bradshaw trailed a lot of epithets: “The Astrud Gilberto of Dagenham”, “Becontree's Very Own Anita O'Day” and “The Ella...

Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: May/2018

Album Interview: Zhenya Strigalev: Blues for Maggie

Linley Marthe | Zhenya Strigalev | Federico Dannemann | Eric Harland

If you're looking to the current London jazz scene for the type of quirkily colourful characters that graced yesteryear, you...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Branco Stoysin: Above the Clouds

This London-based, Serbian guitarist's mellifluous lyricism draws on Brazilian, jazz and his native folk music, switching through various guitars on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

HBH Trio with Julian Priester: Signals from the Mind

Avant-garde pianist David Haney, guitarist David Badja and classically-schooled bassist Jorge Hernaez are joined by the veteran Chicagoan trombonist Julian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Don Ellis: Three Classic Albums Plus How Time Passes/New Ideas/Essence/Mingus Dynasty

Don Ellis | Milcho Leviev | Glenn Ferris

On the 1950s and early 1960s New York jazz scene it seemed as if the word ‘ubiquity’ had been invented...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2018

Omri Ziegele/Yves Theiler/Dario Sisera Where's Africa?: Going South

Dario Sisera | Omri Ziegele | Yves Theiler

The power of three is well to the four here, mostly because Yves Theiler's strident keyboard bass and synths summon...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2018

Aka Moon: Constellations Box

Usha Rajagopalan | George-Elie Octors | Takashi Yamane | DJ Grazzhoppa's | Khaled Aljaramani | Nedyalko Nedyalkov | George van Dam | Chander Sardjoe | Bo Van der Werf | Stéphane Galland

For the last quarter of a century, Belgian trio Aka Moon have managed to pull off the considerable feat of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2018

William Hooker Trio: Remembering

The veteran percussionist raises a rowdy fire-music kerfuffle in the company of brooding double-bassist Damon Smith and guitarist Ava Mendoza,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018